Edge

The world’s most respected multiformat videogame magazine. Edge delivers incisive, intelligent writing and stunning designs with extensive news, interviews and preview sections. Edge is independent, intelligent, informative, and delivered with unrivaled design values.

EDGE

Impossible year • Reflecting on a terrible, yet undeniably transformative 12 months in games, and where it might lead

SMALL IS BETTER

GIVE ‘EM ENOUGH ROPE • Looking bock on a very strange year for Nintendo

Gated community • Inside Dim Bulb Games’ gallery of lockpicking mechanics, and what it might mean for games

THAT’S BAIT • Why stop at one museum? There’s a world of mechanics

HOMESICK BLUES • Nautilus Games’ subterranean platformer shuns violence

Soundbytes • Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

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

THIS MONTH ON EDGE • When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this

DISPATCHES JANUARY

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

Unreliable Narrator • Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales

Turn and face the strange

MOST WANTED

HITMAN 3 • Agent 47’s big finish is a fresh start for his creators

A load off

GOODBYE VOLCANO HIGH • Ko-op scales up for a bittersweet ode to youthful impulse

Feedback loop

Closed-door policy

SHADOWS OF DOUBT • A detective procedural

INSCRYPTION • Cards of darkness

Cabin fever

WOBBLEDOGS • A pet management game that’s both bright and dark

Sim-ilar lines

ROUND-UP

kingdom come • Exploring Hollow Knight: Silksong, Team Cherry’s sharply refined sequel to a modern classic

SEED MONEY

HOP TO IT

LYNCH PIN

BRAVE NEW WORLDS

THE EDGE AWARDS

TRAILBLAZER AWARD DREAMS

REVOLUTION AWARD HADES

ZEITGEIST AWARD ANIMAL CROSSING NEW HORIZONS

YOU HAD TO BE THERE AWARD HALF-LIFE: ALYX

BLOCKBUSTER AWARD THE LAST OF US PART II

ARTISAN AWARD SIGNS OF THE SOJOURNER

WORLDBUILDING AWARD PARADISE KILLER

HOMECOMING AWARD KENTUCKY ROUTE ZERO

RISING STAR AWARD IF FOUND

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION ITCH.IO BUNDLE

THE EDGE ALTERNATIVE AWARDS

TANGLE TOWER • How one of the UK indie scene’s leading lights cracked the case of the mystery game

Q&A

NODDING HEADS GAMES • How an Indian studio defied the odds to develop a culturally rich adventure

STILL PLAYING

Endings, beginnings

Cyberpunk 2077

MOTORHEAD

ISLE OF VIEW

Call Of The Sea

HORSE PLAY

Immortals Fenyx Rising

COG IN THE MACHINE

Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity

EMOTIONS THIRTEEN

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

BOSS FIGHTS

Empire Of Sin

BETTER TOGETHER?

Haven

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Horace

GAME RECOGNISE GAME

Tenderfoot Tactics

CHANGE LOG

Wide Ocean Big Jacket

WAVE CUT

Watch Dogs 2 • How a major attitude adjustment saved Ubisoft’s hacker series from meltdown

BROTHERS IN ARMS

Tetris Effect • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit