Dimension PS-X Volume 1 Issue 1 (November 1995)

Fondly remembered magazine made by some of the original Gamefan staff. 

After GameFan was out for a little over 2 years, 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 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. I've been tracking down a lot of their work, and I have been enjoying it:)

Great info. As a kid, I picked up the first issue of Dimension-PSX at a local EB and then never missed an issue (Dimension-PSX actually published 3 issues before changing names). I became a subscriber throughout their PS Extreme days and through the mid-2000s when it morphed into PSE2. PSE2 was a relaunch of the mag to reflect the move to PlayStation 2 coverage and it bizarrely switched to a large/oversized paper format, with lower quality paper and versus the thicker, glossy stock of PS Extreme. It also debuted at a lower price point than its predecessor. 
 

I believe that PS Extreme reaped some early success when it first launched, but the arrival of PSM and OPM magazines in the late 90s slowly eat their market share to the point where they attempted to better differentiate themselves in the PS2 era (to limited success perhaps). I’ll have to dig them up, but the magazine would eventually revert to the standard paper size and then quietly cease publishing without notice in 2005/2006. 
 

The primary staff of Dave, Gregg, and Zach Meston remained for the entirety of the magazine’s 10+ year run.  Their personal, creative, and up-front personalities gave the magazine a very cohesive tilt that always connected better to me than the more mainstream magazines. Every article was labeled by its writer, and the whole thing felt like it was sort of a family/group of friends that I took a  journey with during the 90s/2000s. 

This and Gamefan were my favorite gaming magazines and I’ll always remember the joy of cracking open a new issue. It was a great surprise to read through the Dimension-3 issues posted here and find the same staff and layouts as PS Extreme. Like a lost treasure found. 
 

I still have all of my old issues and I have no plans to ever part with them. 

Are these issues not 1-3 of PSExtreme?

Yup. Dimension PS-X rebranded itself to PS Extreme after three issues.  The Publisher/Editor (David Winding) mentioned the change in Issue “4” - or the “first” issue of PS Extreme, explaining that their competitor, the Sendai published “PS-X” magazine’s similar name was causing a case of mistaken identity at the newsstand, with some customers thinking they were buying Dimension when they were actually purchasing the competition.  Whether or not that is the whole truth or just an excuse to move away from the odd “Dimension” moniker is up for debate.