How does roleplaying hold up when the spell breaks?

Elden Ring is a strange old game. On

Videogaming with a twist

Our launch verdict on the belated arrival of Panic’s portable, and its debut season of games

Unfinished symphony

As Game Music Foundation brings its festival – and mission – to London, it also considers its future

Postwire

Ikumi Nakamura shares her vision for Unseen, a new ‘borderless’ studio

Seas the moment

A look ahead to this year’s Develop Brighton, as the conference returns to its place in the sun

TEMPORAL EXPRESSION

Worlds collide in against-the-clock thriller The Time I Have Left

ARCADE WATCH

Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this

DISPATCHES JUNE

Issue 370 Dialogue Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

Drawn to life

Before the printing press was invented, books were

SUPERFUSE

With great power comes greatly responsive abilities

THE LAST WORKER

To rage against the machine or remain a cog within it?

INKULINATI

Causing a stink in a turn-based strategy with medieval roots

HYPER GUNSPORT

Could volleyball with guns be the next esports hit?

WE WERE HERE FOREVER

Total Mayhem's fourth co-op puzzler escapes the concept of rooms

ETERNAL THREADS

A glitch in time saves lives

ROUNDUP

LEGO BRICKTALES Developer Clockstone Publisher Thunderful Format PC

GRAVE NEW WORLD

Firewatch meets Alien Isolation in Starward Industries’ adaptation of a vintage science-fiction novel

REBUILDING HALF - LIFE

In this exclusive extract from a new book exploring the art of making games, we follow Valve’s journey as it transplants its most famous work into virtual reality

YOJI SHINK AWA

The acclaimed artist on Metal Gear, Death Stranding, and ambitions for automotive design

UNSIGHTED

How a Disney SNES game inspired this tale of robots running out of time

STUDIO PROFILE DOTEMU

Turning old into new with the French master of retro revival

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REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

After the storm

By any measure, 2022 has had a remarkable

El Shaddai: Ascension Of The Metatron

A truly biblical adventure – and one that doesn’t deserve to be forgotten

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

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

Weird West

Boulder Creek is a ghost town. The sheriff’s

Post Script

Weird West’s life hopping tackles some big RPG questions

Ghostwire: Tokyo

Having made a quarter of a million souls

Post Script

Why Ghostwire: Tokyo’s cultural authenticity makes its open world more appealing

Stranger Of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

Developer Team Ninja Publisher Square Enix Format

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Developer Traveller’s Tales Publisher Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

Developer Gearbox Software Publisher 2K Games Format PC

Abermore

Developer Four Circle Interactive Publisher Fireshine Games Format

Rune Factory 5

Developer Hakama Publisher Marvelous Europe Format

Chinatown Detective Agency

Developer General Interactive Co Publisher Humble Games,

Devastator

The sound effects accompanying Devastator’s frantic onscreen action

Patrick’s Parabox

Developer/publisher Patrick Traynor Format PC Release Out

A Memoir Blue

Developer Cloisters Publisher Annapurna Interactive Format