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March 18, 2009

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Highlights from the Edge Reader Blogs this week exhibit an eclectic mix of serious debate and figurine love.

Reader Alex Walker suggests how a simple‭ ‬PRS system could perhaps turn the pre-owned market into the industry’s new best friend,‭ ‬while ‭ ‬Michael Sylvain wants us to be proud,‭ ‬but not zealous.‭

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This week's highlights:

PRS for Games by Alex Walker
The Rise of the Idiots by Michael Sylvain
Suda 51: Vault Boy, Boya Harumichi, Kamen Rider

Today's News

BioWare: Cerberus Is Not Anti-Used Games

DLC service to primarily help build closer relationships with fans; EA helped develop DLC aspirations.
Ex-Ensemble Dev Takes Issue With Closure Comments

Closure down to too much risk and a partner “who wasn’t fond of being there” .
Xbox 360 Update To Allow USB HDD?

Firmware update may allow consumers to load and save data onto a plug in device.

Recent Features

GDC: Will Wright's Perspectives On Play

Wright delivers a futurist lecture arguing gaming exists on three platforms—technical, cultural, and philosophical.
GDC: How To Balance Halo

Bungie's Jaime Griesemer explains the fine art of game balancing and why he's bad at playing his own game.
Community Spotlight

Highlights from our community-written blogs, featuring PlayStation Home's potential for gaming and the emotional impact of Heavy Rain.

Keynotes

Where Did You Go?

The shopping mall scene in Heavy Rain fails, for a simple reason: it’s no fun, argues Chris Dahlen.
3D-ing Is Believing

N'Gai Croal opens Pandora's box and thinks that the depths of 3D really do have something special to bring to videogames.
Words Are Cheap

Chris Dahlen meets the director of interactive fiction documentary Get Lamp and remembers how rich a world that only costs the time it takes to write it can be.

From Edge Magazine

Time Extend: Space Channel 5: Part 2

How hot rhythm and high camp came together to perfectly express Sega’s magical difference.
Review: Dante's Inferno

Dante would only be delighted that his hellish visions should be inflicted on a new generation of sinners.
What Economic Crisis?

Despite an overall year-on-year drop for UK game industry revenues, individual retailers recorded growth in 2009.
Time Extend: Robotron 2084

Why do you love a game that refuses to love you back? Meet Robotron: 2084 – gaming’s earliest abusive relationship.
The Making Of: Gauntlet

How the rise of the home console led to the creation of an arcade gaming legend and the grandfather of Left 4 Dead.

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