• Interactive pages, full screen trailers, exclusive content & galleries
• Created using Future’s own software, FutureFolio
• http://bit.ly/ISdR4Z

11/05/12 Total Film, the modern movie brand for film fans, today launches a fully interactive global iPad edition featuring interactive pages, exclusive content and full-screen video.

Fully retina display enabled to take advantage of the razor-sharp image quality on the new iPad, the monthly edition contains a raft of interactive content and features in addition to the standard print-replica digital edition. These include animated feature intros, exclusive picture galleries, full-screen movie trailers and sharable text.

The Total Film Interactive Edition was created using Future’s own proprietary software, FutureFolio. FutureFolio is an Apple-approved wrapper for digital products on the Newsstand, which opens up new opportunities and channels for the digital publication market.

Launching with an exclusive The Dark Knight Rises cover story, the issue itself features bespoke video content direct from the set of the blockbuster film of summer.

Jane Crowther, Editor of Total Film, says: “The Total Film Interactive iPad Edition offers our readers the perfect opportunity to fully engage in the Total Film experience. Through interactive pages, bespoke video, plus exclusive extra content and galleries, our audience of passionate film fans are able to interact with the brands cutting-edge editorial content more than ever before.”

Mike Goldsmith, Future’s Editor-in-Chief of iPad & Tablet Editions, says: “Total Film is the perfect brand for the iPad – good-looking, cool, interactive, forward-looking and all about amazing content. By using our own magazine app creation software to create this product, we are able to make editorial workflow as efficient as possible and produce an interactive edition that’s truly best in class.”

With over 70 titles available to purchase on Apple’s Newsstand, Future is a world leader in tablet publishing and has more digital editions available for iPads and iPhones than any other publisher.

The Total Film Interactive Edition is available to download from http://bit.ly/JHLjrF for a special introductory price of £1.99 for two weeks only. Thereafter, each monthly edition will be priced at £3.99. Film fans can also download a free sampler edition from the Total Film Container App now.

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For more information please contact:

Ben Bolton, Senior Communications Executive for Future on 020 7042 4034 or ben.bolton@futurenet.com

About Total Film:

Total Film is the modern movie brand, taking an affectionate and irreverent look at Hollywood blockbusters, classic films and more indie fare. Reaching more valuable film fans than ever before, TotalFilm.com, the Total Film app and magazine provide users with all the latest gossip and news from the film world, including first looks at the coolest movies in production now. The Total Film brand offers the world’s most reliable film and DVD reviews together with exclusive interviews with the biggest names and hottest talents working in movies right now.

About Future:

Future is a leader in the field of digital publishing and was named Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year at the annual Association of Online Publishers Awards – becoming the first magazine publisher to win the Award. Future also won the Grand Prix Award at the event in June. Its web and mobile sites deliver 160 million page impressions every month to over 34 million unique users. Future delivers more than 100 digital editions and bespoke apps through the rapidly growing iPad platform and is developing product for new tablet devices coming on stream. Digital now accounts for a third of all Future’s commercial revenues. And its development of video on demand and apps is rightly regarded as market leading. Technology brand T3 is leading the way on iPad, becoming one of the top grossing apps in the UK and one of the very few five star apps in the world. The Future digital portfolio includes award winning and hugely respected brands including: www.techradar.com, www.cyclingnews.com, www.gamesradar.com, www.computerandvideogames.com, www.musicradar.com and www.bikeradar.com.

The changes come as the Entertainment group enters the next phase of its strategy to drive growth across its international, digitally-focussed brand business. The moves will accelerate the group’s ability to provide commercial partners with digital solutions and greater levels of audience engagement. Web and mobile growth, digital Newsstand development, on console solutions, increased video production, and a broadening content base are all part of the mix to better cater for emerging types of game play.

The moves will also see the group put an increased focus on building levels of service and developing engagement tools around strong editorial product.

The respective changes are:

• Don Ditri becomes Head of Commercial Development – Entertainment, focussing on driving increased digital commercial revenues, new business development and forming partnerships across all of Future’s UK Entertainment Portfolio. Don will relinquish publishing responsibilities for CVG and GamesRadar UK.

