Edge - Issue 218 - September 2010

Features:

• To The Ends Of The Earth (Eco sim Fate Of The World lets you destroy the planet one polluted landmass at a time - or possibly save it)
• Opportunity Blocks (How NetDevil's Lego Universe hopes to take the MMOG apart and put it back together again, one brick at a time)
• Move Over (Microsoft and its band of motion-sensing devotees on how Kinect will change the way videogames are played)
• An Audience With... (Ian Livingstone. The Fighting Fantasy pioneer and Eidos life president talks Deus Ex, Tomb Raider and a career in games)
• Playing It Straight (After three decades of heterosexual heroes and heroines, is the game industry finally ready to make a 'gay' videogame?)
• Weather Report (How Gaikai is working towards a revolution in cloud-powered games)
• A Force For Change (Bioware's vice president on what The Old Republic brings to MMOGs)
• Ninja Master (Tomonobu Itagaki talks about making "the best game ever")
• Chores: The Revenge (We explore EpicWin, the app that gives you 200 XP for washing up)
• Bullet Points (Cave's shooter maestros on the art of bringing Espgaluda II to iPhone)
• Cabinet Making (Sega's Private Show reveals its latest innovations for the arcade)
• Playing With The Past (A trip through Tristan Donovan's Replay: The History Of Videogames)

Including Previews of:

• Castlevania: Lords Of Shadows (360, PS3)
• Dirt 3 (360, PC, PS3)
• Subversion (PC)
• Tumble (PS3)
• The Shoot (PS3)
• Kung Fu Rider (PS3)
• Start The Party (PS3)
• Sports Champions (PS3)
• Heavy Rain: Move Edition (PS3)
• Eyepet: Move Edition (PS3)
• LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)
• Assassins's Creed Brotherhood (360, PC, PS3)
• Captain Blood (360, PC)
• Off-Road Drive (360, PC)
• Shogun: Total War 2 (PC)
• Ghost Recon Future Soldier (360, PC, PS3)
• Men Of War: Vietnam (PC)
• Homefront (360, PC, PS3)
• Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (360, PS3, Wii)
• True Crime (360, PS3)
• Knights Contract (360, PS3)
• Splatterhouse (360, PS3)
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent (PC)
• DJ Hero 2 (360, PS3, Wii)
• Winta (iPhone)

Featuring Reviews of:

• Limbo (360)
• Deathspank (360, PS3)
• Ninety-Nine Nights 2 (360)
• Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent (iPhone, PC, Wii)
• X-Scape (DSi)
• Castlevania: Harmony Of Despair (360)
• Helsing's Fire (iPhone)
• Predators (iPhone)
• Sniper: Ghost Warrior (360, PC)
• Blacklight: Tango Down (360, PC, PS3)
• Pix'N Love Rush (iPhone)
• Puzzle Dimension (PC)
• Toy Story 3 (360, DS, PS3, Wii)
• Ancient Trader (360, PC)
• Tournament Of Legends (Wii)
• And Yet It Moves (Wii)
• Bearsworth Chaotic Conflicts (Wii)
• Bearsworth Puzzling Pages (Wii)