EDGE MAGAZINE

The Making Of: Cannon Fodder

Edge Staff — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:07:36 +0000

Format: Amiga, ST
Release: 1993
Publisher: Virgin
Developer: Sensible Software

Review: Assassin's Creed II

Edge Staff — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:53:46 +0000

Format: 360, PS3 (version tested)
Release: Out now (US), November 20 (Euro)
Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
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Review: Left 4 Dead 2

Edge Staff — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:09:04 +0000

Format: 360, PC
Release: Out now (PC and US 360) November 20 (Euro 360)
Publisher: Valve (Steam), EA (Retail)
Developer: Valve
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Time Extend: The Nomad Soul

Edge Staff — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:45:38 +0000

It was during David Bowie’s self-awarded year off that Quantic Dream – “a couple of French charmers and an Irishman,” as he would later remember – requested his knack for reinvention be applied to their videogame. Conceptually, The Nomad Soul might have seemed a statement of the obvious, that the lot of gamers is to wander nomadically from one imagined universe to the next, from one character incarnation to another.

The Making Of: Micro Machines

Edge Staff — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:09:55 +0000

Format: NES
Release: 1991 (US), 1992 (UK)
Publisher: Camerica/Codemasters (US), Codemasters (UK)
Developer: In-house

Time Extend: Radiant Silvergun

Edge Staff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:30:24 +0000

If you want to play Radiant Silvergun – and in a few hundred words you may – you’ll need two things: a Japanese Saturn and a spare £100. Everyone has tales to tell of the arms and legs they’ve paid for a longed-for game, whether it was stomaching £65 for Mario 64 or handing over £90 to an unscrupulous indie for a ‘rare’ copy of Super Street Fighter II.

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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