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Future plc

  • GamesRadar+6 minGamesRadar+ did not arrive as a single creation. It assembled itself over years from pieces of other things, absorbing rival sites, inheriting reader communities, and surviving lawsuits along the way. What started as a video game news and…
  • Newsarama7 minNewsarama started not as a website, not as a publication, but as a series of forum posts on the Prodigy message boards in mid-1995. A fan named Mike Doran was simply collecting comic book news from around the early World Wide Web and…
  • Marie Claire9 minMarie Claire, the French women's fashion magazine, has been reaching readers since 1937 - nearly nine decades of covers, controversies, and reinvention. It was born in France and targets upper-income, educated women aged 25 to 49. What…
  • Tom's Hardware4 minTom'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 finding its footing as a place for serious technical journalism. Pabst built a site…
  • Computer and Video Games3 minUK magazine and website
  • PlayStation: The Official Magazine4 minPlayStation: The Official Magazine began its life under a different name and a fiercely independent identity. Launched in September 1997 with Final Fantasy VII on the cover, the publication known then as PSM: 100% Independent PlayStation…
  • Mix (magazine)3 minMix magazine launched in 1977 not as the glossy professional publication it would become, but as a tabloid-style directory of recording services. The founders, David Schwartz, Penny Riker-Jacob, and Bill Laski, were operating out of San…
  • PlayStation Official Magazine – UK6 minVideo game magazine
  • PC Gamer8 minPC Gamer arrived in the United Kingdom in November 1993, at a moment when personal computing was still something of an enthusiast's pursuit. Within a few years, both its British and American editions had become the best-selling PC games…
  • Future plc6 minBritish publishing company
  • Retro Gamer5 minUK video game magazine
  • Edge (magazine)7 minUK video game magazine
  • The Week4 minThe 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 Telegraph, launched the UK edition in 1995 with a format that was genuinely unusual.…
  • Future US5 minFuture US started life not in New York or San Francisco, but in Greensboro, North Carolina, where a struggling video game magazine publisher called GP Publications was putting out a title called Game Players. In 1994, Future plc acquired…
  • Hyper (magazine)4 minAustralian video game magazine
  • Space.com4 minSpace.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 intended to be. Founded in New York City by former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs and Rich…

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