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EDGE
Power and responsibility • Is the industry heading for a crash? And, if so, who’s going to do something about it?
Taken to Task • How opportunity for improvisation is helping TV’s most beloved gameshow work in VR
Recalibrating PlayStation 5 • How Sony’s PlayStation Access makes its flagship console friendlier to more players
FEAT OF CLAY • Plasticine stop-motion horror adventure Visceratum promises to disturb and delight in equal measure
Soundbytes • Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls
THIS MONTH ON EDGE • Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else
Dialogue • Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’ as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com. Our letter of the month wins an exclusive Edge T-shirt
Trigger Happy
The Outer Limits
Narrative Engine
Giving the game away
ONCE HUMAN
LOST RECORDS: BLOOM & RAGE
NIRVANA NOIR
THRASHER • This serpentine successor is a slipper y beast indeed
CHASING THE UNSEEN • Standing on the shoulders (and various other parts) of giants
DARKWEB STREAMER
TOTAL FILM
APOCALY PSE NOW • How Sharkmob plans to shake up the extraction shooter with the help of Mother Nature
FLYING SOLO
IKUMI NAK A MUR A • From artist to studio head, how Unseen’s CEO is breaking boundaries and borders
HALO WARS • How Ensemble’s final game went from skunkworks experiment to part of Microsoft’s biggest series
FOOL’S THEORY • How a studio in Poland’s secluded south caught the eyes of Larian, 11 Bit and CD Projekt Red
PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS
The Finals
Post Script
Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown
Asgard’s Wrath 2
Another Code: Recollection
Go Mecha Ball
Home Safety Hotline
Raindrop Sprinters
Rock Band 4 • Harmonix’s swan song for the plastic-instrument era lives on
THE LONG GAME