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Falling blocs • How the battle for Tetris became a Cold War thriller
Forging ahead • Inside the Ubisoft R&D department investigating AI’s potential throughout game development
Machine music • Techno producer Remute returns to Sega’s Mega Drive – this time, to make his first game
POTTER’S FIELD • Ian Zell’s solo indie project shows real guts
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
DISPATCHES MAY • 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 • Shoot first, ask questions later
Alternate Reality • Notes from videogaming’s borders
Butterfly effect
REDFALL • Arkane vamps it up in its open-world co-op shooter
FINAL FANTASY XVI • Purists may cry as the RPG series embraces action
THE FINALS • Fame and fortune await – if you don’t get flattened first
EUROPA • This Ghibli-inspired adventure looks positively dreamy
SHADOWS OF DOUBT • Sending the investigation genre in a whole new direction
RHYTHM STORM • Rebel against the beat in this pulsating arcade Roguelike
ROUNDUP
EVERY THING EVERY WHERE ALL AT ONCE • How Leslie Benzies and a team of former Rockstars are building an all-encompassing multiverse
REDEMPTION SONG • After Us explores the difficulty of telling stories of apocalypse and reparation through the lens of an action game
AN AUDIENCE WITH… GOICHI SUDA • Grasshopper Manufacture’s founder talks creativity, counterculture, and becoming a “weird old dude”
METAL: HELLSINGER • From a cancelled project to locked-down singers: how the heavy-metal shooter was forged
ASOBO STUDIO • The journey from Garfield and Pixar tie-ins to A Plague Tale and Flight Simulator
Resident Evil 4
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Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
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Tchia
Wild Hearts
Octopath Traveler II
Company Of Heroes 3
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza And The Lost Demon
Horizon: Call Of The Mountain
Song In The Smoke: Rekindled
Scars Above
Storyteller
Backbeat
King Of The Castle
Kirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe
Blanc
Dishonored: The Knife Of Dunwall
Red Dead Online