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Online magazines with defunct print editions

  • Electronic Gaming MonthlyElectronic Gaming Monthly hit newsstands in 1988, born under the banner of U.S. National Video Game Team's Electronic Gaming Monthly, published by Sendai…
  • NMENME was bought for £1,000, just fifteen minutes before it was due to close for good. That was 1952, when a London music promoter named Maurice Kinn spotted a…
  • Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment Weekly hit newsstands on the 16th of February 1990, with a pitch that felt almost audacious in its simplicity: a weekly consumer guide that…
  • The Sporting NewsThe Sporting News published its first edition on the 17th of March, 1886, in St. Louis, selling for five cents. For decades it stood as the only national…
  • Paste (magazine)Paste magazine began not with a glossy cover shoot or a record label partnership, but with a CD tucked inside a print issue.
  • Dragon (magazine)Dragon shipped its final printed issue, number 359, in September 2007. That closed a run that started three decades earlier, when the magazine backed a young…
  • Dungeon (magazine)Dungeon magazine arrived in 1986 with a simple promise: every page would contain an adventure. No reviews, no editorials, no letters section crowding the…
  • The Diplomat (magazine)The Diplomat began life on the other side of the world from where it operates today. Founded in Australia in 2001 by Minh Bui Jones, David Llewellyn-Smith…
  • PC WorldPC World landed on newsstands in March 1983, just months after being announced at the COMDEX trade show in November 1982.
  • Life (magazine)Life magazine arrived on newsstands on the 23rd of November, 1936, and within four months it was selling more than one million copies a week.
  • Black Gate (magazine)Black Gate launched in October 2000 with a slogan that announced its intentions plainly: "Adventures in Fantasy Literature." A glossy print magazine from New…