The magazine is no longer published, but the rights holders maintain a web presence using its final title Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer.

The Space Gamer (TSG) started out as a digest quarterly publication of the brand new Metagaming Concepts company in March 1975.

When Steve Jackson departed Metagaming to found his own company, he also secured the right to publish The Space Gamer from number 27 on.

The change to bi-monthly publication was not enough to allow SJG to focus on new games as they wished, and in 1985, it was announced, "We've sold Space Gamer.

They initially had it as a section in their own magazine The VIP of Gaming, but it soon became a separate publication again with the previous numbering and format, but with the name Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer.

Eventually, Better Games, now renamed Space Gamer, bought the magazine, and has kept the title alive by reinventing it through the internet.

Smith noted that the first issue of this magazine "betrays something of that same mix of interesting ideas but rough presentation ...