Edge magazine Erfahrungen und Bewertung

app contains massive flaws: it's not possible to in-app buy and download the special "20th anniversary edition: the best of edge". even if you write to future publishing about this - don't expect any feedback from uk. i'm absoloutly disappointed by future publishing support. 1/10 edges.

So viel zu gratis, beim Start Shop mit kostenflichtigen Ausgaben vor die Nase gesetzt bekommen.
Probeausgabe gibts keine.
Direkt wieder gelöscht um eventuelle versteckte Kosten zu vermeiden, die klein am ende des Text stehen.

I have been reading EDGE on and off since 1995. When Future Publishing announced an iPad version of its flagship games magazine I immediately downloaded the app and took on a yearly subscription. I guess that was a mistake. While I still love its editorial content, EDGE just does not make a very comfortable read on the iPad. In the end all there is is an embedded PDF of the issue. And don´t get me started on how crap it looks on the iPhone.

I understand that publishers do not wish to spend too much money when transferring their content on Apple´s iDevices. But I very much doubt if this app will widen the readership of the magazine in the long run.

Look at the fantastic Guardian iPad app, and the get back to the drawing board! This just doesn´t cut it for me.

If things don´t get any better I´ll be sure to cancel my subscription.

I understand the idea to use the iPads capabilities for interactive or animated stuff. But what you did here is a step in the wrong direction:
- I have to wait until the page animation is completed to read the page title?! Are you serious? You lost 2 stars with this "feature"
- sometimes I can scroll through an image gallery - sometimes I have to open and close each individual image. Why?! Lost one star for this "usability improvement"
- 1 The new magazine is too big! What did you put in there? It takes far too long to download. Another star lost.

Please, rethink your new interactive magazine. For me, the usability is a lot worse than on the old magazine.

This is not about the magazine EDGE, which is great...but it is a shame that the app cant live up to that. I do have severe problems to reach the online-store, so I cannot buy the magazine. And technically this app is far away from being at the e-magazine standard. It doesnt even have bookmarks! Check out the pixelmags-apps, the RETRO GAMER for example...thats the way it should be done.

Ich hätte die Edge gern gelesen (ist ja als Druckausgabe kaum zu bekommen bei uns), aber 4€ für ein Pdf ist zuviel. Noch nicht mal das Inhaltsverzeichnis ist mit den Artikeln verlinkt - man muß selber hinblättern...

A few issues ago, Edge switched from digital copy to interactive edition. This wouldn't be so bad if it would still be possible to download the digital copy instead - for people like me who just want to _read_ the mag and don't want to waste 650 MB for interactive nonsense. Unfortunately, since issue #243, Edge is only available as an interactive edition in Newsstand - which is not what I subscribed and paid for half a year ago. If you want a digital copy, you have to go back to Zinio. Of course, there is no way to transfer a subscription from one to another. Still the best videogame magazine on the planet, though.

Aktuell gibt es eine Ausgabe gratis.
Die EDGE gehört einfach mit zum Besten was es im Bereich Videospielmagazin gibt! Das Design ist den deutschen Magazinen um Längen voraus und die Berichterstattung ist 1A. Ich lese sie gerne von vorne bis hinten.
Einziger Nachteil, nur eine eingebettete PDF ohne media Inhalte, ich hoffe das bessert sich noch.

These guys go in depth. They have no clue how to write a preview and are sometimes lacking structure, but their features are the best in the entire media world. It's probably the only cultural gaming magazine in the market right now.

The mag looks great, nice multimedia. This is the future of interactive magazines. Nice work.

Super App

Tank you very much for bringing the world's best video game magazine to the iPad! Reading the interactive edition is a wonderful experience and I will never buy paper magazines again. Keep up the good work!