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Edge is a multi-format computer and video game magazine published by Future Publishing in the United Kingdom. It is well known for its industry contacts, uncompromising editorial stance (which has frequently given it problems in obtaining pre-release review code for games), yearly awards, and longevity. The magazine is very strict in its scoring; it was several years before any game was given a ten-out-of-ten rating, and the scores it grants major games are often controversial. In 2003 it celebrated its tenth anniversary.

The magazine was launched by Steve Jarratt, a long-time videogames journalist who has launched many different magazines for Future. The current editor is Margaret Robertson. Other regular contributors to the magazine include My Life In Orange author Tim Guest, Digitiser founder "Mr Biffo" and game developer Jeff Minter. Previous columnists have included Trigger Happy author Steven Poole, who chose to end his column after issue 148 (marked April 2005), and Toshihiro Nagoshi of Sega's Amusement Vision, whose column appears to have been on hiatus since issue 142 (November 2004). Artwork for the cover of the magazine's hundredth issue was specially provided by Shigeru Miyamoto.

A forerunner of the magazine was ACE and its main competitor is Games™. Between 1995 and 2002, some of the content from the UK edition of Edge was published in the United States as Next Generation.

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Spanish Edition

A localised edition of Edge was launched in Spain on April 15, 2006 by publisher Globus, with an initial run of 50,000 copies for the first issue[[Citing sources citation needed]]. It is essentially a translated version of the original magazine with a few additional articles and extra reviews of games that fit the tastes of Spanish audiences.

The translation is very poor usually making the magazine hard to read, and completely incomprehensible in some cases due to the translators lack of knowledge about the videogames industry. The local writers are unskilled compared to the professionals of the original Edge version. "Globus" didn't hire any experienced writers but re-uses and shares some staff from the "On/Off" editorial , a "Globus" magazine about DVD video and consumer technology, not in any way related to videogames .

The spanish edition arrives at least one month later than the original, so the latest spanish issue is the translation of the english one released one month ago. It usually removes some articles from the "current" english issue adding others from months ago, and the actual cover can also be replaced with an older one. The second issue (May 2006) features an old and outdated PS3 main article and cover from months ago. It also lacks of some articles from the "current" (April 2006) UK edition, like the Virtua Fighter 5 one .

All in all, the spanish edition has only kept the Edge name from the Edge publication, having a bad reception from the people that expected it to be on the same level as the original.

List of games receiving a \"ten out of ten\" score

It was almost three years before Edge gave a game a rating of "ten-out-of-ten". The magazine has only awarded this score—which prior to issue 143 was defined as "revolutionary"—to five games:

Posthumous Awards

In December 2002, Edge awarded posthumous "ten-out-of-ten" ratings to the following titles:

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