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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Edge

Ignition Switch • A muted Switch 2 reveal emphasises continuity over innovation. Could that be exactly what’s required?

Capital ideas • As it reaches its tenth anniversary, London Games Festival is expanding its horizons

A theory of funds • How Draknek is focusing on impact with its New Voices Puzzle Grant

The class of 2024/25 • A brief rundown of the latest recipients of New Voices Puzzle Grants

FOUND FOOTAGE • On TikTok, memory and videogame aesthetics collide

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

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Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE SCI-FI, FANTASY & HORROR MAGAZINE

Live to fight another day

ASSASSIN’S CREED: SHADOWS • Two’s company?

COMMANDOS: ORIGINS • The tactics classic returns with a taste of island life

ENTER THE CHRONOSPHERE • Dodge, shoot, pause for thought

HENRY HALFHEAD • Where’s your head at?

TEMPEST RISING • Heading to the future for a very ’90s war

DEATH HOWL • A gloomy deckbuilding odyssey and an accidental Soulslike

ROUNDUP

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HEAVY HITTER • Doom looks to the past for its biggest – and weightiest – iteration yet

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GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE • Uncovering the secrets of Animal Well, Tunic and UFO 50

STAINLESS STEEL • From one Extremes to another: how Warframe went from six-month ‘Hail Mary’ to a decade-plus of success

THE MAKING OF ARCO • How a ramshackle gang of indie developers formed over three continents to produce an epic reverse western

Q&A

CROTEAM • How a gaggle of football fans became the self-appointed national dev team of Croatia

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Making history

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Post Script • Sword art offline

Avowed

Post Script • Bad meaning good?

FOR PEOPLE WHO ♥ RETRO GAMES

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII

Post Script • Is diversity enough to solve Civilization’s problems with history?

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Sniper Elite: Resistance

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders

Keep Driving

Tails Of Iron 2: Whiskers Of Winter

TRAVEL BACK TO THE ERA WHEN PIXELS AND POLYGONS TOOK OVER THE WORLD • Inside this Nineties nostalgia-packed special edition from the makers of Retro Gamer, explore the best moments, games, hardware and more from videogaming’s greatest decade!

Rift Of The Necrodancer

Afterlove EP

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

Sludge Life • Peer through the haze to discover a game that makes you ask some surprisingly sharp questions

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Darkest Dungeon II • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit