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- GamesRadar+GamesRadar+ did not arrive as a single creation. It assembled itself over years from pieces of other things, absorbing rival sites, inheriting reader…
- NewsaramaNewsarama started not as a website, not as a publication, but as a series of forum posts on the Prodigy message boards in mid-1995.
- Marie ClaireMarie Claire, the French women's fashion magazine, has been reaching readers since 1937 - nearly nine decades of covers, controversies, and reinvention.
- Tom's HardwareTom's Hardware began in 1996 as a one-man operation called Tom's Hardware Guide, founded in Canada by Thomas Pabst. At the time, the internet was still…
- Computer and Video GamesComputer and Video Games landed on British newsstands in November 1981, the first magazine in the United Kingdom dedicated entirely to video games.
- PlayStation: The Official MagazinePlayStation: The Official Magazine began its life under a different name and a fiercely independent identity. Launched in September 1997 with Final Fantasy…
- Mix (magazine)Mix magazine launched in 1977 not as the glossy professional publication it would become, but as a tabloid-style directory of recording services.
- PlayStation Official Magazine – UKThe first issue of the Official UK PlayStation Magazine hit newsstands in November 1995. This launch coincided exactly with the release of the original…
- PC GamerPC Gamer arrived in the United Kingdom in November 1993, at a moment when personal computing was still something of an enthusiast's pursuit.
- Future plcFuture plc began life in 1985 in Somerton, Somerset, a market town of fewer than 5,000 people, with a single magazine about the Amstrad home computer.
- Retro GamerRetro Gamer launched in January 2004 as the first commercial magazine devoted entirely to retro video games. Britain had no shortage of gaming publications…
- Edge (magazine)Edge magazine launched in October 1993, born from the vision of Steve Jarratt, a long-time video games journalist who had already helped create several…
- The WeekThe Week was born from a simple frustration: there was too much news, and too little time to read it all. Jolyon Connell, who had worked for the Sunday…
- Future USFuture US started life not in New York or San Francisco, but in Greensboro, North Carolina, where a struggling video game magazine publisher called GP…
- Hyper (magazine)Hyper magazine launched in Australia in 1993 with a founding editor who had just walked away from a rival publication under new ownership.
- Space.comSpace.com launched on the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the 20th of July 1999, a deliberate choice that announced exactly what this website…