Edge - Issue 224 - February 2011

Features:

• The Science Of Usability (How specialists are working to ensure that today's games are tested to previously unexplored extremes)
• Winning Streak (Arc System Works reveals the passion that has fueled the creation of some of the world's finest fighting games)
• Modern Warfare (Combat has evolved, and a new breed of first-person shooter is preparing to take to the battlefield of 2011)
• A Call To Arms (Inside the motion-control revolution that has captured a new audience and rewritten the rules of development)
• The Making Of... (The Last Express. Jordan Mechner's often-overlooked masterpiece of mystery on board the Orient Express)
• The Road Ahead (The challenges and opportunities for the game industry in 2011)
• Ready, Set, Go (How Microsoft Research taught Xbox 360 to play like a human)
• A Man And His Code (One-man outfit Radiangames on Xbox Live Indie ambitions)
• Cabinet Makers (Talking coin-ops with the men behind Darius Burst: Another Chronicle)
• Dungeon Seized (How Obsidian Entertainment is taking control of Dungeon Siege)

Including Previews of:

• Total War: Shogun 2 (PC)
• Dungeon Siege III (360, PC, PS3)
• Marvel Vs Capcom 2 (360, PS3)
• Swarm (360, PS3)
• Diablo III (MAC, PC)
• Spyparty (TBA)
• Putty Squad (iPhone, PSP, PS3)
• Dr Kawashima's Body & Brain Exercises (360)
• Seiso Koki Strania (360)
• Lego Star Wars III (360, PS3, Wii)
• Mush (Windows Phone 7)
• Confetti Carnival (360, PC, PS3)

Featuring Reviews of:

• LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3)
• Dead Space 2 (360, PS3)
• Infinity Blade (iPhone)
• Nail'd (360, PC, PS3)
• Gray Matter (360, PC)
• Echochrome II (PS3)
• Under Siege (PS3)
• Ni No Kuni: Shikkoku No Madoushi (DS)
• 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (DS)
• Eat Them (PS3)
• Ghost Trick (DS)
• Lilt Line (iPhone, Wii)