Edge - Issue 183 - Christmas 2007

Features:

• Living Legends (We visit The Creative Assembly to discover how the studio behind Total War plans on invading consoles with Viking)
• Writing Fantasy (Steve Jackson, the man behind Fighting Fantasy and Games Workshop, talks about his career in gaming to date)
• Killing Fields (What makes a good multiplayer map? We go from Dust to Isolation to find out, taking advice from the best architects)
• Puzzle Quest (From those classic falling blocks to his new, twoplayer title, Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov discusses the art of puzzlers)
• The Making Of... Peggle (A relative newcomer to the puzzle scene, PopCap's game of pegs and balls has its roots in Japan's pachinko)
• The Race For Christmas Number One (Which games are in the running? And what are their chances?)
• City Of Games (We take a trip to Nottingham's second annual GameCity festival)
• Swings And Roundabouts (We talk to Keita Takahashi about his new game - and his playground plans)
• The Music Man (Bungie's Marty O'Donnell on audio and breaking away from Microsoft)
• Chasing The Mainstream (Nintendo's lifestyle press conference and its resolutely non-gamer vision)
• A Handheld Rebellion (Rebellion's Jason Kingsley talks about PSP games and speedy development)
• Portable Gaming's New Player (Apple's opening of its iPhone to third parties means it's game time)
• Incoming (New games, plus updates on games already on the radar, and IGOTM)

Including Previews of:

• Too Human (360)
• The Outsider (360, PC, PS3)
• The Club (360, PC, PS3)
• Devil May Cry 4 (360, PS3)
• Bionic Command (360, PC, PS3)
• Dead Space (360, PC, PS3)
• Sight Training (DS)
• Disaster: Day Of Crisis (Wii)
• Smash Bros Bros Brawl (Wii)
• Brutal Legend (360, PS3)
• Condemned 2: Bloodshot (360, PS3)
• Aliens VS Predators: Requiem (PSP)
• Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)
• Assassin's Creed (360, PC, PS3)
• Crysis (PC)
• Mass Effect (360)
• Call Of Duty 4 (360, PC, PS3)
• Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (360, PC, PS3)
• Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (360, PS2, PS3)
• The Simpsons Game (360, PS3)
• Zack & Wiki (Wii)
• The Witcher (PC)
• Bladestorm (360, PS3)
• Castlevania Dracula X (PSP)
• Silent Hill Origins (PSP)
• Hellgate: London (PC)
• Timeshift (360, PC, PS3)
• Mutant Storm Empire (360)
• Guitar Hero III (360, MAC, PC, PS2, PS3 Wii)
• Beowulf (360, PC, PSP, PS3)
• Need for Speed Prostreet (360, PC, PS2, PS3, PSP)