Chillout Games

Just how important is it to put your logo on a console?

As this issue goes to press, the news

Edge

EDITORIAL Tony Mott editorial director Alex Spencer

Ignition Switch

A muted Switch 2 reveal emphasises continuity over innovation. Could that be exactly what’s required?

Capital ideas

As it reaches its tenth anniversary, London Games Festival is expanding its horizons

A theory of funds

How Draknek is focusing on impact with its New Voices Puzzle Grant

The class of 2024/25

A brief rundown of the latest recipients of New Voices Puzzle Grants

FOUND FOOTAGE

On TikTok, memory and videogame aesthetics collide

Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

ARCADE WATCH

Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

DISPATCHES APRIL

It’s a shame about Roy I recently

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

Live to fight another day

Sometimes, the only way to go forward is

ASSASSIN’S CREED: SHADOWS

Two’s company?

COMMANDOS: ORIGINS

The tactics classic returns with a taste of island life

ENTER THE CHRONOSPHERE

Dodge, shoot, pause for thought

HENRY HALFHEAD

Where’s your head at?

TEMPEST RISING

Heading to the future for a very ’90s war

DEATH HOWL

A gloomy deckbuilding odyssey and an accidental Soulslike

ROUNDUP

NINJA GAIDEN 4 Developer Team Ninja, PlatinumGames

HEAVY HITTER

Doom looks to the past for its biggest – and weightiest – iteration yet

GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE

Uncovering the secrets of Animal Well, Tunic and UFO 50

STAINLESS STEEL

From one Extremes to another: how Warframe went from six-month ‘Hail Mary’ to a decade-plus of success

ARCO

How a ramshackle gang of indie developers formed over three continents to produce an epic reverse western

CROTEAM

How a gaggle of football fans became the self-appointed national dev team of Croatia

Sludge Life

Peer through the haze to discover a game that makes you ask some surprisingly sharp questions

Darkest Dungeon II

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

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Developer Warhorse Studios Publisher Deep Silver Format PC, PS5

Post Script

Sword art offline

Avowed

It’s best not to poke a bear, but

Post Script

Bad meaning good?

Sid Meier’s Civilization VII

Civilisation VII ’s playful disjointedness: from her

Post Script

Is diversity enough to solve Civilization’s problems with history?

Sniper Elite: Resistance

The serpentine streets of war-torn France are

Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders

The camera is daringly mobile, willing to follow

Keep Driving

Modifiers for each turn of a road

Tails Of Iron 2: Whiskers Of Winter

Developer Odd Bug Studio Publisher United Label Format

Rift Of The Necrodancer

Hit the space bar when your vibe meter

Afterlove EP

Afterlove EP ’s music and songs during rhythm-action

Urban Myth Dissolution Center

You get to know the game’s cast through

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