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IDG Communications, Inc

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1964    
  • Usage: 2022

Found in 540 Collections and/or Records:

GamePro's Celebrity Video Gamers, August/September 1991

 Item — Location: GamePro
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPRO-SPECIAL.CELEB
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These special issues of GamePro were published outside the magazine's normal publishing schedule and numbering scheme. They include issues for specific games, consoles, and subject areas.

This sub-series currently includes 10 special and supplemental magazines that were published between 1990–1993. Other special issues of GamePro have not been cataloged yet.

Dates: Publication: August/September 1991

GamePro's Handheld Video Games, Spring 1991

 Item — Location: GamePro
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPRO-SPECIAL.HAND1
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These special issues of GamePro were published outside the magazine's normal publishing schedule and numbering scheme. They include issues for specific games, consoles, and subject areas.

This sub-series currently includes 10 special and supplemental magazines that were published between 1990–1993. Other special issues of GamePro have not been cataloged yet.

Dates: Publication: Spring 1991

GamePro's Official Mortal Kombat Strategy Guide, 1992

 Item — Location: GamePro
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPRO-GUIDES.MK
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection includes every issue of GamePro magazine from May 1989–Winter 2011, as well as a number of special issues and strategy guides published throughout the magazine's run.

Dates: Publication: 1992

GamePro's Official NBA Jam Strategy Guide, 1994

 Item — Location: GamePro
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPRO-GUIDES.NBA
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection includes every issue of GamePro magazine from May 1989–Winter 2011, as well as a number of special issues and strategy guides published throughout the magazine's run.

Dates: Publication: 1994

GamePro's ProPlayer Series, Handheld Video Games, October/November 1991

 Item — Location: GamePro
Identifier: MAG-GAMEPRO-SPECIAL.HAND2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

These special issues of GamePro were published outside the magazine's normal publishing schedule and numbering scheme. They include issues for specific games, consoles, and subject areas.

This sub-series currently includes 10 special and supplemental magazines that were published between 1990–1993. Other special issues of GamePro have not been cataloged yet.

Dates: Publication: October/November 1991

Gamestar (US)

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMESTARUS
Abstract Gamestar was a short-lived adult-focused video game magazine by IDG Communications, the publishers of GamePro. The magazine was targered to adult men and featured coverage of movies, music, and electronics, in addition to video games and computer games. Like similar magazines like PC Accelerator, Gamestar was written from an edgy men's perspective that frequently sexualized women and included model photoshoots interspersed throughout the magazine.The magazine appears to have only...
Dates: Publication: 2004–2005?

Gamestar, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2004

 Item — Location: Gamestar (US)
Identifier: MAG-GAMESTARUS.V1I1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection includes all three known issues of Gamestar.

Content Note: Gamestar includes sexualized imagery and writing.

Dates: Publication: Summer 2004

Gamestar, Volume 1, Issue 2, November 2004

 Item — Location: Gamestar (US)
Identifier: MAG-GAMESTARUS.V1I2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection includes all three known issues of Gamestar.

Content Note: Gamestar includes sexualized imagery and writing.

Dates: Publication: November 2004

Gamestar, Volume 1, Issue 3, December/January 2005

 Item — Location: Gamestar (US)
Identifier: MAG-GAMESTARUS.V1I3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection includes all three known issues of Gamestar.

Content Note: Gamestar includes sexualized imagery and writing.

Dates: Publication: December/January 2005

Multimedia World

 Series
Identifier: MAG-MULTIWORLD
Abstract

Multimedia World is a spinoff of PC World focusing on multimedia hardware and software. The magazine paid special attention to multimedia games and CD-ROMs, as well as operating systems, music software, and anything adjacent to home computer media production.

Like its parent magazine, Multimedia World was owned by IDG Communications.

Dates: Publication: December 1993 – 1996?