Hail to the videogameloving king of the VHS era

The world of filmmaking in 2025 is full

EDGE

Edge is a member of the IPSO (Independent EDITORIAL

The pricing game

What’s the real cost of videogames in 2025, for both the people who play them and those behind the scenes?

QNTM entanglement

Videogames and literature collide in the search for new forms

Luna lander

Amazon’s cloud service is relaunching. Is this finally Luna’s moment in the sun?

PAGE VIEW

Japanese developer DeskWorks has us following a paper trail in its vividly realised Metroidvania

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 JANUARY

Issue 417 Dialogue Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

Making an exception

Adventure games with tailored stories are generally singleplayer

TIDES OF TOMORROW

Confronting the consequences of other people’s actions

VALOR MORTIS

Napoleon blown

ROGUE POINT

A stripped-back co-op FPS from the team behind Black Mesa

DRAGON QUEST VII: REIMAGINED

Developer/ publisher Square Enix Format PC, PS5, Switch,

POLY FIGHTER

Fight like a Rogue

GLOOMY JUNCTURE

Finding hope in seedy alleys and dive bars

ROUNDUP

HALO: CAMPAIGN EVOLVED Developer/publisher Xbox Game Studios (Halo

STRONG MUDDY VIOLENCF

What happens when you mix the tech of SnowRunner and Space Marine 2 in a co-op shooter with '80s flavour to spare? Toxic Commando has the answer

FOREVER WAR

inventing the extraction shooter to finally reaching 1.0, the creator of Escape From Tarkov has refused to compromise on its original game-changing vision

COLLECTED WORKS CHARLES CECIL

From exploding lightbulbs to the Knights Templar – via Ron Howard and the Daleks

THE MAKING OF... COUNTER-STRIKE

From university-dorm hobby project to Valve’s billion-dollar money factory

FAILBETTER GAMES

The industry’s finest sustainable storyteller shifts towards ‘fireside menace’

NEAR MISSES

Reach PCVR, PSVR2, Quest 3, Quest 3S NDreams’

Keeping our enemies close

In The Outer Worlds 2 , you invariably

Dreams

The would-be PS4 sleeper hit that never fully awoke to its potential

Street Fighter 6

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

ARC Raiders

FRIEND ZONE For all that we’ve focused on

Post Script

Directional input

The Outer Worlds 2

There’s always a risk in imitating something regarded

Post Script

Corporate flatter

Where Winds Meet

The story begins in a bamboo forest. It’s

Lumines Arise

After Tetris Effect , there’s a sense of

Wreckreation

Arcade racers are about going forwards. The screen

Possessor(s)

Developer Heart Machine Publisher Devolver Digital

Forestrike

Developer Skeleton Crew Studio, Thomas Olsson Publisher

Once Upon A Katamari

Developer Rengame Publisher Bandai Namco Format PC,

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

W hen it staggered half-formed from its grave

Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment

Talking about Dynasty Warriors: Origins in E 414,

Dead Static Drive

Sttanding in front of our childhood home, the