Dear Future Gamer,

Thank the Lord for Mr. Jon Hare of Sensible Software. Knight him for services to the games industry (in next year's honours list!) and give the man a cigar. He deserves one.

When I found out Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll was canned, I shook my head at the poor state of the industry. It looked like it could be the one innovative game of the year and no publisher took it up. I mean, come on! If Lola - The Sexy Empire can hit the shops, surely SDR - which seems less risque - should see the light of day? The poor guy saw three years of work down the drain, due to the executives, who are already choking the market with sequels and clones.

Grand Theft Auto was a perfect example of a game that broke the mould, annoyed a hell of a lot of people along the way, but blessed those with the nouse to buy it with hours of great gameplay.

The acquisition by Codemasters should, nay must, force SDR onto the shelves. The lovely Darling brothers and their company are one of a select few houses who I put full trust in and they have the power to get this game released.

Chris Lewis

FG: Jon's move to Codemasters should be A Good Thing. As for SDR, I think Jon would rather close the book on that and start looking forward again. Sure, it's a lot of wasted effort but you can't keep a man like Jon down and he'll have learnt a great deal from the, sadly bitter, experience. Then again, maybe Codemasters have different plans. Would anyone from the Codies care to comment?