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3W Inc, also known as World Wide Wargames, was a wargame company that began publishing in 1977. Originally launched in England, the company moved later to California. In addition to producing boxed wargames, 3W published the magazine
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who had said that they were 'the only independent magazine left in the market'. But, for all purposes that statement was largely true. Though considerably improved from its worst DTI days, the times of
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influencing the industry were over." 3W left the RPG business towards the end of 1989 after some failed expansions resulted in selling off properties, and 3W sold
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Vol. II, No. 1 (July/August, 1989) featured a much more professional cover and somewhat improved interior contents. Unfortunately the new
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from 1983 – 1987 and then sold the rights to 3W, who published the magazine from #112 (June, 1987) to #139, and when founder
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magazines improved but they still looked somewhat dated. 3W decided to resolve this problem following the release of
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only lasted through Vol. II, No. 2 (October/November, 1989). In that last issue, the editor rather angrily decried
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to Future Combat Simulations, who released only a single issue,
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After that, the company also took charges of the magazine
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