[1] Clarke, who left MegaZone at the time of the Mason Stewart takeover, was asked by Next Media publisher Phil Keir to start a new multi-platform gaming magazine.

Clarke recounted the events in Hyper's 100th issue in February 2002: Just as I was starting to relax, Phil Keir, owner of Next Media and publisher of Rolling Stone, rang me at home one night to ask a few questions.

Before I knew it he had asked me to set up a brand new games magazine – one that I created and controlled completely!

Clarke and other Hyper contributors also appeared on the video game focused TV show The Zone between 1994 and 1995.

[10] Former editors Daniel Wilks and David Hollingworth discussed the magazine's decline and eventual closure in two articles published in 2021.