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THE WHITE COVER ERA DAVID WILDGOOSE, OUR SECOND EDITOR AND AN ISSUE 1 ORIGINAL LOOKS BACK AT HIS TIME AS EDITOR, SPANNING 2000 TO 2012.

SONIC SCHMONIC

y memory of how long it took to get that first issue out the door is understandably hazy. But it felt like no time at all. One day we were on Hyper, digging trenches in the nascent 32-bit console wars, and the next day we were celebrating a ceasefire, relieved to never have to think about Sonic the Hedgehog again. I can't even remember what I wrote in that first issue. Did I review a Descent game? Possibly. Some sort of first-person sci-fi shooter from Bethesda? Some things have

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