Edge

The authority on videogame art, design and play, Edge is the must-have companion for game industry professionals, aspiring game-makers and super-committed hobbyists. Its mission is to celebrate the best in interactive entertainment today and identify the most important developments of tomorrow, providing the most trusted, in-depth editorial in the business via unparalleled access to the developers and technologies that make videogames the world’s most dynamic form of entertainment.

Behold! A cumulation of novel participatory delights

EDGE

Making spectacles • As smart glasses make a comeback, Viture One and Nreal Air allow us to look at games in a different way

Lucas arts • The Papers, Please and Obra Dinn creator talks burnout, managing expectations, and the joy of Playdate development

Social distance • Jam.gg rebrands its mission to inject a local multiplayer feel into online gaming

GOOD GRIEF • Using magic to heal the heartbroken in Selfloss

Soundbytes

DISPATCHES AUGUST

Trigger Happy

Alternate Reality

Wistful thinking

WANTED: DEAD

HINDSIGHT • Everyday objects become portals to the past in this wistful narrative adventure

THYMESIA

ECHOSTASIS

THE PALE BEYOND

OLD SKIES

MOONLIGHT IN GARLAND

ROUNDUP

CHALICE IN WONDERLAND • The story of Cuphead: how two brothers’ love of antique animation and old-school arcade action created a modern phenomenon

COLLECTED WORKS JOHN ROMERO • From firstperson shooters to Facebook and back again: the master of Doom reflects on an epic journey through game development

REEL LIFE • A decade on, the makers and subjects of Indie Game: The Movie reflect on the creation – and legacy – of gaming’s most influential documentary

THE MAKING O F. . . LAST STOP • How Variable State moved continents, cut stories, and dumped a scooter in search of its second game

CREATIVE ASSEMBLY • From ancient history to the far future: how the Sega studio has retained its identity

PLAY

Digital floundering

Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course

Post Script

Hardspace: Shipbreaker

Post Script

The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story

Post Script

Evil Dead: The Game

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong

Sniper Elite 5

Silt

Card Shark

Loot River

The Last Clockwinder

Mass Effect • The beginning of BioWare’s science-fiction trilogy is better than its reputation suggests

THE LONG GAME