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

This is an Xbox • Microsoft commits to pushing its console branding everywhere, extending to handheld PCs from Asus

Adjacency bonus • It’s time to finally put the deck of cards to one side: tiles are the foundation of a burgeoning new genre

Sensible software? • How Swedish group Aonic is growing an ambitious stable of studios – and doing things differently from Embracer

MOTION PICTURES • A cursory glance is never enough in this art-based playground

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 SEPTEMBER

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

THE HOT 100 • THE BEST, BIGGEST AND OTHERWISE NOTABLE GAMES FROM THIS SUMMER’S BLOWOUT

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SPACE ODDITY • How Capcom’s singular sci-fi shooter is delivering on promises made lomg ago

ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROAM • Are open-world games one genre or many? And where are they headed?

STALKER 2: HEART OF CHORNOBYL • How GSC defied closure, the pandemic and an invasion to realise its most ambitious project

Q&A

DIGITAL ECLIPSE • The California company with an expert eye for repackaging game history

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Noses to the grindstone

Death Stranding 2: On The Beach

Post Script • Sublime or ridiculous? Why not both?

Mario Kart World

Post Script • Knockout Tour’s drive to survive is a game-changing delight

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The Alters

MindsEye

FBC: Firebreak

Dune: Awakening

Rematch

Splitgate 2

Date Everything!

Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour

Titanfall 2 • The rise and Titanic fall of the live-service game that wasn’t

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Hitman: World Of Assassination • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit

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