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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Platform games • What does Xbox’s multiformat future mean for consoles?

Making it so • Inside Bridge Command, a life-sized starship ready to propel you into space

Changing tunes • How a classical composer’s innovative technology aims to revolutionise videogame soundtracks

Letters of note • How Kind Words’ unexpected success paved the way for a sequel that takes players outside

WORK OF ART • Your environment becomes your canvas in Impossible’s summer y painting adventure, Été

ARCADE WATCH • Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene

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

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Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

Narrative Engine • Write it like you stole it

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NO REST FOR THE WICKED

PONY ISLAND 2: PANDA CIRCUS

ARRANGER: A ROLE-PUZZLING ADVENTURE

CATACLISMO

CRYPTMASTER

ANIMAL WELL

ROUNDUP

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SLEEPERHIT • A world-exclusive look at Star ward Vector, the indie RPG sequel with Mass Effect in its sights

THE ORIGINS OF TRIPLE-A • The origins of three little letters that have shaped an industry

PAU L GOUGE • What to do when EA buys your studio for $1.4bn? Start all over again, of course

FINAL FANTASY XVI • How action led the way in reinventing the long-running RPG series

AKUPARA GAMES • Helping others find success, from empowering modders to romancing Colonel Sanders

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth

Post Script • You can never tell the same story twice (contains spoilers)

Unicorn Overlord

Post Script • Uniting a world through redemption and reconciliation

Helldivers 2

Skull And Bones

Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

Penny’s Big Breakaway

Foamstars

Splatoon 3: Side Order

Inkulinati

Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior

The Talos Principle • How a thirst for story telling helped us come to terms with human extinction

Hitman 3 • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit