Future Gamer; are future-regarding

Friday, May 16th, 2008

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

Contents


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. (Brief History. Retrieved Feb. 9th 2006.)

This business model was unsuccessful. FG ran for about 18 months before finally being reshaped into the UK version of Daily Radar, later gamesradar.com. (Campbell, Stuart (April, 2000). CTW: The Entertainment Computer Trade Weekly.)


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, on May 23rd 2001 at 00:00 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.


External links

  • Interview with Andy Smith

Alternate future; future-regarding and thus imply

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

In science fiction stories involving time travel, an alternate future or alternative future is a possible future which never comes to pass, typically because someone travels back into the past and alters it so that the events of the alternate future cannot occur.

An alternate future differs from alternate history in that alternate history usually speculates on what might have happened in the past if some events in the past had occurred differently, while an alternative future usually speculates on what might happen in the future. Also, alternative histories commonly forgo time travel, while alternate futures do not.

An alternate future should not be confused with a possible future. Many science fiction stories are set in the future and treat it as if it were the only future within the context of the story; an alternate future story is specifically set in an alternate one, that is, one that, within the context of the story, does not come about to pass.

Examples of fictional works which show alternate futures include:

  • Back to the Future Part 2
  • Mirror Universe (Star Trek)
  • A Sound of Thunder
  • In Marvel Comics:
    • Days of Future Past
    • Cable’s future timeline dominated by Apocalypse and Stryfe
  • ends up as an alternate future in the Marvel comics continuity


See also

  • alternate history
  • alternate universe
  • parallel world
  • Future history
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