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Issue 60 - January 6, 2000
 
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US Bias

Dear Future Gamer

I don't know if it's just me or not, but recently there seems to a huge bias in your magazine to what's happening over the pond in the good old US of A. Now don't get me wrong, I'm sure a large proportion of readers are interested in this stuff (imports and all that), but do we really need to know all the release dates, etc, for games in the US? What does it matter to us in the UK? In particular I refer to your GT2 article. You completely focused on the US launch and then added the UK details as an afterthought. It seems to be spreading too.

It's hard enough to find good quality UK information as it is, so please try to keep your focus a little closer to home. You are a UK mag after all - aren't you?

Stuart Hough


FG: We do try to balance the American coverage we get from our cousins at IGN and most people agree that we get it about right most of the time. Sometimes, though, there's a lot more news breaking over there than over here and we simply try to include as much of what's relevant as possible.

Got an opinion or a question? Write to me at andy.smith@futurenet.co.uk...

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