Looking for who said what in the sound world? Well there is no better place to find every audio related press release than 3DsoundSurge.!

Building on the interest in the 1999 Holiday Gift Guide special issue, The Power User Handbook brings together the best PC and PC-related products with in-depth editorial focusing exclusively on PC power. Music and Audio follows on the success of the Imagine Media January 2000 one-shot, Digital Musician, and the Maximum PC February 2000 MP3 issue, which was one of the best sellers of the year, selling 7% above average on newsstands.

``The Power User Handbook is our chance to devote an entire issue to our die-hard tweakers and upgrade addicts by packing all the essential upgrade, tweaking, hardware and software tips and tricks into one issue,'' states Sean Downey, editor of the Power User Handbook. `` It will be their reference guide for the year to come.''

Music and Audio will provide the PC enthusiast with all the information and tools he or she needs for playing, recording, and creating music on the PC with optimum performance. It will feature a roundup of MP3's, a list of the top 50 MP3 sites, music recording and creating how-tos, and extensive hardware and software reviews. And in Imagine Media style, the publication will come with a fully loaded CD-ROM. Kris Fong, editor of Music and Audio, adds, ``With lightning-fast advances in PC technology, the home computer system is quickly replacing the home stereo system and many professional recording and creating technologies. Maximum PC Music and Audio is the only magazine to directly address the needs of the PC enthusiast in this area. These will fly off the newsstands.''

``The Maximum PC special issues are highly vertical to meet the needs of our readers who have specialized interests and who look to Maximum PC for all their PC and PC-related tech information,'' states Chris Coelho, publisher of Maximum PC. ``Since our editors are as passionate about PC technology as our readers are, the one-shots provide the very latest tech information with extremely broad and deep editorial coverage.''

About Maximum PC

Maximum PC magazine is the ultimate source for cutting-edge computing. It's about buying the right system, optimizing its performance, and getting satisfaction doing so. The magazine guides its readers to the latest and greatest in hardware and software by providing informed opinions with absolute candor and uncompromised honesty. Maximum PC offers readers a complete, interactive PC experience by producing three unique media: a print magazine; a CD-ROM; and maximumpc.com, a network of 15 of the top PC web sites.

About Imagine Media, Inc.

Imagine Media (www.imaginemedia.com) is one of America's fastest-growing publishers of magazines and Web sites. Its success is based on the ``passion'' strategy: creating products that consumers are truly excited about. It recently merged into the Future Network plc (www.futurenet.com), the media company founded by Imagine's CEO Chris Anderson in 1985. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Imagine Media's publications sell in excess of 2.5 million copies per month. Its market-leading titles and Web properties include Maximum PC, Business 2.0, MacAddict, Maximum Linux, PC Gamer, PC Accelerator, PSM: 100% Independent PlayStation Magazine, Next Generation, Official Sega Dreamcast Magazine, Games Business, Total Games, Total Movie and its online networks DailyRadar.com, MacAddict.com and MaximumPC.com.

About The Future Network Plc

Future was founded in the UK in 1985. Today it publishes over 127 magazines worldwide and has extensive online activities attracting the attention of 4.9 million unique visitors and generating over 83 million page views per month. It is the world's fastest growing major publisher; the leading publisher of video games and home computing magazines in the UK, France, Italy, Poland 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, Rotterdam and Wroclaw. Future was floated on the London Stock Exchange in June 1999 and has a current market capitalisation of over (pound)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, dailyradar.com, intermusic.com, and totalfootball.co.uk. Future's Web sites and Web networks provide rich, community and information-based services to people in these and related markets worldwide.

Contact:

     Imagine Media, Inc.
     Alison McCreery, 415/468-4684  ext. 2523
     fax: 415/656-2768
     email:  amccreery@imaginemedia.com