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VGHF-MAG. Magazine Library

 Classification
Identifier: VGHF-MAG
This collection represents the magazines available in the Video Game History Foundation Research Library.

Found in 243 Collections and/or Records:

Games Business

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMESBUSINESS
Abstract

Games Business was a bimonthly trade journal published by Imagine Media, covering the internal business of the game industry. The magazine was marketed specifically to game retailers and focused on business and marketing strategies and executive leadership. Each issue featured interviews with notable leaders in the industry. The magazine ran for around two years before being discontinued in November 2000.

Dates: Publication: December 1998 – November 2000

Computer Gaming World

 Series
Identifier: MAG-CGW
Abstract

Computer Gaming World (abbreviated CGW) was one of the longest-running computer game magazines. Originally published by Golden Empire Publications, Inc., CGW was sold to Ziff Davis, Inc. in November 1993.

After a 25-year run, CGW was relaunched as Games for Windows: The Official Magazine, officially licensed by Microsoft, and continued for another 17 issues.

Dates: Publication: November 1981 – April 2008

Game Informer

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEINFORMER
Abstract Game Informer is the longest-running monthly American video game magazine. Game Informer was originally a promotional magazine owned by the game retailer FuncoLand, which was reorganized as GameStop in December 2000. For many years, the magazine was tied to GameStop's reward program; it was decoupled from the rewards program and relaunched as a standlone subscription in March 2024 before being discontinued shortly after in August 2024. The magazine was acquired and revived by...
Dates: Publication: Fall 1991 –

Game Hits

 Series
Identifier: MAG-GAMEHITS
Abstract Game Hits was a free tabloid-style magazine distributed at game stores in the United States in the mid-1990s. The magazine featured short descriptions of games with large screenshots and art assets, presumably to entice store customers, with an emphasis on providing game hints and cheat codes. The magazine ran from 1993 until at least April 1996; it is unclear how many issues of Game Hits were published. Game Hits was independently published by New Hampshire-based Connell...
Dates: Publication: 1993–1996?

Official Xbox Magazine

 Series
Identifier: MAG-OXM
Abstract

Official Xbox Magazine (abbreviated OXM) was the officially licensed Xbox magazine in the United States.

Towards the end of the magazine's run, starting on August 2019, the American edition of OXM was replaced with the British edition of OXM, effectively merging the two magazines. Both editions of OXM were discontinued in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic; the final issue is dated May 2020.

Dates: Publication: November 2001 – May 2020

Multimedia and internet magazines, assorted

 Collection
Identifier: MAG-MULTIMEDIA
Abstract

Through the 1990s and early 2000s, some publishers produced short-lived magazines covering multimedia software and internet culture. Rather than borrowing their style from computer magazines, these publications were often presented like lifestyle or culture magazines.

Dates: Publication: 1986–2000

Odyssey Adventure

 Series
Identifier: MAG-ODYSSEY
Abstract Odyssey Adventure (originally titled Odyssey² Adventure) was the official quarterly magazine for the Magnavox Odyssey² game console. Issues were short (12 pages or less) and typically focused more on the Odyssey² platform and community rather than new games. The magazine ran for seven issues, slightly less than two years. The magazine was also referred to as the Odyssey² Adventure Club Magazine or Odyssey...
Dates: Publication: Winter 1982 – Summer 1983

PC Gamer (US)

 Series
Identifier: MAG-PCGAMERUS
Abstract PC Gamer is the longest-running American computer game magazine, first published in 1994. The magazine was originally spun off from Game Players PC Entertainment, a computer game magazine by GP Publications. When British publisher conglomorate Future acquired GP Publications in 1994, they relaunched PC Entertainment as the US edition of their UK magazine PC Gamer. In recent years, the American and British versions of PC Gamer have starting sharing a substantial amount of...
Dates: Publication: May 1994 –

PC Accelerator

 Series
Identifier: MAG-PCXL
Abstract

PC Accelerator (abbreviated PCXL) was a computer game magazine targeted to men, in the style of men's magazines such as Maxim. PCXL is mostly notable for its pervasive crude, sexist content, which was objectionable even in its own time.

A one-off revival issue of PC Accelerator was published by PC Gamer in Fall 2007.

Dates: Publication: September 1998 – June 2000

MCV

 Series
Identifier: MAG-MCV
Abstract MCV (originally The Market for Computer & Video Games) is a long-running game developer trade magazine, originally published weekly and first printed in September 1998. After the magazine was sold to Biz Media in 2019, it was renamed MCV/Develop, reviving the name of the defunct trade magazine Develop from the same publishers and moving from a weekly to monthly format.MCV was originally published in both the United...
Dates: Publication: September 1998 –