Redeploy, not fade away, redeploy, not fade away

Even though Elden Ring: Nightreign (p30) contradicts some

Speak up

Videogame actors explain why they won’t stand for AI

Bard choices

The first videogame from the Royal Shakespeare Company transplants Macbeth into modern Iran

Games done quick

With over 100 games on its CV, developer collective Sokpop is well set to make 100 more

Fantastic four

Each member of Sokpop explains one of their favourite creations

RAT WITH A GAT

A cartoon detective shooter that isn’t taking the Mickey

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

STEVEN POOLE

The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

Next’s best things

Does the game industry ever really sleep these

ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN

Going on the run with FromSoftware’s unexpected spinoff

HIROGAMI

The Bandai Namco studio turning over a new leaf with a papercraft platformer

ABSOLUM

Dotemu lets the beat-’em-up go Rogue for its first original IP

CHIP ’N CL AWZ VS THE BRAINIOIDS

Strategy master Julian Gollop makes a tactical switch

SOLASTA II

A true 3D sequel: dungeons, dragons and dice

CRESCENT COUNTY

A broomstick bildungsroman

JANET DEMORNAY IS A SLUMLORD (AND A WITCH)

Black magic meets black mould in this renter’s nightmare

ROUNDUP

TIDES OF ANNIHILATION Developer/publisher Eclipse Glow Games

PI ECE OF MIND

Leslie Benzies’ first game since GTAV is refreshingly old-fashioned – even as it makes way for an ambitious future

COLLECTED WORKS MARK HEALEY

The coder with an artist’s flair on 8bit beginnings, making a splash with UGC, and returning to the god game genre

ALL HANDS ON DECKS

The PC handheld scene is exploding, but can Valve’s Steam Deck be toppled?

THE MAKING OF . . .

1000XRESIST

SABOTAGE STUDIO

How remodelling the past for modern audiences turned Québécois dreams into reality

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

NEAR MISSES Path Of Fury – Episode I:

Look how you’ve grown

How much gaming has matured as a medium

Doom 3

Its way out was paved with good intentions. Can this often-maligned entry make it back?

Suikoden I & II HD Remaster: Gate Rune & Dunan Unification Wars

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

Split Fiction

Developer Hazelight Publisher EA Format PC, PS5 (tested),

Post Script

Josef Fares, director and Hazelight founder

Monster Hunter Wilds

Developer/publisher Capcom Format PC, PS5 (tested), Xbox Series

Post Script

Is there more to life than hit points?

Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii

Developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio Publisher Sega Format PC,

Post Script

Never mind the quality, feel the thrift

Delta Force

Developer/publisher TiMi Studio Group (TiMi J3 Studio) Format PC

Expelled!

HIT THE BOOKS As ever with Inkle, Expelled

Two Point Museum

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT Two Point

Wanderstop

ON THE COUCH In the midst of making

Knights In Tight Spaces

Developer Ground Shatter Publisher Raw Fury Format PC

Omega 6: The Triangle Stars

Developer Takaya Imamura, Happymeal, Pleocene Publisher Clear River

Centum

Developer Hack The Publisher Publisher Serenity Forge Format