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

Pending resolution • The demise of Monolith Productions highlights a rising threat – both real and imagined – of gameplay patents

People versus the machine • This year’s GDC focused on human solutions, boutique development, and the state of AI

Donkey throng • Asses.masses is a seven-hour game played by an audience of hundreds

CAN YOU DIG IT? • An invitation to burrow deep and face your fears

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 JUNE

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

HYPE • THE GAMES IN OUR SIGHTS THIS MONTH

FBC: FIREBREAK • Can Remedy go multiplayer without losing Control?

BLADES OF FIRE • MercurySteam forges ahead with a steely fantasy adventure

PATHOLOGIC 3 • Terminus Est

STEEL HUNTERS • Replacing tanks and warships with the joy of mechs

NINJA GAIDEN: RAGEBOUND • Dotemu’s spinoff goes back, sideways and somewhere new

CONSUME ME • WarioWare meets diet culture in IGF’s Grand Prize winner

ROUNDUP

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#410 • VIDEOGAME CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY

NEW DAWN • A trip to Silent Hill reinvigorated Bloober Team. Now the Polish horror studio is ready for its homecoming

Q+A: MACIEJ ANTOSIEWICZ • HEAD OF CINEMATICS AND MOTION CAPTURE

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PERFECT PITCH • Sifu’s developer moves the goalposts with Rematch

RICHARD GARFIELD • The creator of Magic: The Gathering on card games, videogames and gameshows

THE MAKING OF … AMNESIA: THE BUNKER • How a gun, a generator and a pocket watch cranked up Frictional’s horror

SANTA RAGIONE • An Italian studio’s quest to insert unusual stories in unexpected places

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Assassin’s Creed: Shadows

Post Script • Diversity and exclusion?

Atomfall

Post Script • The delicious apocalypse

Blue Prince

Post Script • The key ingredient for greatness: is it a mystery?

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South Of Midnight

The First Berserker: Khazan

Promise Mascot Agency

Commandos: Origins

FragPunk

Despelote

Sonokuni

Koira

Half-Life: Alyx • Back to City 17 for Half-Life 2: Episode 3 by another name

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit

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