PC Gamer UK gets reboot (Wii)

The world’s premier PC gaming magazine, PC Gamer UKhas been revamped, redesigned and relaunched – the firstfull rebootsince 1993 – to reflect the changing face of PC gaming.

We asked Ross Atherton, editor of the mag to tell us what’s new…

“In a world full of delicious websites such as, I dunno, GamesRadar for example, why would people spend cash on games magazines?,” Atherton asks (while simultaneously andunexpectedlymassaging our ego).

Nintendo joins massive new UK games event (Wii)

It’s been a while since the UK had a proper, full-blown, full-fatgaming show. The London Games Festival has been doing a pretty good job over the last couple of years of course, but we haven’t really seen a big, shiney, focused extravaganza of digital excess since the days ofGame StarsLive. And that was a long time ago.

That mightchange thisyear though, as new event Game On! (gratuitous exclamation mark theirs, not ours) attempts to stomp all over the June page of the gaming calendar and make it its bitch. Headlined by HMV and organised by the UK eSports Association, the plan is to make the 20,000 capacity event the biggest consumer-friendly games fest in the country this year. And by the sounds of it they could be onto a winner.New games, so-new-they’re-not-even-finished-games, eye-popping tech and pro gaming will all be there in abundance, as now will Nintendo, having just confirmed their attendance.

27th Golden Joysticks is go! (Nintendo Wii)

The 27th AnnualGolden Joystick Awardsis alive! From today you can vote for your favourite games of the past year in the official awards long list and help us break records all over again.

If you remember rightly (and we do) 2008 was a recording breaking year for the Golden Joysticks. The final votes total stood at an amazing 856,262, the big winner of which was (deservedly) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare with four Awards.

Above:Girls loveGolden Joysticks. Fact

UK gets its own public game event ‘Game On! London’ (Nintendo Wii)

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

UK gets its own public game event ‘Game On! London’ (Nintendo Wii)

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

UK gets its own public game event ‘Game On! London’ (Nintendo Wii)

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

UK gets its own public game event ‘Game On! London’ (Nintendo Wii)

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

UK gets its own public game event ‘Game On! London’ (Nintendo Wii)

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

UK gets its own public game event ‘Game On! London’ (Nintendo Wii)

You might say that the UK is under-represented when it comes to public-access game events – shows where you can play previews of upcoming games and take part in multiplayer game tournaments. And pick up schwag.

The Germans get the yearly Game Convention, the Japanese Tokyo Game Show, the US the Penny Arcade Expo (regular punters still aren’t allowed access to E3) but gamers in the UK – not much, except the successful, but PC-centric PC Gamer Showdown.

200 Edge covers in 20 seconds (Streets of Rage)

Abe Lincoln. Charles Darwin. Edge. Between them they’ve mastered the realms of politics, science and writing about overweight Italian plumbers. And, more importantly than any of that, they’re now all 200. Yep, the long-running and respected games mag has just reached its 200th issue, celebrating the landmark event by publishing 200 unique covers.

So if you’re mad for Master Chief, delirious over Deus Ex or want to dip into the man-mashing nostalgia of Streets of Rage; Edge has you covered with their vast array of covers celebrating nearly 20 years of videogame culture. It’s subscribers who get the best deal, though, as they’ll be sent a special cover co-designed by the mag and LittleBigPlanet makers Media Molecule. Below we’ve included all 200 in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it 20 second video.