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It’s easy to forget, but ‘firstperson shooter’ wasn’t

EDGE

EDITORIAL Tony Mott editorial director Alex Spencer deputy

Under siege

The reality of game dev in the West Bank

Create new save point?

The GAMM museum in the heart of Rome shows that preservation is coming of age

JAM BAND

How Romeo And Juliet met Britain’s Got Talent for a true musical collage

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

Dialogue

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Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

Narrative Engine

Write it like you stole it

Power switch

Power fantasies have always been a natural fit

THICK AS THIEVES

Not Thief 4, but Thief times four

KINGMAKERS

Time travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them

HOLSTIN

A pixel-art nightmare in post-Cold War Poland

PRISMA

The camera never lies – but it can change reality

TO AT

Keita Takahashi puts childhood and disability under the microscope

A WEEK IN THE LIFE OF ASOCIAL GIRAFFE

Trying not to stick your neck out

ROUNDUP

THE WITCHER 4 Developer/publisher CD Projekt (CD

CHANGING DESTINY

With Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Chinese studio Leenzee aims to soar to the heights of its field

BLOOD MONEY

Vampire Survivors kicked off a game development gold rush, but has a legitimately new genre emerged between the cash-ins?

COLLECTED WORKS TAKAYA IMAMURA

The creator of Star Fox, Captain Falcon and Tingle on 30 years at Nintendo and restarting as an indie

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How a quest for the fast and the frenetic transformed survival horror into a comic-book Roguelike

HAREBRAINED SCHEMES

The former Paradox developer charts a course into a future without Shadowrun or BattleTech

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Critical timing

The concept of an exclusive review seems quaint

The Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

Technology has finally caught up with Nintendo’s trailblazing co-op adventure – so where is it?

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD

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

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

Developer Jump Over The Age Publisher Fellow Traveller

Post Script

Rolling with the changes

Eternal Strands

Developer/publisher Yellow Brick Games Format PC (tested),

Post Script

Burning it all down

Alien: Rogue Incursion

Developer/publisher Survios Format PCVR, PSVR2 (tested), Quest 3

Dynasty Warriors: Origins

Developer Koei Tecmo Publisher Omega Force Format

Ender Magnolia: Bloom In The Mist

Developer Adglobe, Live Wire Publisher Binary Haze

Caves Of Qud

Developer Freehold Games Publisher Kitfox Games Format PC

Asterism

Developer/publisher Claire Morwood Format PC Release Out now