Brighton time

Hold on, just one final brushstroke should do it…

In the process of writing this issue’s cover

Powering up

How 1047 Games went from dorm-room Halo to 13m players and a valuation of $1.5bn

Cart life

The wave of developers creating new games for Nintendo’s Game Boy family

Circuit breakers

How videogames are infiltrating the world of film festivals including Venice and Tribeca

SWORD PLAY

Stylish fighter Two Strikes offers samurai battles worth framing

Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

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 DECEMBER

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Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Unreliable Narrator

Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales

Touch some grass

Speaking to the New York Times four years

DOKEV

Pearl Abyss on the inspirations behind the unexpected hit of Gamescom

TCHIA

An open-world adventure embracing its time in the sun

CANTATA

Infrastructure before infantry in this thoughtful indie strategy

THE WANDERING VILLAGE

Building on the shoulders of giants

STORYTELLER

One of indie gaming’s longest sagas draws to a close

CURSED TO GOLF

Bunkers are the least of your worries in this golfing Roguelike

ROUNDUP

MARVEL’S WOLVERINE Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment Developer

NIGHT AND DAY

How everything – and everybody – is changing in Dying Light 2: Stay Human

THE SECOND COMING

In 1999, Sony launched what would become the best-selling game console of all time. These are the stories of the people on the ground

COLLECTED WORKS GILES GODDARD

From Super FX to toying with Playdate’s crank: here’s to 30+ years of innovation

CHICORY: A COLORFUL TALE

From broad strokes to tiny details, how a team of five crafted an adventure-game ode to creativity

KITFOX GAMES

The Montreal indie on boyfriends, Dwarf Fortress, and avoiding overwork

STILL PLAYING

Hades S5P With loops on the agenda, it

All it takes is a little push

Videogame designers must constantly grapple with how much

Sin & Punishment: Successor Of The Skies

How Treasure came out all guns blazing for its last big game

Ghost Of Tsushima

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

Deathloop

Publisher Bethesda Softworks Developer Arkane Studios

Post Script

Is ‘immersive sim’ an outdated term?

Jett: The Far Shore

Developer/publisher Superbrothers, Pine Scented Software Format PC, PS4,

Sable

Publisher Raw Fury Developer Shedworks Format PC (tested),

Kena: Bridge Of Spirits

Developer/publisher Ember Lab Format PC, PS4, PS5 (tested)

Life Is Strange: True Colors

Developer Deck Nine Publisher Square Enix Format PC,

Tales Of Arise

An arid wasteland. A city in perpetual darkness.

The Artful Escape

Well, it certainly knows how to put on

Eastward

Nostalgia is powerful magic, and no group is

Bonfire Peaks

At some point, we’ve all felt a desire

Lake

We’re bobbing in the middle of the eponymous

WarioWare: Get It Together

Your first hour with a new WarioWare is

Lost In Random

All the best children’s stories have a vein