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Who was ever careful with what they wished for?

EDGE

The trouble with game development • The Activision Blizzard harassment and discrimination lawsuit has repercussions for the industry as a whole

Dream state • Dean Anderson is predicting a streamlined future for user-generated content in games

DRAGON SCALE • Why don’t triple-A studios create their own UGC platforms?

Rally up • How two artists founded an archive of games for protest events for a new era of political activism

SOUND ASLEEP • Contemporary concerns meet rich dreamscapes in a rhythm game you shouldn’t snooze on

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

DIALOGUE • Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’ as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com. Our letter of the month wins a 12-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

Equal measures

MOST WANTED

SAINTS ROW • No dildo bats, please, we’re millennials

Looking back, moving forward

HALO INFINITE • After six years, is 343 ready to finish the fight?

Chat bots

MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY • Can Eidos Montreal get the best out of the MCU’s misfits?

Praying favourites

JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION 2 • Frontier believes it could, and should

Water hazard

NORCO • Dreams and memories of a dying American city

Storm warning

A PERFECT DAY • Reliving the tribulations of a childhood in ‘90s China

The royal treatment

VENBA • Where culture and cuisine collide

Pressure cooker

Loose threads

WAYWARD STRAND • Your patients will be rewarded in this gentle Australian adventure

ROUNDUP

ALTER EGO • How tackling the Marvel universe revealed an unexpected new side of the XCOM team

A NEW LENS

UNSUNG HEROES

STARK DIFFERENCE

ASSEMBLY LINE

STAR POWER • How a Hollywood studio became the most exciting force in games

verses mode • From Wordsworth to Grand Theft Auto V: the unexpected crossover between poetry and videogames

SEA VIEWS

CRITICAL CULTURE

CREAKS • How a Czech art-school project became an eight-year labour of love

Q&A

CHARLES GAMES • The small Czech developer making videogame history

STILL PLAYING

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Psychonauts 2

Naraka: Bladepoint

Humankind

Twelve Minutes

No More Heroes III

Recompile

Axiom Verge 2

The Forgotten City

Toodee And Topdee

Bastion • Looking back at the debut game that laid the blueprint for Hades

COR CONCEITS

THE LONG GAME • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit