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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Speak up • Videogame actors explain why they won’t stand for AI

Bard choices • The first videogame from the Royal Shakespeare Company transplants Macbeth into modern Iran

Games done quick • With over 100 games on its CV, developer collective Sokpop is well set to make 100 more

Fantastic four • Each member of Sokpop explains one of their favourite creations

RAT WITH A GAT • A cartoon detective shooter that isn’t taking the Mickey

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

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 • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

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ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN • Going on the run with FromSoftware’s unexpected spinoff

HIROGAMI • The Bandai Namco studio turning over a new leaf with a papercraft platformer

ABSOLUM • Dotemu lets the beat-’em-up go Rogue for its first original IP

CHIP ’N CLAWZ VS THE BRAINIOIDS • Strategy master Julian Gollop makes a tactical switch

SOLASTA II • A true 3D sequel: dungeons, dragons and dice

CRESCENT COUNTY • A broomstick bildungsroman

JANET DEMORNAY IS A SLUMLORD (AND A WITCH) • Black magic meets black mould in this renter’s nightmare

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PIECE OF MIND • Leslie Benzies’ first game since GTAV is refreshingly old-fashioned – even as it makes way for an ambitious future

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COLLECTED WORKS MARK HEALEY • The coder with an artist’s flair on 8bit beginnings, making a splash with UGC, and returning to the god game genre

ALL HANDS ON DECKS • The PC handheld scene is exploding, but can Valve’s Steam Deck be toppled?

PORTABLE PERMUTATIONS • COMPARING TODAY’S MOST NOTABLE PC GAME DECKS

Q + A : MANUEL LINNIG, MARKETING DIRECTOR, ACER • WHAT MOTIVATED ACER TO GO SUPER-SIZED WITH ITS NITRO BLAZE 11?

1000 X RESIST • How the pandemic propelled a team of performance-arts practitioners into a new dystopian future

SABOTAGE STUDIO • How remodelling the past for modern audiences turned Québécois dreams into reality

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

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Post Script • Is there more to life than hit points?

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii

Post Script • Never mind the quality, feel the thrift

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