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“Yes, but can I use it to storm the Capitol in VR?”

Edge

Like lightning • Thunderful World is a promise to be a new force in game development, publishing and beyond

SELECTION BOX • Sixteen picks from Thunderful’s forthcoming catalogue

NEW MONEY

UNBOXED • Why Agostino Simonetta chose Thunderful over Microsoft

Exhibit A • Radiohead’s collaboration with Epic is a vivid experiment in interactive art

TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN

Pik pocket • Nintendo and Niantic’s latest AR team-up is a delightfully unassuming diversion. Is that enough?

FETCH QUEST

CORRECTION

HORROR SHOW • Strategically sowing the stylish seeds of terror in The Fabulous Fear Machine

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

The message is the medium

MOST WANTED

ELDEN RING • Does FromSoftware’s magic work across a broader canvas?

Scaling up

LITTLE DEVIL INSIDE • Neostream’s adventure (mostly) has its future all mapped out

Playing the angles

LOST ARK • A fierce challenge awaits budding raiders in this Korean hit

Hit the rocks

DUBIUM • Among Us meets Dead By Daylight in a game of uneasy alliances

The final Frontiers

DARKEST DUNGEON 2 • Red Hook’s brilliantly blighted dungeon crawler hits the road

Uneasy riders

ISLAND OF WINDS • This Icelandic adventure is anything but breezy

The C, the C, the open C

SILT • Wonder and terror from the deep

Fin peaks

HYPE ROUNDUP

MARTIAL ART • In Sifu, Sloclap demonstrates its mastery of kung fu action

BODY BLOW

FALSE MOVE

Q&A PAUL-EMILE BOUCHER ART DIRECTOR

XX • As Xbox marks its 20th anniversary, Phil Spencer and studio leaders look back – and forwards

KILLER APP

DOLLED UP

PRIVATE LIMITED

WAR IS OVER

ALTERNATE REALITY • Can the metaverse deliver on the dream of a new way of living life online?

VR TOO FAR?

ON PARADE

GIG ECONOMY

RETURNAL • How a master of arcade-style action chiseled away the superfluous to uncover something new

Q&A

UNKNOWN WORLDS • How perseverance – and chocolate-chip cookies – has kept the Subnautica studio afloat

STILL PLAYING

Breaking the habit

Forza Horizon 5

EVENT HORIZON

Call Of Duty: Vanguard

CHARACTER RIBBING

Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy

LORD ONLY KNOWS

Riders Republic

MASS EFFECT

Shin Megami Tensei V

MOURNING GLORY

Age Of Empires IV

ALL MOD CONS

Happy Game

MANY OF HORROR

Conway: Disappearance At Dahlia View

CLUED IN

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House Of Ashes

BALANCING ACT

Exo One

JUPITER’S WEIRD

Moonglow Bay

UNDERWATER MENACE

Moncage

GLOW UP

Dark Souls III • How FromSoftware’s fourth Souls game triumphantly paints itself into a corner

GWYN AND BEAR IT

Animal Crossing: New Horizons • A progress...