It began life in 1993 as a print publication of Steve Jackson Games for its first 30 issues, and was published on the Internet from March 1998.

Steve Jackson Games also briefly published another online magazine, d20 Weekly for several months using a very similar model to that of Pyramid.

The online subscription system used for Pyramid also granted access to subscriber forums, a dedicated chat server, and occasional pre-publication playtest material for Steve Jackson Games and other companies' products.

It was an ironic return to the generalist magazine industry—though it also promised to incorporate the SJG material that had once been printed in Autoduel Quarterly and Roleplayer."

The new magazine also looked quite nice, with glossy pages and some full color pages—luxuries that Space Gamer had enjoyed only briefly.