DPG Media will cease publishing the technology site’s hardware information site on January 1, 2024. The site will be retired in early 2024. The site will be stocked with content until the end of the year.

“At the end of 2019, we decided to shift our focus almost entirely from hardware information to Tweakers,” Quinn Krigens, deputy director of DPG Special Interest Media and co-founder of HWI, explains to Tweakers. Overlapping target groups, duplicate activities (similar articles were written by both editors) “The ongoing challenge of delivering a full range of technology content on both platforms are the main reasons for this. As a result of this strategy, we have now reached, after four years, the point where we have decided to launch Hardware Information and it is no longer allowed to continue as a separate title.”

Hardware Info was founded in 1999 by Koen Crijns, Frank Everaardt and Eric van Ballegoie. Since 2016, the platform has been part of Tweakers’ parent company DPG Media, which was then called Persgroep Online Services. Under the new publisher, the technology platforms increasingly collaborated behind the scenes, for example with a joint testing laboratory, and after several years of working independently, the review editorial board of HWI was finally merged with the Tweakers staff in 2020. After the merger of the editorial board, the Device information in a “very reduced form”, with more emphasis on news. During this period, DPG Media also ceased publishing Hardware Information Magazine. The last issue of the magazine was published at the end of 2020.