~ Issues will be added at a later date ~ Gamers' Republic was a monthly magazine primarily devoted to console games, as well as anime and other "hardcore" topics. It was the second magazine launched by Dave Halverson (after GameFan), and its name and design were inspired by The Designers Republic, the creative team behind the visual look of the Wipeout series. Dave Halverson, David Hodgson and a fair amount of other GameFan staff left its publisher in late 1997. The circumstances behind this exodus are murky, but it was likely caused by growing friction within GameFan's staff and between Metropolis' business leaders. Halverson's new company, Millennium Publications, was set up to be both a magazine publisher and a producer of strategy guides, not unlike DoubleJump Books today. Gamers' Republic was their magazine, and in approach it was a somewhat more mainstream version of GameFan -- the same sort of in-depth coverage of a narrow band of games, but with a more professional look and less blatant fanboyism (although Halverson's personality still dictated the house style a great deal). The magazine had its own website at gamersrepublic.com that updated regularly, although it never had the manpower to be a serious contender online. A translated version was also published in Italy. Like GameFan before it, Gamers' Republic ran into trouble keeping up a regular schedule or a harmonious staff environment. Outfits like Prima Publishing and Versus Books were virtually monopolizing the strategy-guide marketplace by this point, and the only big-name guide Millennium published was for Konami's Metal Gear Solid. In early 1999, most of Millennium's senior staff (including Hodgson, co-publisher Dave Rau, design head Greg Han, and editors Dave Rees, Dan Jevons, and Ryan Lockhart) left en masse after a falling-out with Halverson; the majority of them would end up at Computec Media and form the core team that launched the Incite magazines.