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EDGE

INSIDE PSVR2

Back to reality • Has waning hype freed VR to shift up a gear in 2022?

A war of words • Could a blend of Scrabble and PUBG really amount to more than a gimmick?

BABBLING ON • Where could the game go from here?

A plague tale • The story behind a historical game about an eerily familiar pandemic

ALTERNATE HISTORY • ‘A set of lies agreed upon’, indeed

SMASH CUT • Past and present collide in this cinematic visual novel

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 MARCH

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

Hideous corpus

SLITTERHEAD • Silent Hill and Siren’s director promises a completely new strain of action-horror

The power of the dog

THE ANACRUSIS • This successor to Left 4 Dead risks getting lost in space

Pickup artist

FORSPOKEN • Square’s open-world action game finds its magic in movement

Kill or manicure

99 FAILS • Surrealism and grief combine in a nightmarish puzzle-platformer

Head spinner

SEA OF STARS • The team behind The Messenger realises a childhood dream

Shining a light

SWORDSHIP • Duck and dive in a shoot-’em-up where you can’t fire back

View to a thrill

Served rare

DEATH TRASH • Meat your doom in this postapocalyptic RPG

ROUNDUP

DARK SECRETS • The exclusive inside story of Jumpship’s mysterious sci-fi adventure Somerville

PLAYED BY EAR • From interactive podcasts to 3D RPGs: why the growing audiogame scene is demanding that you listen in

HEAVY FOOTSTEPS

ADMIN ACCESS

MOTION TRACKED

FOLEY AND FOLLY

COLLECTED WORKS JAKE SOLOMON • The journey from underqualified graphics programmer to master strategist

UNPACKING • A moving story in more ways than one

Q&A

ONE MORE LEVEL • How Ghostrunner breathed new life into a Polish developer in need of a hit

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Practical magic

DON’T FEAR THE REAPER

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker

Post Script • Pondering Final Fantasy XIV’s possible future paths

LORE AND DISORDER

GTFO

Post Script • Co-founder and game design director Hjalmar Vikström on making horror a service

THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS

Praey For The Gods

TO THE MANA BORNE

Nobody Saves The World

RIGHTING WRONGS

Windjammers 2

Below The Ocean

HURRY! DASH AND DIVE!

Filmechanism

PIC AND CLUES

Aeterna Noctis

NOCT OFF

Dungeon Munchies

HALF-BAKED

Lost Odyssey • How Sakaguchi’s clash of past and present created a true final fantasy

SOUND CLASH

Dead Cells • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit