Sometimes it’s just fine to make it up as you go along

It doesn’t feel so long ago that the

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EDITORIAL Tony Mott still learning The Quill Chris

Epic vision

What does Fortnite Creative 2.0 mean for Epic’s plans of a metaversal future?

Catalog shopping

Sifting through the highlights of Panic’s new Playdate storefront

Pet project

AR, procedural generation and creature comforts coalesce in Niantic’s Peridot

Repeat pleasure

Jon Ingold on replayable stories, Inkle’s new game, and not making Overboard 2

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

Dialogue

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Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

The start of something new

They say you never get a second chance

DIABLO IV

Blizzard’s infernal ARPG opens its gates

VIEWFINDER

A picturesque puzzler with far more than one weird trick to show you

THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE: NECROM

Magic, memory and Morrowind: getting to the crux of it with 2023’s expansion

THE THAUMATURGE

Mystical investigations in early-20th-century Warsaw

THE BANISHED VAULT

An interstellar strategy that majors in science, maths and fine art

DORDOGNE

Misty watercolour memories of a childhood summer

ROUNDUP

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TEARS OF THE KINGDOM

BUILT DIFFERENT

How Heart Machine’s Hyper Light sequel is breaking new ground for the open-world Roguelike

NET GAINS

Can Netflix become a gamepublishing powerhouse to match its ambitions in TV and film?

THE WISDOM OF CROWDS

The story of Humanity: how Enhance’s unique puzzler is seeking to recapture the spirit of early PlayStation

THE MAKING OF. . . WEIRD WEST

How a team of former Arkane devs wrangled an increasingly Wild West

KEOKEN INTER ACTIVE

From the kitchen table to the stars: how a pair of sibling dreamers achieved lift-off

Final Fantasy XV

A royal camping trip that went awry – but found partial redemption in the friends made along the way

Citizen Sleeper

Developer Jump Over The Age Publisher Fellow Traveller Format PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Release 2022

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REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Misery business

Is everyone OK? We have to ask because,

Dead Island 2

For the survivors holed up within the quarantine

Post Script

Why Dead Island 2’s best-in-class gore is no small achievement

The Last Worker

Given the recent developments in generative AI, concern

Post Script

Q+A: Jason Isaacs, actor (Skew)

Deceive Inc

You can listen back to the exact moment

Everspace 2

Rockfish’s sci-fi sequel junks the Roguelike format of

Have A Nice Death

From Death’s Door to Grim Fandango and even

Terra Nil

For most of its duration, this self-styled ‘reverse

The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR

For all that it strives to present itself

Dredge

There’s never enough time in the day. All

Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries Of Honjo

Opening with a cheerful reminder of death’s immutability,

The Wreck

O ne of the unfortunate quirks of the

Can Of Wormholes

D uring one particularly furious bout of headscratching,

Raiden III x Mikado Maniax

When Raiden III debuted in arcades in 2005,