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EDGE

Powering up • How 1047 Games went from dorm-room Halo to 13m players and a valuation of $1.5bn

FAILURE TO LAUNCH

HALO EFFECT

LIMIT BREAK

Cart life • The wave of developers creating new games for Nintendo’s Game Boy family

GET PHYSICAL

CLARIFICATION: ALEXIS KENNEDY

Circuit breakers • How videogames are infiltrating the world of film festivals including Venice and Tribeca

VISIBILITY PROBLEM

STARRED UP

Brighton time • After nearly two years without events, the Develop conference stages a comeback

SWORD PLAY • Stylish fighter Two Strikes offers samurai battles worth framing

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 DECEMBER

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

Touch some grass

MOST WANTED

DOKEV • Pearl Abyss on the inspirations behind the unexpected hit of Gamescom

Brolly good

TCHIA • An open-world adventure embracing its time in the sun

GTA: South Pacific

CANTATA • Infrastructure before infantry in this thoughtful indie strategy

Assembly required

THE WANDERING VILLAGE • Building on the shoulders of giants

Rogue runner

STORYTELLER • One of indie gaming’s longest sagas draws to a close

Type cast

CURSED TO GOLF • Bunkers are the least of your worries in this golfing Roguelike

Tiger king

ROUNDUP

NIGHT AND DAY • How everything – and everybody – is changing in Dying Light 2: Stay Human

AMMO COUNT

THE MULTIVERSE

EXTRA TIME

THE SECOND COMING • In 1999, Sony launched what would become the best-selling game console of all time. These are the stories of the people on the ground

COLLECTED WORKS GILES GODDARD • From Super FX to toying with Playdate’s crank: here’s to 30+ years of innovation

CHICORY: A COLORFUL TALE • From broad strokes to tiny details, how a team of five crafted an adventure-game ode to creativity

Q&A

KITFOX GAMES • The Montreal indie on boyfriends, Dwarf Fortress, and avoiding overwork

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

All it takes is a little push

Deathloop

SENSE CHECK

HAPTIC FANTASTIC

Jett: The Far Shore

THE WRITE STUFF

Sable

A FIGHTING CHANCE

Kena: Bridge Of Spirits

BIG MOOD

Life Is Strange: True Colors

COSTUME QUEST

Tales Of Arise

WEATHERS WITH YOU

The Artful Escape

COOKING PAPA

Eastward

Bonfire Peaks

TIME TO ASCEND

Lake

COMPANY TOWN

WarioWare: Get It Together

MINIGAME MANIA

Lost In Random

LIGHT RELIEF

Sin & Punishment: Successor Of The Skies • How Treasure came out all guns blazing for its last big game

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT

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