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

Epic vision • What does Fortnite Creative 2.0 mean for Epic’s plans of a metaversal future?

Catalog shopping • Sifting through the highlights of Panic’s new Playdate storefront

Pet project • AR, procedural generation and creature comforts coalesce in Niantic’s Peridot

Repeat pleasure • Jon Ingold on replayable stories, Inkle’s new game, and not making Overboard 2

DRAWING CARD • Five years since our first glimpse of its corrugated world, a second look at Amanita Design’s ambitious adventure

Soundbytes

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

Alternate Reality

The start of something new

DIABLO IV

VIEWFINDER • A picturesque puzzler with far more than one weird trick to show you

THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE: NECROM • Magic, memory and Morrowind: getting to the crux of it with 2023’s expansion

THE THAUMATURGE • Mystical investigations in early-20th-century Warsaw

THE BANISHED VAULT • An interstellar strategy that majors in science, maths and fine art

DORDOGNE

ROUNDUP

BUILT DIFFERENT • How Heart Machine’s Hyper Light sequel is breaking new ground for the open-world Roguelike

NET GAINS • Can Netflix become a gamepublishing powerhouse to match its ambitions in TV and film?

THE WISDOM OF CROWDS • The story of Humanity: how Enhance’s unique puzzler is seeking to recapture the spirit of early PlayStation

THE MAKING OF. . . WEIRD WEST • How a team of former Arkane devs wrangled an increasingly Wild West

KEOKEN INTER ACTIVE • From the kitchen table to the stars: how a pair of sibling dreamers achieved lift-off

PLAY

Misery business

Dead Island 2

Post Script

The Last Worker

Post Script

Deceive Inc

Everspace 2

Have A Nice Death

Terra Nil

The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR

Dredge

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries Of Honjo

The Wreck

Can Of Wormholes

Raiden III x Mikado Maniax

Final Fantasy XV

Citizen Sleeper