Edge - Issue 213 - April 2010

Features:

• Open World Confidential (Hard-boiled '40s detective fiction collides with cutting-edge character building in Team Bondi's LA Noire)
• Guns N' Robots (How Vanquish, the new production from Platinum Games and Shinji Mikami, is gearing up for an assault on the world)
• Let 'em Rip (Codemasters' spiritual sequal to Black has big guns, destructible environments and the title Bodycount)
• Popular Science (Continuring our series on the best games of the last decade, we visit City 17 and discover who our benefactors really are)
• The Money Game (The numbers are larger than 17 in this city. But why is there only one game company on the London Stock Exchange?)
• Broken Windows (How Microsoft's Games for Windows Live is throttling PC entertainment)
• Mapping Xbox 360's future (We talk to Aaron Greenberg about where Microsoft's console is headed)
• Beast Masters (The men behind Monster Hunter explain their journey to the west)
• Into Lionhead's Den (Peter Molyneux on Fable III, being a king, and the value of toilet humour)
• Horror Fiction (As Alan Wake makes his torchlit way to 360, we investigate his dark past)

Including Previews of:

• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
• Metroid: Other M (Wii)
• Alan Wake (360)
• Red Steel 2 (Wii)
• F1 2010 (360, PC, PS3)
• Lost Planet 2 (360, PS3)
• 3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3)
• Armored Core 5 (360, PS3)
• Two Worlds II (360, PC, PS3)
• Fable III (360)
• Dead To Rights: Retribution (360, PS3)
• Super Street Fighter IV (360, PC, PS3)
• Monster Hunter Frontier (360, PC)
• Monster Hunter Tri (Wii)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Final Fantasy XIII (360, PS3)
• God Of War 3 (PS3)
• Battlefield Bad Company 2 (360, PC, PS3)
• No More Heroes 2 (Wii)
• Aliens Vs Predators (360, PC, PS3)
• Yakuza 3 (PS3)
• Sakura Wars (PS2, Wii)
• Just Cause 2 (360, PC, PS3)
• The Adventures of PB Winterbottom (360)
• Calling (Wii)
• Infinite Space (DS)
• Alice In Wonderland (DS)
• BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (360, PS3)
• White Knight Chronicles (PS3)