[7][8] Chronicles of Chaos was founded by Canadians Gino Filicetti and Adrian Bromley in August 1995,[3][4] and started out in the shape of a monthly e-mail digest.

Until 2003, the Chronicles of Chaos website served only as a static repository of plain text back issues, with the latest digest available for hypertext navigation.

[citation needed] As of 2007, Chronicles of Chaos had 16 staff writers, with contributors based in the US, UK, Romania, France, Norway, South Africa and Scotland.

[10] On December 7, 2008, Chronicles of Chaos co-founder Adrian Bromley died due to pneumonia, in his sleep, aged 37.

[13][14][15] On August 12, 2015, marking the twentieth anniversary of the magazine, founder Gino Filicetti and co-editor Pedro Azevedo announced that Chronicles of Chaos had ceased publication of new articles.

Chronicles of Chaos remains online as an archive, containing over 7,500 reviews, interviews and opinion articles that were published during a span of twenty years.