RabbidMickeyMouse

I'm interested to know what this report is implying, or how it connects better to previous articles, but I just can't think of anything. Sure, there are rumours about what his position means with EA, but what does his income and stock holdings hint at?

Dictionaries have the virtue of not changing (as a physical book), which can come in handy occasionally, but language isn't as rigid.

My problem with dictionaries today is similar to imagining if Wikipedia only updated itself every 18 months with its newest, revised edition.

The games are too expensive. $170+ in the States, let alone the outrageous pricing in places like Australia for these games is a problem. Sure, they sold millions, and they'll continue to sell, but they need to lower their prices to grab new customers, and stick to standard designs and guarantee compatibility between games (and better synchronized shipping dates for anyone not in the US).

If the genre continues shipping out more expensive bundles, new generations of games with minor changes (selling for $60 stand-alone), and peripherals with added functionality for the sake of being different, breaking compatibility between games, then we're left with the music rhythm genre market eating itself alive, with EA and Activision trying to separate their customers for the sake of winner-take-all, when in reality, they're safer sharing the field, if no one is a clear winner (or dignified loser).

There needs to be cheaper games, standards (5 buttons, strum, wah is all you need really) for future games and 3rd party companies, complete compatibility between game controllers, better outside-the-US release dates and pricing, and an iTunes type market that encourages artists to release GH/RB DLC in sync with their albums online (ie. below the "Download Album" button for an album online, you'll see a "Download X DLC for Y" button too), and let artists release DLC content by itself, or bundled with their albums even (through some kind of promo code).

I remember however, in an EDGE interview, his anxiety about getting other (non-MGS) work done quickly, like a fear of being 'over the hill'. While he says he'll make games until death, I wonder what his thoughts are about older game designers, or being one himself.

Are there many 60+ game producers/directors?

"I agree with Voltaire's view, but the line must be drawn somewhere and that somewhere is when your view infringes on others freedom."

Drawing lines and creating exceptions misses the whole point of what's said. Especially where "defend to the death" is concerned.

Aren't we missing something important in:

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

...when we go about demanding people should be killed for an exercise in THEIR freedoms of speech, however disagreeable they are?

Aren't we missing something important in:

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

...when we go about demanding people should be killed for an exercise in THEIR freedoms of speech, however disagreeable they are?

EDGE is the best gaming magazine available. I left reading EGM a while before it stopped because most of all, the ads. Those half page vertical ads during the reviews annoyed me the most. Sure, it may be premium space, but I'm tying to read! At one point I wanted to measure the area squared taken up by ads vs content. Never did anyhow, I just stopped reading.

EDGE has its share of ads of course, but the majority reside in the back of the magazine, but to some extent, as an amateur programmer, I enjoy reading them, since they're help wanted ads from game development companies. Ads speak to an audience, and help wanted ads from devs speaks better than TAG spray, or Doritos ads.

They're own material is well written, lengthy, and thought provoking reads. That's an easy enough thing to say, but instead of for example, as a quaint thought to remind ourselves about game manuals, in a one page splash in the back, with nothing much but a series of scans of old manuals for retronauts to look over, EDGE will spend a full article running 3-4 pages talking about their history and place in games. As an added bonus, the authors aren't credited with articles individually, which I can see people objecting to for various reasons, but I'm not interested in building favoritism with article authors, or create bias with the games' reviews, simply because X liked it or not.

Articles about the history of games, interviews with their creators are always a great read (as an amateur game programmer at least), or the editorials written in by three different people are always interesting (though, my more favorites authors no longer write for EDGE), or a forum section that isn't bent on making an example of every idiot that writes is nice to see for a change as well.

Finally, the design of the magazine is great. The large spreads of artwork, simplistic design in various areas, and collage work, to the smaller details of the larger dimensions of the magazine itself, to the thicker cover pages, all these details together make each issue a collectors item, as opposed to a disposable news rag.

Sure, its not all great. The higher price of 9 dollars (though EGM was 6 bucks, IIRC), only being able to buy it at Barnes & Noble, the articles either acting blase or romanticizing topics in the articles is a disappointment here and there.

Of all the magazines however, for what magazines can offer, EDGE is the best for gaming. EDGE may not have the best site, and I'm fine with that, I'm better off, but in my own opinion at least, I'd have to disagree with your opinion, Blkant.

Because they sell.

How old is that Hsu & Chan one? I remember reading that from a copy of EGM, IIRC, and I haven't read that magazine in years.