Lara Croft washes up on the shore of a new game in our latest issue, out May 10.
In issue 228 of Edge magazine, which will be available to pluck from UK newsagent’s shelves on May 10, we get marooned with Crystal Dynamics as it transforms one of gaming’s most cherished series, giving Lara Croft new life in Tomb Raider.
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A survey of the landscape and life forms that made Blizzard's MMOG the game of the decade.
Few games inspire the kind of deep nostalgia created by World Of Warcraft. Fewer still can make a playerbase so socially and culturally diverse as WOW’s reminisce so fondly at a past that’s only five years old.
No change at the top as EA-published sequel holds top spot at Mortal Kombat’s expense.
Portal 2 is the UK all-formats number one for the second week in a row, Valve’s excellent sequel once again seeing off the challenge of Warner Bros’ Mortal Kombat reboot.
The top ten is much the same as last week, with no new entries. Zumba Fitness continues its strong showing at number three, with Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint: Red River climbing two places to fourth.
Boosts social presence by snapping up San Francisco-based Facebook developer.
PopCap has strengthened the social gaming side of its business with the acquisition of San Francisco studio ZipZapPlay.
Services to begin return this week; Welcome Back programme to thank users for patience during downtime.
Kaz Hirai, executive deputy president of Sony, has apologised for the loss of the personal details of some 77 million PlayStation Network users and the service’s ongoing unavailability.
Admits potential loss of 24.6 million user accounts, 12,700 credit cards and 10,700 direct debit records.
Sony Online Entertainment’s game servers have been shut down temporarily, with the firm admitting that 12,700 users’ credit card data may have been taken during the recent attack on Sony’s servers.
We look at how Rockstar wrought havoc on an open world.
The royal wedding results in another four-day weekend.
As today is now a designated bank holiday in the UK, adding to Monday's existing holiday, we've decided to take advantage of the free time to catch up on all those uncompleted games.
We look back to when Bungie started the fight, and defined the console firstperson shooter.
Firm erred in hiring more lawyers instead of more security experts, claims PS3 hacker.
PlayStation 3 hacker George “Geohot” Hotz has offered his own take on Sony’s loss of 77 million customers’ personal information, saying that it is those that make the decisions – not those who design the security – who are at fault.
Movie streaming service sympathetic to PSN users’ plight; assures customers their personal data is secure.
Lovefilm, the movie streaming service normally available to PS3 owners through PlayStation Network, has moved to reassure its customers that their personal information is safe despite the attack on PSN, and told disgruntled users: “We’re as frustrated as you are.”
EA-published sequel straight in at number one, knocking Lego Star Wars from top spot.
Valve’s Portal 2 is evidently as popular in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway as it is in the UK – as was the case in this week’s UK chart, it’s the week’s highest new entry at number one.
Amazon has issued a response to the lawsuit filed by Apple last month over the retailer’s use of the phrase “app store” for its Android software marketplace, Amazon Appstore.
Battle And Get! Pokémon Typing DS goes straight in at the top as PSP regains hardware lead from 3DS.
The latest Media Create charts have a familiar look to them, with Pokémon back at the summit of the software charts and PSP the week’s best-selling hardware.
Promise of dramatic leaps in CPU and graphics processing in new Snapdragon chips, coming later this year.
Chip manufacturer Qualcomm says that its next-generation Snapdragon chips will see "console-quality gaming" on smartphones.
A leaked presentation, seen by Electronista, has Qualcomm promising that its MSM8270, MSM8930, MSM8960 and APQ8064 chips, based on future Krait architecture, will be as much as five times as fast as their predecessors in terms of CPU power and four times faster in graphics processing.
First lawsuit filed, accusing Sony of negligence and dragging its heels; seeks damages, credit card monitoring and class-action status.
An Alabama man has filed the first lawsuit against Sony over its loss of 77 million PlayStation Network users’ personal data.
Talent and select IP acquired from Wonderland Software as social studio continues its rapid expansion.
Social gaming firm Zynga has formed a dedicated UK studio, Zynga Mobile UK, after the acquisition of mobile developer Wonderland Software.
Zynga – which reaches over 265 million players each month on Facebook – has acquired talent and some IP from Wonderland, though its iOS title GodFinger was not part of the deal.
Insists it has seen no evidence of stolen credit card data, which was encrypted and stored in separate location to personal information.
Sony says that it hopes to have PSN up and running again, albeit in a limited capacity, within a week.
All our coverage of the digital service's ongoing outage and reported data breach in one place.
Below you'll find links to our coverage of the recent attack on Sony's digital service, along with expert and developer interviews on PSN's ongoing outage.
Senator Welcomes Sony's "Strong First Step"
Sony Delays PSN Return
Launches delayed as Sony's service remains offline, developers offer mixed reactions.
The ongoing PSN outage resulting from an "external intrusion" is beginning to affect developers as well as users. This has been especially true for studios whose games were scheduled for release this week.
Security expert urges those affected by digital service data breach to take defensive action rather than wait it out.
Streaming TV firm offers one week of credit to Hulu Plus subscribers unable to access service through PS3.
US TV streaming service Hulu is to compensate users who have been unable to access the service due to the ongoing PlayStation Network downtime.
In an email sent to Hulu Plus subscribers seen by gaming blog Kotaku, the firm points out that the service is available through a variety of other devices before telling customers that they will be compensated anyway.
Yet another milestone falls to indie success story, just three months after it hit a million.
Indie hit Minecraft has passed two million sales, creator Markus “Notch” Persson has announced.
But information rights body ICO says under UK law Sony terms are not applicable; is threatening penalty of £500,000.
Under the UK's Data Protection Act, any individual or company which handles personal information (including names, email addresses and payment details) is required to keep that information secure, but Sony's PSN terms and conditions suggest otherwise:
