Launch of UK Games Website

Future Network PLC
14 February 2000

                 FUTURE  TO LAUNCH UK GAMES WEBSITE

             Games magazine market leaders extend global
                     Internet brand into the UK


Future Network plc (LSE: FNET), the specialist consumer magazine and
website   publisher,  today  announces  that   it   is   to   launch
DailyRadar.co.uk, a major video and computer games website  for  the
UK  market.  The site will be based on Future's highly successful US
site of the same name (www.dailyradar.com) and is planned to go live
in early April.

DailyRadar will be a leading site for information-hungry UK  gamers:
it  will  provide  daily news, reviews, tips  and  features  on  all
aspects of the video games and home entertainment market through its
four  channels:  PC  Game  Radar, Sega  Radar,  Nintendo  Radar  and
PlayStation Radar. The site will also offer consumers
e-commerce  opportunities, online gaming and  a  comprehensive  tips
database.

The  site  is  headed by Robert Price, Future's Group Publisher  for
computer  and  video  games  and it will  have  a  dedicated  online
editorial   team  responsible  for  daily  content  on   the   site.
Additional  content will also be sourced from the US site  and  from
Future's existing UK games magazine websites, which will also  carry
links  to  the  DailyRadar  site.  With  the  traffic  generated  by
existing  sites,  DailyRadar will launch with a  base  of  at  least
234,000  unique  visitors and over two million  ad  impressions  per
month on which to build.

Future  launched  the US version of DailyRadar  in  September  1999.
Since  then it has become one of the most visited video games  sites
in  the country, with 7.9 million page views and over 830,000 unique
visitors  per  month.   In addition to advertising  and  sponsorship
revenues,  the  site  is generating e-commerce revenues  for  Future
through its partnership with US games retailer Babbages, etc.

Commenting on the launch of DailyRadar in the UK, Greg Ingham, Chief
Executive of Future said:

'Our  success  in  the  US with Daily Radar demonstrates  the  value
online  gamers  attach  to  quality  information  and  content.   By
augmenting this content for UK audiences we have a great opportunity
to  replicate  this success. Our strategy, as with our key  magazine
brands,  is  that the UK launch will be followed by other  localised
versions of Daily Radar elsewhere in Europe this year.'

Future was also pleased to note that the UK's on-line activities and
websites  recorded 1.3 million unique users in December 1999  making
them amongst the most visited sites in the UK, according to the  New
Media Age survey of 'Top Sites' published in January 2000.


For further information:

Greg Ingham, Chief executive        Tel: [phone]
Future Network

Robert Price, Group Publisher       Tel: [phone]
Future Publishing

James Longfield                     Tel: [phone]
Hogarth Partnership

Harriet Keen                      Pager: 07641 128928
Hogarth Partnership


Background on The Future Network

The Future Network was founded in the UK in 1985. Today Future
publishes 120 magazines worldwide and has extensive online
activities generating over 68 million ad impressions per month. It
is the world's fastest growing major publisher; is the leading
publisher of video games and home computing magazines in the UK,
France, Italy and the US; and, ranks as the fourth largest magazine
publisher in the UK. Future employs over 1,500 people in offices in
Bath, London, San Francisco, New York, Paris, Milan, Munich and
Rotterdam. Future was floated on the London Stock Exchange in June
1999 and has a current market capitalisation of over £1 billion.

Future's internet activities serve the PC, Mac, Games, Music and
Football communities in the US and the UK with fast-growing sites
like maximumpc.com, maximumpc.co.uk, macdaily.com, dailyradar.com,
intermusic.com, and ufn.co.uk. Future's websites and web networks
provide rich, community- and information-based services to people in
these and related markets worldwide.