Short answers, pulled from the story.
Four men named Tim Lindquist, Greg Off, George Weising, and Dave Halverson launched the publication called Diehard GameFan in September 1992. They chose to print their magazine on high-quality paper that cost more than standard glossy sheets used by competitors.
The September 1995 issue contained paragraphs filled with derogatory comments about Japanese people including a sentence referring to them as little Jap bastards. An official apology dated the 24th of August 1995 appeared in the October 1995 issue claiming a rogue employee had sabotaged the publication.
Editors selected winners for the annual Golden Megawards program starting in 1992 and continuing through 1996. The January 1993 issue listed Gunstar Heroes as the best game on the Genesis platform while the January 1995 edition crowned Yoshi's Island as the best SNES game of the previous year.
Staff members created the comic strip called The Adventures of Monitaur which drew inspiration from anime series. Discussions began in 1994 to produce a full-length animated movie produced by Dark Moon Productions Inc founded by Andrew Spencer and Gary Tucker alongside their sister entity DMP Multi-media.
Dave Halverson went on to publish Gamers' Republic after the original magazine ceased operations in December 2000. He later launched Play Magazine which consisted mostly of former GameFan and Gamers' Republic staff members before it survived for 97 issues until its publishing company filed for bankruptcy.