Future Gamer

Future Gamer was an online video games e-zine created by Future Publishing.

History

Future Gamer was launched in 1998 with Andy Smith as editor. FG as it became known to fans, was the world's first e-mail deliverable gaming magazine. ^[1]

This business model was unsuccessful. FG ran for about 18 months before finally being reshaped into the UK version of Daily Radar, later GamesRadar. ^[2]

Staff

Amongst others:

Andy Smith (Editor)
Steve Bradley (Deputy Editor)
Andy Ashwin
Mark Eveleigh
Alan Jarvie
Amazing Bryan

Community

FG spawned a close online community through its newsgroup. This included a Half Life clan ([FGC]_) that was featured in a subsequent advertising campaign.

Despite community pressure, at 00:00 on 23 May 2001 Future Publishing shut down their News Server in favour of Internet forums. This, along with the demise of the original magazine, led to the FG community seeking out a new home. It has endured to this day through a variety of newsgroups and is currently situated at vgj.forum on nntp.cheeseorsausage.com and at cheese or sausage Archived 2006-06-10 at the Wayback Machine.

References

^ Brief History Archived 2006-05-02 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved Feb. 9th 2006.
^ Campbell, Stuart (April, 2000). CTW: The Entertainment Computer Trade Weekly.

External links

Interview with Andy Smith

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[1] Brief History Archived 2006-05-02 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved Feb. 9th 2006.

[2] Campbell, Stuart (April, 2000). CTW: The Entertainment Computer Trade Weekly.

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