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How Long Should Games Be?

Smash Bros is just one example of a short, repeating core experience with incredible versatility and depth, which makes it perhaps the haiku of our medium.

October 12, 2008

Driving Indie Games From Margin to Center

Indiecade founder and president Stephanie Barish highlights the creative essence of independent games...

October 10, 2008

How to Make the Earth Move

Daniel Hay, senior producer and art director at Day 1 Studios talks about the challenges of designing Fracture’s Terrain Deformation–based gameplay.

October 09, 2008

The Sims 3 Goes All-Out On Advertising

Marketing columnist Thom Dinsdale looks at Electronic Arts' work with in-games ads and The Sims franchise...

October 08, 2008

BBFC Chief Writes for Edge

David Cooke, director of the British Board of Film Classification, explains why he believes the BBFC has an essential role to play in classifying games…

October 08, 2008

"The overall effect of Echochrome is one of surprisingly powerful melancholy, and one can only wonder at Sony’s crassness in packaging the game, in the west, with lurid happy colours and a photograph of a woman spurting think bubbles."

October 07, 2008

Nintendo's DSi: A Caustic Look

Tim Rogers is less than impressed by Nintendo's recent announcements and the DSi...

October 06, 2008

Getting WWII Right

Gearbox chief Randy Pitchford recounts his experiences of working with WWII veterans on Brothers in Arms: Hell’s Highway

October 03, 2008

Is Braid Pretentious?

"The term ‘pretentious’ generally obscures more than it reveals about the subject matter, but it often speaks volumes about those who throw it around"

October 02, 2008

Japan Matters

DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole says despite a shift of power to the West, publishers must still keep an eye on Japan.

September 30, 2008

When Board Games Meet Video Games

Chip Lange, GM and VP of Hasbro Studios at EA, explains how classic board games are being re-imagined for a broad spectrum of interactive platforms…

September 30, 2008

An Asian FPS Coming to the West

The challenges of bringing a Korean-developed first-person shooter to Western markets...

September 29, 2008

My Belief in the PlayStation 3 Advantage

SCEA’s Vice President of Product Marketing Scott Steinberg argues that PlayStation 3 offers more choice, across the board, than other consoles…

September 25, 2008

A Bad Boss Can Send You to an Early Grave

Personality and workplace author Dr. Travis Bradberry looks at the problem of the bosses who make your life a misery...

September 24, 2008

From E.T. to Star Wars

Edge blogger Pascal Clarysse argues that game / movie company relationships are struggling from the same problems that did for E.T. in '82.

September 23, 2008

"Everyone Was Shocked"

Ensemble's Bruce Shelley talks about the closure of the highly respected studio, and the future for the people affected by the move

September 23, 2008

Free-To-Play Must Repair Tarnished Image

Perfect World Entertainment's Director of Operations Yoon Im says the image of free-to-play as cookie cutter Asian grinders needs to change...

September 22, 2008

"Break the Tyranny of Game Publishers"

Mark Morris, co-founder of Darwinia dev Introversion, writes how the developer-publisher relationship is "broken."

September 18, 2008

Games Women Play

Who are female gamers and what are they playing? The answers may surprise you, according to Robert Norton, Managing Director, North America of King.com