Come for the videogames. Stay to make more of them

Along with remarks such as “I still can’t

Falling blocs

How the battle for Tetris became a Cold War thriller

Forging ahead

Inside the Ubisoft R&D department investigating AI’s potential throughout game development

Machine music

Techno producer Remute returns to Sega’s Mega Drive – this time, to make his first game

POTTER’S FIELD

Ian Zell’s solo indie project shows real guts

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 MAY

Dialogue

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

Butterfly effect

MOST WANTED Humanity PC, PS4, PS5, PSVR, PSVR2

REDFALL

Arkane vamps it up in its open-world co-op shooter

FINAL FANTASY XVI

Purists may cry as the RPG series embraces action

THE FINALS

Fame and fortune await – if you don’t get flattened first

EUROPA

This Ghibli-inspired adventure looks positively dreamy

SHADOWS OF DOUBT

Sending the investigation genre in a whole new direction

RHYTHM STORM

Rebel against the beat in this pulsating arcade Roguelike

ROUNDUP

ATLAS FALLEN Developer Deck 13 Publisher Focus Entertainment

EVERY THING EVERY WHERE ALL AT ONCE

How Leslie Benzies and a team of former Rockstars are building an all-encompassing multiverse

REDEMPTION SONG

After Us explores the difficulty of telling stories of apocalypse and reparation through the lens of an action game

AN AUDIENCE WITH… GOICHI SUDA

Grasshopper Manufacture’s founder talks creativity, counterculture, and becoming a “weird old dude”

METAL: HELLSINGER

From a cancelled project to locked-down singers: how the heavy-metal shooter was forged

ASOBO STUDIO

The journey from Garfield and Pixar tie-ins to A Plague Tale and Flight Simulator

Dishonored: The Knife Of Dunwall

Arkane’s underplayed DLC campaign is an exploration of guilt and sunken cityscapes

Red Dead Online

Developer/publisher Rockstar Games (Rockstar Studios) Format PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series Release 2019

Resident Evil 4

To play Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 remake is

Post Script

On remakes and the pitfalls of modernisation

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

Three Kingdoms-era China, yes, but also Lordran, The

Post Script

When slowing down becomes its own reward

Tchia

At times, Tchia feels more like a holiday

Wild Hearts

The kingtusk wheels around – as well as

Octopath Traveler II

When warrior prince Hikari’s kingdom is seized in

Company Of Heroes 3

Pause buttons rarely stir much excitement in us,

Bayonetta Origins: Cereza And The Lost Demon

With a title that cumbersome, a shorthand was

Horizon: Call Of The Mountain

Mountains (and our ability to climb them) have

Song In The Smoke: Rekindled

Constructing a torch will let you explore at

Scars Above

Picking up the pace for an encounter with

Storyteller

The best way to approach Daniel Benmergui’s modest

Backbeat

There are 40 levels in all, but you

King Of The Castle

King Of The Castle never explicitly instructs you

Kirby’s Return To Dream Land Deluxe

A new visual style that seemed underwhelming in

Blanc

T he hand-sketched wintry setting might lend extra