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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 Tony Mott. Other regular contributors to the magazine include My Life In Orange author Tim Guest, ex-games journalist Gary Penn and Digitiser founder "Mr Biffo". 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
.

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.

Super Mario 64, Nintendo 64
(E35)
Gran Turismo, Sony
PlayStation
(E55)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Nintendo 64
(E66)
Halo: Combat Evolved, Microsoft
Xbox
(E105)
Half-Life 2, Windows
PC (E143)

Posthumous Awards

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

Elite (originally released in 1984)
Exile (originally released in 1988)

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

Posthumous Awards

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