Welcome back everyone! We hope you had a wonderful and trouble-free Christmas and New Year and got all the new games you were hoping for. If you got given a duff one for Xmas though, sign up whoever bought you the turkey to Future Gamer to ensure they don't go wasting their money on such rubbish again. We're back and running at full speed again after the holidays, but have missed two days from our schedule so forgive us if the odd typo creeps in - it's been manic here this week! Still, we've managed to cram in all the usual goodies and we reckon you'll enjoy the read just as much as normal. After our stupendous Games of the Millennium feature (thanks for all your feedback - we've had surprisingly few emails telling us how we missed such and such a game, so we must have got most things right), we've lightened things up with a tale of a gamer's trip to Japan. You'll enjoy it, we're sure. Andy Smith - Editor

News headlines:

Crazy Taxi Set For February Release ... Square's PlayStation2 Racing Game ... Gran Turismo 2 Not Complete ... PS2 PDA on the Way ... Japanese Console Chart Update ... Gunlok ... Tomb Raider 4 for a Quid! ... Dreamcast Links Up to Japanese Televisions ... Miyamoto and Dolphin ... Shenmue to Arrive Stateside in July? ... Portable Chocobo on Your PC ... New Syphon Filter 2 Details ... New Online RPG Announced for Dreamcast ... Mike Tyson is Back! ... New Gauntlet Coming to an Arcade Near You ... Virtua Cop 2 Dreamcast Bound ...

In this issue:
Preview: Sudden Strike (PC) Our first impressions were that this was just a C&C clone in WWII clothes, but after more play, this German coded, er, C&C clone in WWII clothes has grown on us a lot. Just goes to show that old genres don't die, they just go back in time.
Review: Le Mans 24 Hours (PlayStation) We bet, just bet, that someone actually takes advantage of this game's 24-hour option. Wouldn't it be gutting to crash on the second to last lap of a marathon like that? Here's what we think of the PlayStation version of Infograme's licensed racer.
Feature: Gamer's Rough Guide to Japan Sometime Future Gamer contributor Ben Vost recently got the chance to head out to Japan. We asked him to have a wander around the games shops and give us his impressions. It turns out that not all our pre-conceptions of Japanese gamers are correct.

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