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If'n you're an old fogey like myself, you'll most likely remember Next Gen magazine (and nextgen.com) as the US equivalent of the UK's long-running and excellent EDGE Magazine. EDGE is to games journalism what the New York Times is/was to newspaper journalism: thoughtful, well-written, intelligent, the benchmark for its field and filled with information on interactive entertainment (much more than simple games!) that broke long before appearing anywhere else. It's tough to get the mag here in North America without having to pay through the nose for it, but it's well worth the read, and an argument for why magazines still have a place in our online world -- mostly because it's not written by idiots, as most of the internet is. Fortunately for us cheapos, the EDGE brand has been recently revived online, taking over for the slightly anemic Next-Gen.biz, which never really seemed to get off the ground to the extent that it should have. The Edge crew are notoriously tough on games, demanding that developers and publishers step to the levels of quality, design and entertainment that should be mandated universally. With that said, go read their review of the arcade version of Street Fighter IV. Wow.