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

Playing with fire • From Microsoft’s cloud servers to EA’s new owners in Riyadh, the industry is testing players’ consciences

Room to breathe • Against a tough industry backdrop, Airlock Games has a plan for making game production more sustainable

Opening the industry to all • How is the IDGA Foundation pushing for a more global, diverse set of game-makers?

BACK TO LIFE • Herobeat Studios hopes for redemption in the face of environmental collapse

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

DISPATCHES CHRISTMAS

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

Making it weird

HELL LET LOOSE: VIETNAM • A tougher, smarter FPS where kills hardly matter

SLEEP AWAKE • An experimental, mind-bending night terror

TUROK: ORIGINS • Three’s a crowd? Not for hunting dinosaurs

THERE ARE NO GHOSTS AT THE GRAND • DIY made easy, and weird

ASTROBOTANICA • Dodos plus aliens? In the Pleistocene, anything is possible

HORSES • Don’t have night-mares

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RETRY.EXE • Inside the long and gruelling journey of Lunar Software’s sinister scih horror

FEAR EFFECT • From Crow Country to Resident Evil 9, horror games are still in their ascendancy. But what are the tricks behind making players scared? And can the popularity last?

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COLLECTED WORKS JERK GUSTAFSSON • From making Quake maps to reviving Wolfenstein, with a master of firstperson videogame design

THE OUTLAST TRIALS • Smirking, sinister and sadistic, Red Barrels’ gruesome multiplayer experiment became its biggest hit

SNAPSHOT GAMES • Inspired by a close-knit dev scene, the man behind XCOM has a fresh strategy

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Battlefield 6

Post Script • Battlefield 6’s singleplayer offering wouldn’t have matched Call Of Duty in 2011

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Ninja Gaiden 4

Post Script • The art of not fighting

Hades II

Absolum

Little Nightmares III

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Stray Children

Keeper

Baby Steps

Ball X Pit

Spooky Express

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Dreams Of Another

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Godbreakers

Resident Evil • Almost three decades on, the defining survival horror game has much more to offer than scares

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THE LONG GAME • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit

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