Curated playlist
Future plc
- GamesRadar+GamesRadar+ 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…
- 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. A fan named Mike Doran was simply collecting comic book news from around the early World Wide Web and…
- Marie ClaireMarie 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 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 finding its footing as a place for serious technical journalism. Pabst built a site…
- Computer and Video GamesUK magazine and website
- 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 VII on the cover, the publication known then as PSM: 100% Independent PlayStation…
- 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. The founders, David Schwartz, Penny Riker-Jacob, and Bill Laski, were operating out of San…
- PlayStation Official Magazine – UKVideo game magazine
- 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. Within a few years, both its British and American editions had become the best-selling PC games…
- Future plcBritish publishing company
- Retro GamerUK video game magazine
- Edge (magazine)UK video game magazine
- 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 Telegraph, launched the UK edition in 1995 with a format that was genuinely unusual.…
- 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 Publications was putting out a title called Game Players. In 1994, Future plc acquired…
- Hyper (magazine)Australian video game magazine
- 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 intended to be. Founded in New York City by former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs and Rich…