While I can appreciate your dislike of the ads, they do generate revenue that could free us up to try other, more elaborate ideas. In other words, I won't promise you'll never see ads in IE, but they'll probably stay in the form you've seen - a button on a menu, that you'll have to WANT to see.
The two-voice review isn't going away, don't worry. It's sort of our "signature" feature. We are changing the tone a bit...sliding the dial a bit away from the goofy side of the spectrum. There'll still be some funny (or at least, what we see as funny) reviews, but others will be somewhat more sober.
Well (I'm starting to sound like a broken record in this letter column) rather than go to two CDs we're merging with a paper mag. This'll give us a tremendous amount of flexibility. For instance, right now we often have the information to do a preview well before we have enough art to do one.
We'll be offering more demos, virtually all of them playable, in the future. You'll see the return of the free game from time to time, but only when we can get titles that we feel are worth offering.
Interactive interviews û well, we have no current plans to bring them back, but if enough of you want them...
More info? You bet. We're working on a "button bar" that will float at the bottom of the screen for every article, and we're also polishing up the full text version. Much of the reason for that is to ease the transition for Computer Games Strategy Plus readers as they enter the IE world, but everyone should benefit.
Thanks for all your thoughts. Many more changes to come, as we re-focus our efforts. We've got some really talented people working on the visual and aural design of the mag, and I think you'll be happy with the changes that they're coming up with.
