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.

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Under siege • The reality of game dev in the West Bank

Create new save point? • The GAMM museum in the heart of Rome shows that preservation is coming of age

JAM BAND • How Romeo And Juliet met Britain’s Got Talent for a true musical collage

Soundbytes • Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

ARCADE WATCH • Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene

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

Dialogue

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

The Outer Limits • Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

Narrative Engine • Write it like you stole it

HYPE

Power switch

THICK AS THIEVES • Not Thief 4, but Thief times four

KINGMAKERS • Time travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them

HOLSTIN • A pixel-art nightmare in post-Cold War Poland

PRISMA • The camera never lies – but it can change reality

TO A T • Keita Takahashi puts childhood and disability under the microscope

A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF ASOCIAL GIRAFFE • Trying not to stick your neck out

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CHANGING DESTINY • With Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Chinese studio Leenzee aims to soar to the heights of its field

BLOOD MONEY • Vampire Survivors kicked off a game development gold rush, but has a legitimately new genre emerged between the cash-ins?

COLLECTED WORKS TAKAYA IMAMURA • The creator of Star Fox, Captain Falcon and Tingle on 30 years at Nintendo and restarting as an indie

REDACTED • How a quest for the fast and the frenetic transformed survival horror into a comic-book Roguelike

HAREBRAINED SCHEMES • The former Paradox developer charts a course into a future without Shadowrun or BattleTech

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Critical timing

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

Post Script • Rolling with the changes

Eternal Strands

Post Script • Burning it all down

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Dynasty Warriors: Origins

Ender Magnolia: Bloom In The Mist

Caves Of Qud

Asterism

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The Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures • Technology has finally caught up with Nintendo’s trailblazing co-op adventure – so where is it?

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Donkey Kong Country Returns HD • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit

#408 • February 20