Give us the ingredients and we’ll handle the rest

Exclusive subscriber edition “When Valve first floated the

EDGE

EDITORIAL Tony Mott editorial director Alex Spencer deputy

Fatal error

The videogame industry is broken. How to fix it?

CRT-URE COMFORTS

Toby Dixon unleashes the beast within

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 FEBRUARY

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Trigger Happy

STEVEN POOLE

Narrative Engine

Write it like you stole it

The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

Roads less travelled

Back when Edge launched, the racing game was

DEEPEST FEAR

There must be something in the water

WHEEL WORLD

Demons, bikes and Italo-disco collide in this open-world adventure

LONELY MOUNTAINS: SNOW RIDERS

Go down and take everybody with you

INTO THE MAW

A team-building exercise of interstellar proportions

KEEP DRIVING

The really real driving simulator

MYTHMATCH

Building a community, three at a time

ROUNDUP

AVOWED Developer Obsidian Entertainment Publisher Xbox

OF ICE AND FIRE

Meet the industry veterans bringing systemic chaos to the RPG formula, one frozen dragon at a time

THE EDGE AWARDS

Coming after one of the all-time great years

RISE OF THE ROBOT

How a small team inside SIE Japan made the game of the year

THE MAKING OF... PACIFIC DRIVE

How late-night drives and memorable breakdowns informed the year’s most distinctive survival game

RED CANDLE GAMES

How to navigate huge change, from TV adaptations to angering a superpower

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Technical difficulties

You wait months for a notable Xbox exclusive,

Bowser’s Fury

It’s the first open-world Mario game, so why does it all feel so comforting and familiar?

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle

Clearly, it’s time we rewatched Raiders Of The

Post Script

Can’t beat the real thing

STALKER 2: Heart Of Chornobyl

The first few hours of STALKER 2 see

Does STALKER’s canon hold its own?

Familiar characters and locations return, often dropped within

Marvel Rivals

Despite its many undeniable similarities to Overwatch, NetEase’s

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Ac cording to the banner trailed by a

Behemoth

Skydance’s Behemoth is a quintessential showcase of virtual-reality

Infinity Nikki

Developer Papergames Publisher Infold Games Format

The Spirit Of The Samurai

Developer Digital Mind Games Publisher Kwalee

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island

The notion that the Greek gods aren’t merely

Void Sols

With so much of the environment obscured until

30 Birds

For a game that embodies the chummy clutter