Follow the future of interactive entertainment in our beautiful and responsive new iPad edition, which features Edge's award-winning coverage along with exclusive extra content and full Retina support.
Each page is designed specifically for the format, allowing you to highlight, search and share text. The edition can also display fullscreen HD video, screenshot galleries and animations.
The sampler contains articles from our issue that goes on sale on June 6, as well as some special extras. It includes its cover star, The Elder Scrolls Online, and a look at the cutting edge of AI, as well as reviews of Diablo III and Max Payne, and previews of Dishonored and Crysis 3.
Full issues of the Edge iPad edition will go on sale with the publication of issue 243 on July 4.
To get hold of the sampler, visit edge-online.com/ipad to access the App Store page for our free Edge container app. Install the app and inside you'll find the new iPad edition listed for download. For those who already have the container app, there's no need to update. And for those with iPhones, you'll remain downloading the existing digital edition of Edge.
To celebrate the launch of our iPad edition, we’re giving one lucky reader the chance to win their choice of either the new iPad (16GB, Wi-Fi), or £400 worth of iTunes vouchers. To enter and find out more, see the subscription page of the sampler.
We hope you enjoy the sampler - and please do let us know what you think in the comments.
Comments
19Please please please make a text-only version for Kindle!!
Great work Edge.
This is far easier on the eye than the prior digital editions of the magazine. My only genuine reservations about renewing my digital subscription through zinio was that the pages were *slightly* too small to be easily read on my tablet's screen, it simply wasn't as readable as the traditional hard copy. This new edition fixes that, and then some. Very promising preview - great to see Edge optimized for this format, rather than simply having the bare minimum.
Looking forward to subscribing through Newsstand this month!
Agreed! (on all of it).
Really like this sampler. Looks awesome on new iPad and love the mix of videos, images and styling.
Great work!!
One question, is I already subscribe to the print version of edge and would like to still get this but also have the enhanced copy on my pad. Will you be doing any combined subscription for existing printed subscribers??
The new iPad version looks amazing!
I have a question similar to the one above. If I'm already a subscriber through Newstand, will I get this as well or will it be a separate app? (I hope I get it :) )
You guys provide without a doubt the best content I could wish for.
Thanks for doing such a great job!
It's mostly great, but there are a couple of nagging UI issues, for example I constantly open the navigation pop up from the bottom when I'm scrolling Hype or Play articles.
Also I find it far nicer to read the features as they dedicate entire screens to layouts instead of scrolling
The sample edition is fantastic. This is how magazine iPad editions should be sold.
The only criticism, and it's a tiny criticism, is that the rising/dropping little banners are pretty irritating on every page & seem to be animating the page for the sake of it.
But like I said, this is a huge improvement & I'm looking forward to the full release in the July 4th edition.
Android version? please?
It's a lovely thing indeed.
It's convinced me to get my sub through my iPad instead of the paper version though.
I'll echo the call for an inclusive subscription to the print and iPad edition of EDGE, preferably without a price increase... WIRED have been doing an inclusive enhanced iPad edition for 'free' for a year, rewarding loyalty!
Agreed. As a subscriber I would like this to be included in my print copy. The new edition is fantastic. I've wanted a digital version of Edge like this for a long time :)
If you want some criticism, I'd say make those X's, the ones that close out the little blurb a tad bigger, or let me just click on anything else on the screen for the blurb to go away. Otherwise, great product.
Those mini-icons that show additional text are annoyingly small to hit. Please make them bigger, or show the text at all times. "Interactivity" doesn't mean that both designer and editor get their way (the first one wants a clean page, the second one wants all that text) while the reader has to suffer (who wishes to get his information quickly, without playing with annoying doodads).
On iPad3, I cannot scroll quickly through pages that contain some sort of start animation. What happens is that I arrive at the page, swipe to scroll, and nothing reacts. I wonder whether my swipe was registered at all. I swipe another time. Still nothing is happening. Then, a bit of the animation is starting in a stuttering fashion, followed by finally the expected page switch. That's not good enough. It's funny that a publication that chastises their subject matter for not responding quickly and having a good framerate doesn't hold itself to such high standards.
If you constrain yourself to just one orientation, make it landscape instead of portrait. You probably chose portrait because "it looks like a magazine". But we don't care about first looks, we care about content. And your main subject matter - game screenshots - is all landscape. Imagine having a spectacular game world landscape shot as the start of an article - right now you cannot have that. In the current issue, the section "The Art of Even Online" already feels constrained by the orientation: we cannot even see the full screenshots here. Please rethink this decision.
Hello. I'm one of the people who worked on the sampler. Thanks for the feedback – will definitely look at incorporating some of these ideas into the first full issue. Things like the caption buttons being too fiddly have already been noted and are simple fixes. Fair point about screenshots/orientation too.
I'd like to be able to at least click on the images and make them full screen. Otherwise, great work.
Great to hear, Timothy!
Pretty fantastic! A bit overly animated though. Not every article needs animation. Subtelty is key.