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

All hands on Deck • As the portable PC race hots up, we weigh up two rivals to Valve’s game-changing handheld

Creative crucible • The creator of Shadowrun returns with Adventure Forge, an entirely code-free game-creation kit

Gathering of developers • This year’s Develop conference in Brighton features an abundance of game-making talent

THE COSMIC GARDENER • Cultivate and annihilate as a spacefaring Monty Don in Hadoque’s Ultros

Soundbytes

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

DISPATCHES AUGUST

Trigger Happy

Alternate Reality

You take what you give

COCOON

COUNTER-STRIKE 2

BLASPHEMOUS 2

SALTSEA CHRONICLES

STRAY GODS: THE ROLEPLAYING MUSICAL

TIMES & GALAXY

FAIRGAME$

SWORD OF THE SEA

NEVA

ALONE IN THE DARK

DRAGON’S DOGMA 2

DEEP TROUBLE • The Chinese Room drills into a rich vein of ’70s horror in terrifying first person chiller Still Wakes The Deep

SYNATIC LEAP

HENRIQUE OLIFIERS • The Bossa boss on selling off hits, doubling down on co-op, and reinventing the ZX Spectrum

THE MAKING OF... • A game made in the margins

ENDNIGHT GAMES • How The Forest gave a tiny studio an outsized success

You’re welcome

Street Fighter 6

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Diablo IV

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System Shock

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Miasma Chronicles

Amnesia: The Bunker

After Us

Firmament

The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum

What The Car?

Mask Of The Rose

X-Com: UFO Defense

The Case Of The Golden Idol