Edge

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EDGE

Virtual humanity • How Epic is upgrading 3D character creation

Made in Iraq • As western military shooters reduce their homeland to a backdrop, we talk to the Iraqi developers challenging preconceptions

Model pro • Hironobu Sakaguchi reveals the painstaking work behind Mistwalker’s new hand-crafted RPG

GACHA CON • Can Fantasian gain traction in a market dominated by F2P?

Viking invasion • How unexpected smash hit Valheim went from one developer to five million players

EXPANDED HORIZONS • What’s next for the surprisingly successful Iron Gate Studio?

PARCEL UP • Making special deliveries in a stealth-led dystopian satire

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 MAY

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

Playing your part

MOST WANTED

SIFU • Absolver’s developer returns with a kung fu revenge fantasy

MASK OF THE ROSE • Failbetter finds love in Fallen London

SUBNAUTICA: BELOW ZERO • A change of temperature but not of tune

BOOK OF TRAVELS • A serene adventure for wayfinders and wanderers

SATURNALIA • A Sardinian survival horror to lose yourself in

CARD SHARK • WarioWare meets Barry Lyndon in a card game like no other

ROUNDUP

BREAKING OUT • With Deathloop, Arkane is reinventing the wheel it spent two decades perfecting

BIRDS AND BATS

REPRISE FIGHTER

24-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE

OVER AND OVER AND OVER • Creators at the forefront of the Roguelike genre chart a course for a bright future

LIKE WISE

OLYMPIAN LEGEND

PRESS PLAY • As the world locked down, videogames allowed it to open up via virtual concerts. We talk to the artists, developers and organisers responsible

NATE NANZER PHIL RAMPULLA • Head of global partnerships, Epic Games Head of brand, Epic Games

SIGNS OF THE SOJOURNER • How Echodog Games played its cards right to produce a spellbinding debut

Q&A

ONION GAMES • Life is just dandy for this daringly individual Japanese micro-studio

STILL PLAYING

Don’t look back, just keep on walking

Monster Hunter Rise • It might be Switch’s crowning technical achievement, certainly outside the firstparty blockbusters

Bravely Default 2 • The boss fights in particular – each one a sharp difficulty spike – feel bizarrely prescriptive

Genesis Noir • It plays with scale, perspective and recursion with a confidence that takes the breath away

Maquette • If games are a dialogue between designer and player, too often it feels as if this is giving us the silent treatment

Mundaun • Like Journey’s peak in photonegative, the mountain confers a sense of both direction and fatality

PixelJunk Raiders • Plot is far from vital to a Roguelike’s success, but some motivation to keep exploring would be welcome

Loop Hero • Your job, as the numbers totter upwards with each go-around, is to keep your hero dressed in the best gear

Narita Boy

Splinter Cell:Conviction • Ubisoft’s controversial stealth sequel forms the backbone of its games today

GHOST...