Dimension-3 Volume 1 Issue 2 (June 1995)

GameFan was a magazine started by Tim Lindquist, Greg Off, George Weising, and Dave Halverson in September 1992. After a little over 2 years into production, a few members broke off and created Dimension-3, a short-lived magazine released by Dimension Publishing that focused on PC games and the 3DO console. Tim Lindquist was on GameFan for the first 10 issues, then he became Production Director for Dimension-3. Greg Off worked on Game Fan until issue #24. He started off as an Editor and doing some production, and then was the distribution manager until issue 23. He was one of the Senior Editor on Dimension-3. David Winding started off as the Advertising Director for the first 7 issues of GameFan, then he was the sports editor until issue 27. He became the Editor-in-Chief for Dimension-3.

This supposedly was their chance at going independent for themselves. I don’t know if Dimension Publishing insisted on the name, Dimension-3, but it seemed to really hurt the magazine. I bought one issue on newsstands, but I almost didn’t because I didn’t understand what “Dimension-3” meant. Was it the 3rd in a series? Was it the 3rd publication with the same name? I had no problem with their content, but I thought the name was bad. Dimension-3 only ran 7 issues, and the group published another mag at the same time, Dimension PS-X but only released two issues. They eventually saw success when they renamed this magazine PS Extreme, which lasted many years. I really like this group of David Jon Winding, Greg Off, Tim Lindquist, Eric Winding, Mark Winding, and Joe Sutton. Most of this same group made another short-lived magazine, Q64.