• Clair Porteous becomes Head of Digital Development – Entertainment (Group Publisher CVG and GamesRadar UK). Alongside picking up publishing responsibilities for CVG and GamesRadar UK, Clair will also be responsible for driving both mobile and digital development, as well as consumer revenues across the group. The move follows Clair’s quadrupling of Total Film’s online reach in the past 12 months – overtaking Empireonline for the first time – as well as launching Future’s first mobile site and Total Film’s Interactive iOS product. Clair will relinquish publishing responsibilities for the Film portfolio to bring her experience and focus to the games space.

• Lee Nutter continues as Publisher of the Nintendo titles, whilst picking up additional publishing responsibilities for Future’s Film portfolio, comprising Total Film, SFX and Comic Heroes. Lee will relinquish publishing responsibilities for GamesMaster magazine.

• Richard Keith continues as Publisher for PCGamer, Edge and the Xbox brands. Richard will take the lead for the PCGamer brand globally and will be responsible for driving an aggressive development schedule around PCGamer.com to build on the incredible success the site has enjoyed to date. He also picks up additional responsibility to drive Future’s move into the mobile and tablet gaming markets, as well as the free-to-play gaming market.

• James Kick continues as Associate Publisher of both the PlayStation portfolio and the GamesMaster Golden Joystick Awards, whilst picking up additional publishing responsibility for GamesMaster magazine, which recently celebrated its 250^th issue. The move sees GamesMaster magazine move closer to the Golden Joysticks and will also see the brand develop across digital formats.

• Tim Clark’s job title changes from Editor in Chief of Games to Group Senior Editor – Games to better reflect his responsibilities across the group in driving editorial excellence across all platforms.

The following roles remain unchanged:

• Ursula Morgan continues as VP of Media running all games brands in the US with the exception of GamesRadar.

• Mark Kramer continues as VP of Internet & Mobile Products leading GamesRadar globally.

• Keith Walker – who joined Future in April – continues as Head of Audience Development – Entertainment, focussing on driving audience growth and engagement across the entire Entertainment portfolio.

Simon Maxwell, Group Publishing Director, says: “We have realigned the structure of the Entertainment Portfolio to provide a greater focus on delivering rapid digital growth, increased and additional revenue streams, greater audience engagement and the agility to move into emerging markets. These steps will also allow us to drive more projects with a global focus and puts the Entertainment portfolio in an extremely strong position entering our next phase of evolution.”

In addition to these senior personnel changes, Nitro – the boys’ magazine for action and heroes – will cease to publish. All Nitro personnel will be redeployed within Future.

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For more information please contact:

Ben Bolton, Senior Communications Executive for Future on 020 7042 4034 or ben.bolton@futurenet.com

About Future: Future plc is an international media group and leading digital publisher, listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: FUTR).  Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events. We hold market-leading positions in Games, Film, Music, Technology, Cycling, Crafts and Automotive. Our biggest-selling products include TechRadar, T3, Total Film, BikeRadar, MusicRadar, Classic Rock, Mollie Makes, GamesRadar and Official Xbox Magazine. TechRadar is the UK’s number one consumer technology website. Future sells 2.9 million magazines each month; we attract more than 34 million monthly unique visitors to our websites; and we deliver over 100 digital editions and bespoke apps on tablet. Future exports or syndicates publications to 89 countries, making us the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of magazine content. Future is the Association of Online Publishers’ Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year.

MONDAY 11^TH JUNE – INDIGO2, LONDON

CHRIS JERICHO TO HOST

VOTING CLOSES IN TWO WEEKS VOTE NOW AT WWW.METALHAMMER.CO.UK

09/05/12 Metal Hammer and the Golden Gods have become institutions of rock and metal music worldwide, and this year frontman of Fozzy and one of the biggest names in world wrestling, Chris Jericho is taking up the hosting duties.

As well as playing at Download Festival just prior to the Golden Gods, Jericho, with his band Fozzy, will also be playing an exclusive set aboard HMS Hammer, one of two pre-show party boats for VIP’s and Metal Hammer competition winners.

