List of computer magazines

This is a list of magazines marketed primarily for computer and technology enthusiasts or users. The majority of these magazines cover general computer topics or several non-specific subject areas, however a few are also specialized to a certain area of computing and are listed separately.

General magazines
These publications appeal to a broad audience and usually include content about computer hardware and software and  technology news. These magazines could also be called technology magazines because of the large amount of content about non-computer consumer electronics, such as digital audio player and mobile phones.

Bi-monthly

Component Developer Magazine (CODE)

Monthly

APC (Australia)
Computer Shopper (UK)
Computer Shopper (US)
Digit (India)
PC/Computing
PC Magazine
PC Pro
PC World
PC Quest (India)
Pixel Addict (UK)
Wired (US)
iX (magazine) (Germany)

Fortnightly

c't (Germany, Netherlands)
Computeractive (United Kingdom)

Weekly

Computer Weekly (United Kingdom)
Computerra (Russia)
Computing (United Kingdom)
Micro Mart (United Kingdom)

Online-only
Datamation, previously in print 1957–1998, the first computer magazine. (United States)

Topic-specific magazines
These publications are marketed towards people who are interested in a specific topic of computing.

Amiga

Amiga Action (United Kingdom) (discontinued)
Amiga Active (United Kingdom) (discontinued)
Amiga Addict (United Kingdom)
Amiga Computing (United Kingdom, United States) (discontinued)
Amiga Format (United Kingdom) (discontinued)
Amiga Power (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

Macintosh

Call-A.P.P.L.E. (United States)
MacTech (United States)
MacFormat (United Kingdom)
MacLife (Germany)
MacLife, formally MacAddict (United States)
MacUser (United Kingdom)
Macworld (Australia, United States, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Spain, United Kingdom)

RISC OS/Acorn

Acorn User (United Kingdom) (discontinued)
Archive (United Kingdom)
The Micro User (United Kingdom) (discontinued)
Qercus (United Kingdom)

Web development

.net (United Kingdom)

Computer modification

Custom PC (United Kingdom)
Maximum PC (United States)
PC Extreme (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

Gaming

Internet

First Monday (Internet) (peer reviewed)
Internet Magazine (United Kingdom) (discontinued) 
Spider (Pakistan) (discontinued) 
Webuser (United Kingdom) (discontinued)

Business

eWeek (United States)
InformationWeek (United States)
InfoWorld (United States)

Music

Computer Music (United Kingdom)

Mobile computing

PC Today (United States)

Novice users

First Glimpse (United States)

1980s computers 
The following magazines cover 1980s home computers such as the Amiga, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum or Amstrad CPC. Most of these magazines are now discontinued as the computers they discuss are now out of production.

Partworks
The following magazines were published as partworks:

The Home Computer Advanced Course (United Kingdom) (1984–1985)
The Home Computer Course (United Kingdom) (1983–1984)
PC Ace (United Kingdom) (1999–2001)

Linux and open-source
The following magazines cover topics related to the Linux operating system (as well as other Unix based operating systems) and other forms of open-source/ free software. Some of these magazines are targeted at IT professionals (with an emphasis on the use of these systems in the workplace) whilst others are designed for home users.

Free Software Magazine (Internet)
Full Circle
Linux Format (United Kingdom)
Linux Gazette (Internet)
Linux Journal (United States) (shutdown August 7, 2019)
Linux Magazine (United Kingdom/Europe)
Linux Magazine (United States)
Linux User and Developer (United Kingdom)
Linux Voice (United Kingdom)
Linux Weekly News (Internet)
Open Source For You (India)

Sales
The following magazines cover computer, peripheral, software and service distribution, through all their aspects (marketing, strategy, channel, retail or wholesale).

Channel World, Belgium, Czech Republic, India, Netherlands
CRN Magazine, US, Europe and other countries
IT Bransjen, Norway

Academic journals
A number of journals are circulated in academic circles (normally associated with a governing body such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE). These may cover several different topics as well as computing and often deal with more technical aspects of hardware and software.

ACM Computing Reviews (United States) (ACM)
ACM Queue (United States) (ACM)
ACM Transactions on Graphics (United States) (ACM)
American Programmer (United States)
C/C++ Users Journal (United States) (independent publisher, defunct)
Computer (United States) (IEEE, Computer Society)
Computer Graphics (United States) (ACM SIGGRAPH)
Dr. Dobb's Journal (United States) (independent publisher, defunct)
IEEE Internet Computing (United States) (IEEE, Computer Society)
IEEE Intelligent Systems (United States) (IEEE, Computer Society)
IEEE Micro (United States) (IEEE, Computer Society)
IEEE MultiMedia (United States) (IEEE, Computer Society)
IEEE Software (United States) (IEEE, Computer Society)
Overload (United Kingdom) (ACCU)

Other, now defunct, computer-related magazines

 .info
 Ahoy!
 Boot
 Byte
 C (Finland)
 CD-ROM Today
 Compute!
 COMPUTE!'s Gazette
 Computer Decisions
 Creative Computing
 Electronics Today International, electronics magazine that also published early homebrew computer systems
 Family Computing (later Home Office Computing), home/educational-oriented magazine published by Scholastic, Inc.
 Games for Windows: The Official Magazine
 Hebdogiciel, French computing magazine from the 1980s
 Info Komputer (Indonesia)
 CHIP (India)
 IT-Branchen (Denmark)
 Kilobaud Microcomputing (United States)
 Microsystems
 New Computer Express (United Kingdom)
 Nibble
 PC Ace
 Personal Computer News (United Kingdom)
 Popular Computing Weekly (United Kingdom)
 The One
 The Rainbow
 RUN
 SunWorld, about Sun Microsystems computers (United States)
 UnixWorld, about Unix operating system (United States)
 Verbum, desktop publishing and computer art focused magazine of the 1990s
 Zero

Computer magazine publishers

The following companies publish one or several computer related magazines. Some of these publishers produce computer magazines exclusively and most produce multiple magazines from this genre.

Future plc (United Kingdom)
Newsfield Publications (United Kingdom)
Next Media (Australia)
Sandhills Publishing Company (United States)

See also
 List of disk magazines
 List of engineering journals and magazines

References

External links
Businesswires list of IT magazines

 
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