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A Brave New World

Edge Staff — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:57:28 +0000

A social space? A cartographically accurate proxy for the real world? Some VR terra incognito to be carved up by entrepreneurs and homesteaders? A white elephant?

Time Extend: The Mark Of Kri

Edge Staff — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:01:41 +0000

'Gather round, all of you who would listen: I have a tale to tell.’ So began The Mark Of Kri, as a storm of line drawings gathered to accompany the narrator’s voice with illustration, equal parts Polynesian myth and Disney flair.

The Making Of: Tapper

Edge Staff — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:38:44 +0100

Format: Arcade
Release: 1983
Publisher: Bally Midway
Developer: In-house

Not all gamers are teenagers. Nor do they always hang out in arcades. Such was the thinking of Bally Midway, which in the early ’80s decided to sidestep its competition by building games for the untapped market of less competitive ‘street’ locations – any site that wasn’t an arcade, such as a pizza joint or a bar.

Review: Forza 3

Edge Staff — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:37:22 +0100

Format: 360
Release: Out now
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Turn 10
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Renaissance Hitman

Edge Staff — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:06:18 +0100

What is Assassin’s Creed II? Prior to navigating the twisting hallways of the old textile factory that now houses Ubisoft Montreal, and projects ranging from James Cameron’s Avatar down in the Bunker (a facility so secure its electronic doors sealed every panicked worker inside when the fire bell last bleated a false alarm) to the repeatedly delayed Splinter Cell Conviction, the question seemed entirely redundant. A Glitch in Time Kills Nine Part II, surely?

Time Extend: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3

Edge Staff — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:26:10 +0100

So, then, which number is it for you? Which Tony Hawk's game should be here instead of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3?

The Making Of: Alien Vs Predator

Edge Staff — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:48:31 +0100

Format: Jaguar
Release: 1994
Publisher: Atari
Developer: Rebellion

Among Oxford University’s many contributions to British cultural life, perhaps the least recognised are its offerings to videogame development. Although Cambridge might have given the world Elite (and, indeed, Steven Poole), it’s a little-known fact that various Oxford graduates have made their own valuable contributions to the world of gaming.

Top 50 iPhone Games: 10-1

Edge Staff — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:23:41 +0100

And finally, we present the final 10 in our list of the top 50 iPhone games available on the App Store today.
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Top 50 iPhone Games: 20-11

Edge Staff — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:07:37 +0100

We continue with our countdown of the best 50 iPhone games on the market at present with numbers 20-11.
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Top 50 iPhone Games: 30-21

Edge Staff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:53:30 +0100

We continue with our countdown of the best 50 iPhone games on the market at present with numbers 30-21.
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Review: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Edge Staff — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:20:20 +0100

Format: PS3
Release: Out now
Publisher: SCE
Developer: Naughty Dog
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Top 50 iPhone Games: 40-31

Edge Staff — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:08:48 +0100

We continue with our countdown of the best 50 iPhone games on the market at present with numbers 40-31.
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Top 50 iPhone Games: 50-41

Edge Staff — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:42:15 +0100

Limitless choice doesn’t always equate to limitless pleasure, as anyone who’s ever spent a bus ride shuffling fruitlessly through the entirety of their record collection will understand. With well over 6,000 games already available on the App Store, it often feels like it’s getting harder to find something worth spending your cash on. This, then, is a list like few others: light on most traditional genres, and overflowing with strange new strains of gaming, from abstract assault courses to maths puzzlers and wrapping challenges.
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The Making Of: Q*bert

Edge Staff — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:16:06 +0100

Format: Arcade
Release: 1982
Publisher: Gottlieb
Developer: Warren Davis/Jeff Lee
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Time Extend: Black & White

Edge Staff — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:59:56 +0100

Darkness, light, heaven, earth and sea. Sun, moon, grass, fish and fowl. And then, just six days in, comes man. Player one takes the stage and the creation process is complete. Black & White is a game that from the off does little to discourage Christian parallels, whether it’s the swirling darkness and light of the opening sequence or the conventional cloud-perching, snow-bearded deity who represents your good conscience. It may be a convenient shorthand, but Black & White took the god-game label more seriously than ever before.
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WarDevil: Chasing Hollywood

Edge Staff — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:09:39 +0100

The trouble with ‘myth-busting’ studio visits is that they all too often become myth-affirming. Whether out of need, defiance or simple denial, sometimes a developer actually believes that the way to silence critics is to show them more of what they doubted in the first place. So it’s with some trepidation that we walk through the gates of Ealing Studios, currently home to the next St Trinian’s movie, to find out if WarDevil, a game that most people still associate with a 2004 technical teaser clip, is anything more than CGI fluff.

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Death Of The Author

Edge Staff — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:05:15 +0100

Books and films are a linear form – a one-way communication from author to audience. Games are interactive, and increasingly players are discovering that the stories that matter most to them are the ones that they express through the game rather than the one that the game’s predefined narrative attempts to tell them. From the Machiavellian wrangling of Eve Online’s player-sustained universe to that last, improbably perfect, sticky grenade that garners you a Killtacular, player expression is rapidly overshadowing the script and setting.
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Review: Demon's Souls

Edge Staff — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:12:20 +0100

Format: PS3
Release: Out now (US, Japan), TBA (Europe)
Publisher: Atlus
Developer: From Software

The disorientation you feel during the first few hours of Demon’s Souls is unprecedented. It’s not that you’ll be in any doubt about the mission: with a sword in one hand, a shield in the other, and a horde of approaching undead, the challenge is one of gaming’s most familiar. Few, however, will be prepared for the relentless setbacks heaped upon their miserable bones in facing it.

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Time Extend: Beyond Good & Evil

Edge Staff — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:40:24 +0100

One of the side effects of games being such strange creatures is that they often get remembered for the most incidental things. For every masterpiece celebrated for the worlds it creates, the new mechanics it defines or the visual techniques it pioneers, there are half-a-dozen oddballs remembered because of some quirk of their attract mode, a particularly bizarre bug or a faintly obscene Easter egg. But a greater rarity is a game that will go down in history for something that has nothing to do with any of the code on its disc, but everything to do with someone else’s reaction to it.
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The Making Of: Sega Rally Championship 1995

Edge Staff — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:44:56 +0100

Format: Arcade
Release: 1995
Publisher: Sega
Developer: In-house (AM3)

Sega Rally is to Saturn what Namco’s Ridge Racer is to PlayStation. With both games representing the apex of arcade-to-home racing conversions in their time, they demonstrate excellence in the trade both companies know best: the arcade fix. Perhaps an even more telling link between the titles is the fact that Kenji Sasaki, director of Sega Rally, was one of the key members of the original Ridge Racer team - and Namco itself.
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