On performing at – and hosting – the 10^th Golden Gods, Chris Jericho says: “Your head is going to explode. Your brain is going to become liquefied. Your bones are going to crumble into dust… Crank it up! It’s going to be awesome.”

In the ten-year history of the Orange Amplification Presents The Metal Hammer Golden Gods In Association With Hobgoblin, the fans have been at the core of everything. The event is filled with true metal fans, the awards are perfectly tuned to what the core fanbase cares about, which is why a Golden God’s Gong is so sought after by the bands… they actually mean something!

Alex Milas, Editor of Metal Hammer says: “Over the course ten years the Metal Hammer Golden Gods have established themselves as the gold standard by which all other such affairs are measured. As the world’s only genuine metal awards show, we pride ourselves in the quality of acts that come to perform, party, and indeed pick up a gong on the night. Far from a mere industry affair though, we invite our readers along to celebrate with us, and this year we’re inviting one of their bands to play on our now-famous gig boat ahead of the event as part of our Hobgoblin Band Search. As we celebrate our mag’s 25th year of publication we’ll also be hoisting a goblet to over a decade of hosting the first, the best, and the heaviest metal awards show on the planet. Here’s to another 10. Chin-chin.”

2012 is building up to be bigger than ever for the Golden Gods, and with the awards representing true metal fans, voting has never been so important. With only two weeks left to vote go to http://goldengods.metalhammer.co.uk NOW to ensure you have had your say, as well as the chance of winning a place on HMS Hammer!

The reader voted categories are…

Best New Band (Sponsored By Kraken)

Animals As Leaders

Heights

The Defiled

Kobra And The Lotus

Primal Rock Rebellion

Best Underground Band

Ancient VVisdom

Black Breath

In Solitude

Shining (No)

Watain

Dimebag Darrell ‘Shredder’

Adam D (Killswitch)

Devin Townsend

Dino Cazares (Fear Factory)

Ol Drake (Evile)

Satchel (Steel Panther)

Breakthrough Artist (Sponsored By Hobgoblin)

Cancer Bats

Ghost

Motionless In White

Parkway Drive

While She Sleeps

Best UK Band (Sponsored By Roadrunner)

Black Spiders

Fields Of The Nephilim

Saxon

TesseracT

TRC

Best Live Band (Sponsored By Kopparberg)

Iron Maiden

Metallica

Rammstein

Skindred

Watain

Best Event (Sponsored By Alchemy)

Devin Townsend’s UK shows

Iron Maiden’s UK Tour

Manowar long-awaited return to the UK

Dave Mustaine joining Metallica on stage

Motley Crue/Tommy Lee’s drum rollercoaster

Metal As F*ck (Sponsored By World Of Tanks)

Anthrax

Hell

Nik Kai

Sabaton

Zoltan Bathory

Best International Band

Five Finger Death Punch

Lamb Of God

Meshuggah

Nightwish

Opeth

Video Of The Year (Voting via http://www.facebook.com/ScuzzTv)

Asking Alexandria – To The Stage

Trivium – In Waves

Mastodon – Curl Of The Burl

Motionless In White – Creatures

Red Fang – Wires

For more information please contact ben.pester@futurenet.com or 0207 042 4035

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Editors Notes:

About Metal Hammer Magazine:

Metal Hammer is the heavy metal bible. Based in the UK, published monthly, and distributed internationally, it is now in its 25^th year of publication, and its coverage of the world of metal – from the cutting edge to the extreme – is unparalleled. With 300,000 Facebook followers, 100,000 Twitter followers, and its unprecedented coverage of the global metal scene – from India to Indonesia to South America – it truly is the world’s premiere metal magazine.

About Orange Amplification:

Founded in 1968 by Cliff Cooper, Orange Amps have always been a pioneering force in guitar amplification and built their reputation on delivering high quality without compromise on construction and tone. Known as the best British guitar amplifier manufacturer for both design and build, the company were awarded The Queens Award for Enterprise and International Trade in 2006 and 2009, the highest award that the Queen can confer on a UK company and it is recognised throughout the world.

