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.

A link to the past – or just the lifeline it needs?

EDGE

State of play

Stall of the mountain king • After two decades, and having traded text for graphics, Dwarf Fortress is coming of age

Sea change • How games such as Floodland and Terra Nil are engaging with the climate crisis

ARCADE WATCH • Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene

Soundbytes • Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

THIS MONTH ON EDGE • Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

DISPATCHES FEBRUARY

Trigger Happy

Alternate Reality

Resolution time

FORSPOKEN • Do magic, kill jacked-up beasts, and so on, and so on

LUNA ABYSS

MEWGENICS • Imperative claws: this tactical RPG could be a modern miaow-sterpiece

JETT: GIVEN TIME • Less talk, more freedom in a welcome return to The Far Shore

KING OF THE CASTLE

HADES 2

JUDAS

STAR WARS JEDI: SURVIVOR

AFTER US

CRIME BOSS: ROCKAY CITY

EARTHBLADE

VIEWFINDER

DEATH STRANDING 2

ARMORED CORE VI: FIRES OF RUBICON

BANISHERS: GHOSTS OF NEW EDEN

VISION THING • Game developers will decide the fortunes of PSVR2. What do they make of Sony’s sophomore effort?

THE EDGE AWARDS

XBOX GAME OF THE YEAR

PLAYSTATION GAME OF THE YEAR

PC GAME OF THE YEAR

NINTENDO GAME OF THE YEAR

BEST VISUAL DESIGN

MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR

BEST PERFORMANCE

BEST AUDIO DESIGN

BEST SOUNDTRACK

BEST HARDWARE

STUDIO OF THE YEAR

PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR

THE ALTERNATIVE EDGE AWARDS

BAYONETTA 3

WINDJAMMERS 2

GRAN TURISMO 7

POINPY

HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER

ROADWARDEN

NEON WHITE

PENTIMENT

ELDEN RING

IMMORTALITY

THE SECRET OF IMMORTALITY • Diving deep into the making of the year’s most captivating mystery (spoilers and all)

NAINITA DESAI, COMPOSER

FEAR • The blood, sweat and tears that went into Monolith’s horror-loaded shooter

ROLL7 • The wheels nearly came off, but now this UK dev is lining up its most ambitious trick yet

Hindsight is 2022

Marvel’s Midnight Suns

Post Script • Off the grid: how tactics games are breaking free of the XCOM template

The Callisto Protocol

Post Script • In search of The Callisto Protocol’s sense of humour

Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration

Post Script

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

Need For Speed Unbound

Gungrave GORE

The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me

Evil West

Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

Swordship

Melatonin

Astral Chain • How PlatinumGames forged the link between all-out action and policework

Dying Light 2