Edge

The authority on videogame art, design and play, Edge is the must-have companion for game industry professionals, aspiring game-makers and super-committed hobbyists. Its mission is to celebrate the best in interactive entertainment today and identify the most important developments of tomorrow, providing the most trusted, in-depth editorial in the business via unparalleled access to the developers and technologies that make videogames the world’s most dynamic form of entertainment.

And then the car was also a submarine, but made of jelly

EDGE

Deal of the decade • Microsoft’s Activision plan satisfies US courts and (most) third parties thanks to a series of ten-year concessions

Video gaze • Why has an assistive technology firm released a compilation of minigames?

Final inning

Help to identify the 100 greatest • We want the finest games available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now

RESISTOR

GHOST TRICKS • Use spectral powers to explore a beguiling, hand-crafted afterlife in Hauntii

Soundbytes • Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

ARCADE WATCH

THIS MONTH ON EDGE • Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

DISPATCHES OCTOBER

Trigger Happy

Alternate Reality

ON SALE NOW!

What lies beneath

LORDS OF THE FALLEN

FOREVER SKIES • Surviving and adapting in the wake of ecological collapse

BOUNTY STAR

LAIKA: AGED THROUGH BLOOD

DESPELOTE

LORELEI AND THE LASER EYES

ROUNDUP

Magazine FX

S ABOVE SO BELO • After 13 years, Remedy is ready to make the game of its dreams

SILENCE IS GORDON • Why does the mute protagonist still loom large over the landscape of firstperson-viewed games?

DREAM TICKET • As Media Molecule prepares to move on, we get the inside track on Tren, its spectacular swan song for Dreams

Imagination station

HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER • How Blackbird Interactive cracked the formula for a sci-fi tale of dystopian deconstruction

DA MBUSTER STUDIOS • How the former Free Radical found the fun amid corporate crises

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Exoprimal

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Pikmin 4

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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

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Atlas Fallen

The Banished Vault

Jagged Alliance 3

Remnant II

Videoverse

Viewfinder

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

Sludge Life 2

Dragon’s Lair

Hi-Fi Rush • Developer Tango Gameworks Publisher Bethesda Softworks Format PC, Xbox Series Release January 2023