Contact:

USA info@orangeusa.com or outside USA info@omec.com

http://www.orangeamps.com/

Tel ; +44 208 905 2828

Fax ; +44 208 905 2868

About Hobgoblin:

What’s the matter Lagerboy… afraid you might taste something? Hobgoblin beer continues to lead the crusade against bland and fizzy beer – bringing taste to the nation. Hand crafted at the award winning Wychwood Brewery in Oxfordshire since 1988, this full – body dark ruby ale is full of mischievous character. An infusion of dark roasted malts delivers a delicious toffee malt flavour – one to tingle the taste buds. This is no pint of ‘ordinary’!

www.wychwood.co.uk

About Future:

Future plc is an international media group and leading digital publisher, listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: FUTR).  Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events. We hold market-leading positions in Games, Film, Music, Technology, Cycling, Crafts and Automotive. Our biggest-selling products include TechRadar, T3, Total Film, BikeRadar, MusicRadar, Classic Rock, GamesRadar and Official Xbox Magazine. TechRadar is the UK’s number one consumer technology website. Future sells 2.9 million magazines each month; we attract more than 34 million monthly unique visitors to our websites; and we deliver over 100 digital editions and bespoke apps on tablet. Future exports or syndicates publications to 89 countries, making us the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of magazine content. Future is the Association of Online Publishers’ Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year.

About Chris Jericho:

Jericho has established himself as one of the most famous and respected wrestlers in the world. But it was in 1999, whilst injured, when he followed a burning passion inside him to take his first steps into the world of music, and more specifically metal! Initially as a covers band, Jericho set up the band Fozzy with members of Stuck Mojo. They soon developed writing and performing original material and have gone on to received critical acclaim and worked with some of the biggest names in rock including Zak Wylde and Alter Bridge.

www.cyclingnews.com/HD #CyclingNewsHD

02/05/12 Future, the world’s largest cycling publisher, is to launch Cycling News HD, a new weekly digital cycling magazine through Apple’s Newsstand. Designed exclusively for the mobile tablet device, the first issue is available free on Wednesday 2^nd May.

Cycling News HD provides a must-have weekly package for all followers of international road racing, including an essential summary of the weekly road racing news and  detailed round-ups of the week’s leading races. Alongside is comprehensive analysis and comment from the experts, the sharpest photography of key events and riders, event previews, and the latest team-by-team news. There will also be interviews and comment from the biggest names in the sport.

Retailing at 69p in the UK and 99c in the US, Cycling News HD will have a truly international appeal – reflecting the nature of the global sport. The glamorous world of competition road cycling will be beautifully presented using the rich functionality of the tablet environment and accompanied with the stunning photography of world-renowned cycling photographer Tim De Waele.

Cycling News HD publisher Richard Schofield says: “Cyclingnews.com is the world’s biggest news and results brand for professional cycling. With the launch of Cycling News HD, we’ve created a completely new weekly package of must-have content tailored for international cycling enthusiasts, delivered exclusively to their iPads each and every week.”

Cycling News HD has been created on Future Folio, the app-creation software developed in-house at Future Publishing. This market leading software is an Apple-approved wrapper for digital products on the Newsstand, and Future is licensing this software to other publishers.

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For more information please contact Ben Pester, Communications Manager at ben.pester@futurenet.com or 0207 042 4053 and 07737 138 384

Editors Notes:

About Future:

Future plc is an international media group and leading digital publisher, listed on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: FUTR).  Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating 200 specialist publications, apps, websites and events. We hold market-leading positions in Games, Film, Music, Technology, Cycling, Crafts and Automotive. Our biggest-selling products include TechRadar, T3, Total Film, BikeRadar, MusicRadar, Classic Rock, Mollie Makes, GamesRadar and Official Xbox Magazine. TechRadar is the UK’s number one consumer technology website. Future sells 2.9 million magazines each month; we attract more than 34 million monthly unique visitors to our websites; and we deliver over 100 digital editions and bespoke apps on tablet. Future exports or syndicates publications to 89 countries, making us the UK’s number one exporter and licensor of magazine content. Future is the Association of Online Publishers’ Consumer Digital Publisher of the Year