In the US it was Compute! and PC Magazine being a couple of the major ones, and Computer Gaming World also covered plenty of gaming relevant tech in the time as well. Yeah there's a heavy x86 PC bias 😀 though there are times when CGW covered some notable Mac games.

Here in NL we had a few local magazines in the 80s and early 90s, generally focused on a single brand/machine type, mostly targeting the hobby/home computer market. Then there were a few more 'profesionally oriented' magazines, which mostly covered PCs and some Apple stuff. Especially in the 80s there was also crossover between magazines aimed at electronics and computers.

Other than that we got a lot of magazines from the UK, which were awesome. In those days I mainly focused on Amiga, so I mostly bought/read Amiga Format and CU Amiga. In the 90s I got more serious about PCs, so I also read PC Format on a regular basis.
These UK magazines were full of interesting stories, background, and even contained programming courses and such. Each month they'd have a cover disk included, with lots of cool software. Lots of shareware, demo software, and even programming tools etc.

The artwork in the UK mags was fantastic as well. Very colorful and humorous. An old friend of mine gave me his complete set of INPUT magizines from 1984-85. It was a complete course on programming for the most popular 8-bit systems at the time by Marshall Cavendish Publishing. You can now veiw them and download the set from archive.org https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine

Between Dec 95 till 2001? I subscribed to PC User Australia. Only recently did the magazines get thrown away something leaked on them in my parents garage.
I still have all the CD's though which at least in later years had an electronic version on the disk.

Articles were interesting if biased towards MS (WinME was recommended even while it was still in beta for months) Always liked the annual tweaking edition, with my first one still including Win3x.
And yes I lusted over those price lists at the back of the mag like faster had drives, fancy sound cards, but was still at school so couldn't buy anything

PC Format here. Collected number 1 to 1996 or 1997. Actually just going through them all now checking out some of the programs my lowly 486 wouldn't run at the time.