Existing paid subscribers (digital or physical) will be contacted in the next few days and provided with options for refunds or a fulfillment of their subscription with an alternative product.

"We've made the decision to shift away from print as part of a wider strategy change in our parent company UBM Tech, which is simultaneously shifting other print publications either to digital only or to website-specific content, orienting them to help support our growing community-centric events such as Game Developers Conference," the company said in a statement.

Though the magazine may be going away, its major research features, like the , will continue. This research will be conducted and published by Gamasutra editors.

It is not clear if Game Developer Magazine staffers were assigned to different positions within UBM Tech or laid off outright,, though contributor Brandon Sheffield wrote on today he is longer employed at the trade site.

When it closes this summer, the Game Developer Magazine will join the likes of as print publications to cease publication.