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Edge: 200 Issues
On March 12, Edge Magazine will release its 200th issue, featuring 200 unique cover designs.
A range of 199 different editions will be available on the newsstand, while the 200th design – custom designed by LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule – will be delivered exclusively to subscribers:
“For Edge’s tenth birthday the team produced ten unique cover designs, so to mark this occasion we needed to do something a bit more ambitious,” said Tony Mott, Edge’s Editor-in-Chief.
“At one point during the process we had over 300 designs, and paring those down to the final 200 was one of the most interesting headaches we’ve ever had. The final line-up includes a selection of different art styles, featuring characters and games from a variety of genres, and we think we’ve put together a strong representation of gaming as a whole.”
Key features inside issue 200 are Edge’s rundown of the 100 best games to play today and an in-depth look at the conception and birth of the industry-changing PlayStation. Elsewhere, the team talks exclusively to Ted Dabney, the forgotten co-founder of Atari who, after 35 years, finally tells his story.
“As far as we know, no one’s ever produced 200 different cover designs for a single edition of a magazine, and at certain points during the process – usually late at night, surrounded by stacks of proofs and mad-eyed art staff – it was easy to see why,” said Mott.
“But we have the results in the office and they look great. Now we’re just looking forward to readers getting issue 200 in their hands.”
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I can't believe it was nearly 8 years ago when I first bought Edge. I was in Newcastle Airport on my way to Florida and realised I had no reading material for the flight. Low and behold, I stumbled across Issue 100 of Edge with that superb Mario & Luigi cover in the airport WHSmith and immediately bought it. I later subscribed and still own every single issue released since then.
Thank you very much for this url maffw. On the other side, I miss Shodan. ^^
http://tinyurl.com/bj4q5h
to view all the covers on one web page rather than one at a time with the viewer on here.
Note - it's 26.5MB of images so might take a while to load for some people.
I think all of them are brilliant! Well done to Edge.
I definitely would love to see that printed as something separate for the next issue.
Print is dead, long live print!
Congratulations Edge, see you at 300! :)
EGM2
I have ALL 50 of the issues of EGM2 when it was published. I'm getting ready to sell the entire collection on eBay. If you are interested, write to me and I will tell you when I put them up for sale.
I need the Streets Of Rage issue, and I need it stat! :^)
Congratulations EDGE on 200 issues! I've been a reader since issue 114 I think it was (Super Mario Sunshine cover), and you are by far and away the best videogames publication I have ever read. You are smart, justified, humorous and gorgeous to look at! (My girlfriend even poses naked with you! She loves you too!)
All of the 200 covers have something to offer, some personal favourites being God Of War, Okami, Shadow Of The Colossus, Bomberman, Bioshock, Yuna, and Streets Of Rage. I actually just spent the last hour and a half saving all the images so I have a digitial copy of every one! What can I say, to me EDGE is as important as videogames themselves!
Perhaps there are a few too many Zelda Ocarina Of Time era covers, which could have made way for a Wind Waker-style child Link, or for some iconic classics like Ico, Rez or Space Channel 5. On the otherhand there are some covers I'm happy to see, which I might not have expected, like Speedball, Marble Madness, Earthworm Jim, Jet Set Radio, the head of the Doom guy, Stranger's Wrath, Beyond Good And Evil, and Shenmue. Everyone is bound to be happy with some choices and not others, and I think the selection is great to be honest.
I don't subscribe anymore, but buy issues from the newstand now and then. This is primarily due to insufficient storage space. However, if you were to also distribute the magazine digitally, as another user mentioned, using a service like Zinio, I would gladly subscribe again. I'd love to have a copy of EDGE delivered every month straight to my computer.
All the best to the EDGE team, and keep up the good work!
"or for some iconic classics like Ico, Rez or Space Channel 5."
I totally agree. Rez or SC5 instead of FF6's Edgar would have been a better choice.
Also, where is Yuna?, did you mean Ashe?.
Yes it is Ashe, not Yuna, sorry. I've still not got round to playing FFX or X-2, and I assumed she was Yuna. But a google image search proved that it is Ashe. Yeah, I agree, a nice Ulala cover would have worked. No matter though, I like the others. I don't think you can take them all in in one go; I keep looking back through them and being pleasantly suprised, as if there're too many to remember. Wow! They did Gauntlet!
Oh and my apologies, there is a Rez cover!
Congratulations, EDGE. These are all beautiful covers: Number 70 blew me away. You should have released all the covers in a booklet form as a supplement to this month’s issue.
Anyway, this is my top 25 (in order of preference):
70 Left for Dead(?)
2 Dead Space
8 Texas Chainsaw Massacre (?)
146 Heavenly Sword
167 Riddick
183 Okami
194 Jet Set Radio
160 Splinter Cell
195 HL2
16 Halo 3
179 Tomb Raider
164 Parappa the Rapper
186 Shadow Of the Colossus
127 Bioshock
119 Contra
94 Tetris
161 Assassin’s Creed
197 God of War
52 Wipeout
82 Rockband
129 Crysis
7 RE 5
122 Fallout 3
118 Killer 7
14 Halo 3
I have to say, I'm vastly underwhelmed by the Little Big Planet one. I'd much rather have been sent a random one.
On the other hand, well done EDGE art monkey for the rest of them. Bejesus are they good.
been there since issue TWO!. It came wrapped in plastic, cost a lot but was THE place to be as the industry went from 2D to 3D. It has had it's ups and downs which I wont go into, but it is still the best out there. It has become an online oasis away from the fanboy infested game sites such as gamespot and mercifully, people can speak their minds on the forums, which is very nice.
Been there since Issue 3x - man, I'm getting old. Still enjoy both video games and Edge, so life ain't half bad. Just half over ;)
Play is the closest US magazine but Edge IS Next Generation and is far better than Play. It is worth the extra money IMHO. Especially since it is almost all content especially compared to most US mags like EGM(RIP) and its ilk that are more than 50% advertisements.
I'm aware of Edge's legacy. I'll reserve comparisons of Edge and Play until I can actually read a few copies of Edge. It's been quite a few years since I last read Next-Gen. Play isn't overly-saturated with ads, unless you count Dave Halverson's tendency to gush over some upcoming niche title.
Also, a slight premium for a better mag is acceptable. 3x the standard issue copy is not. If it's in digital format, then it should cost *less* than the print copy; that's a key point which most publishers conveniently continue to forget when pricing digital.
Blimey, 199 issues?
That's gonna cost more then a months pocket money 'o.O
I can't wait to get this issue in the post.
Can we have slightly bigger views?
Then have a small competition to name all games and/or characters shown.
I've done a few, but they're the obvious/ visible ones!
Can't wait for my LBP one!
Crikey, it only seems like yesterday when I received Edge Issue 100! Time flies when you're having fun, huh?
Are there any plans to sell Edge in digital format through Zinio? There's a sample issue in Zinio format, but no sub is available through the Zinio service. I'd have subscribed already, but the cost of a US subscription is ridiculously overpriced at $72. The cost of a US-based magazine subscription in this genre is typically $20-25 per year.
I used to subscribe to the US-based Next-Gen before it was summarily executed due to its shortsighted publisher. Play Magazine is probably the closest thing to the Next-Gen of old.