EDGE MAGAZINE

The Making Of: PlayStation

Edge Staff — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:36:53 +0100

Developer: Sony
Origin: Japan
Release: 1994

Killzone 2: The Edge Verdict

Edge Staff — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:35:51 +0000

Killzone 2
SCEE
Guerrilla Games
PS3
US Release: Feb 27
UK Release: Feb 27
Screenshot Gallery.
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Review: Street Fighter IV

Edge Staff — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:35:11 +0100

It’s been a while, but they’re back. Actually, it’s been more than a while: it’s been a good 17 years since Street Fighter II, and nine years since Street Fighter III. In that time the 2D fighter has been somewhat marginalised, and players’ expectations have changed. In this context it’s a minor miracle that Yoshinori Ono and his team have not only stuck to a clear vision of how to take the series forward in 2D, but that Capcom has been able to excite people about it to such a degree.

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Miyamoto Unplugged

Edge Staff — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:37:59 +0000

The last time we spoke with Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s future still hung in the balance.

Back then, Wii was codenamed Revolution, and Sony, with PS3 months from release, still dominated the game market. Today, the situation is very different, so much so that we hardly bat an eyelid when Miyamoto says: “To tell the truth, I have this big ambition for Wii Music, that it can eventually be something so influential that it might be able to influence what music means in the world.”
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The Edge Awards 2008

Edge Staff — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:28 +0000

After the excitement of 2007, which saw us getting firmer grips on two new consoles and welcoming three Edge 10s into our collections, 2008 could have been something of an anticlimax. But here, at the end of it, another couple of 10s later, it hardly feels like one.

It began with the videogame industry at the height of self-confidence, achieving record worldwide sales in the first half of the year and with the likes of a new GTA and Metal Gear Solid looming on the horizon.
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The Age of Steam

Edge Staff — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:54:29 +0000

‭The name could hardly be more appropriate.‭ ‬Just as railroads swept the‭ ‬US,‭ ‬leaving in their wake a west that was significantly less wild,‭ ‬so has Valve’s Steam client spread across the PC,‭ ‬centralising,‭ ‬simplifying and consolidating.‭
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GTA Chinatown Wars Close-Up

Edge Staff — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:24:31 +0100

During the journey to Rockstar’s New York offices we’ve been trying to build a mental picture of what Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will look like. In fact, we’ve been trying to do this, on and off, ever since the game’s official announcement at E3, and we’ve more or less settled on something that is a bastardised take on the PSP iterations – and not only because we’re aware that the game is being built by Rockstar Leeds, the studio behind Liberty City and Vice City Stories.

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A Journey into Heavy Rain

Edge Staff — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:18:55 +0100

There is a school of thought which suggests that, if they are to move forward and become taken more seriously as an entertainment medium, videogames need to have more recognisable creatives, that the people responsible for making them need to raise their profiles.

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Inside the New Xbox Live - Part One

Edge Staff — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:55:28 +0100

“We created a new medium. None of the other consoles were really thinking about online at the time. That was our focus – we were like a crazy bull running around a china shop.”
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The Making of... Dune II

Edge Staff — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:59:25 +0000

It is rare indeed for a single game to become the progenitor of an entire new genre.

Although it had its precedents, with some fans attempting to retcon a gaggle of faintly similar 8bit titles for the role, the world’s first realtime strategy game can be named with little real controversy.
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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
Screenshot gallery

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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.
Click here for 50-41 >>
Click here for 40-31 >>
Click here for 30-21 >>
Click here for 20-11 >>
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Uncharted 2 Uncovered

Edge Staff — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:12:12 +0000

It’s one of the great contradictions of the brutally progressive world of videogames that playing it safe is never really playing it safe.

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A Brief History of 3D

Edge Staff — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:19:00 +0000

The 3D we see rendered on our TVs and monitors is a lie. Complex meshes of secrets, lies and workarounds that create from the nothing of mathematics the something of space. After all, computers haven’t yet a chance of simulating proper optics and worlds as intricate as our own. Instead, realtime 3D graphics have developed, year by year, into a portfolio of techniques and effects that are designed to emulate the real world. And now they’re finally beginning to approach that holy grail – if you squint hard enough – the quality of photography.

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Is iPhone Up to the Challenge?

Edge Staff — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:55:06 +0000

Apple claims 62 per cent of the UK music player market, 78 per cent in the US, and the market for games on iPhone is thriving. We sat down with Greg Joswiak, Apple’s VP of iPod and iPhone product marketing, to find out why he thinks the App Store will revolutionise the portable gaming market. (Pic credit: Thorsten Wulff)

EDGE: How is the App Store holding up as a method of getting games to consumers?
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Review: Resident Evil 5

Edge Staff — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:12:44 +0000

Resident Evil‭ ‬5
Capcom
In-house
PS3/Xbox‭ ‬360
US Release:‭ ‬Out Now
UK Release Out Now
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FIFA 10: Championship Managers

Edge Staff — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:01:00 +0100

Format: 360, PC, PS2, PS3, Wii
Release: Autumn
Publisher: EA
Developer: In-house
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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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Inside Fable II

Edge Staff — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:02:00 +0100

Remember when the idea of choice in videogames sounded impossibly liberating?
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LittleBigPlanet: The Edge Verdict

Edge Staff — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:00:00 +0100

For the first couple of hours in LittleBigPlanet, Stephen Fry’s narration, a reprise of his role as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, threatens to steal the show. If not that then Sackboy, an expressive dress-me-up doll whose arms and head you can move with sticks and tilt, and whose mood you control with the D-pad, will. So careful is the introduction to this overwhelming game, and so reliant is it on paternal, unpatronising presentation, that you wonder if anything is underneath. Later, you’ll wonder if anything isn’t.
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