How can we turn a 6 into an 8 (and ideally not a 4)?

Videogame magazines and websites have always centred on

State of Playdate

As its second season of games arrives, we catch up with the little yellow handheld that could

Holding on to the past

How is Japan’s Game Preservation Society doing in its mission to preserve its own future?

A comfortable niche

How five years of Wholesome Direct has crystallised a new genre

Changing tide

Develop prepares for celebratory looks at the past mixed with uncertain glances to the future

FRENCH FANCY

Bringing bandes-desinée style to life in The Explorator

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

Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’ as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com . Our letter of the month wins an exclusive Edge T-shirt

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

The Outer Limits

Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

Six million ways to kill

In deckbuilder Shroom And Gloom , you won’t

HELL IS US

Rogue Factor’s civil-war dystopia reveals inner struggles

DREAMS OF ANOTHER

Pondering existence with help from an assault rifle

SLEIGHT OF HAND

A stealth adventure that’s all smoke and murders

CLOUDHEIM

Fantasy plus knockabout physics equals pinball wizardry

ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY – UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Prime Directives become secondary as Robo lets loose

SHROOM AND GLOOM

A delicious dungeon delve that plays with expectation

ROUNDUP

GRAND THEFT AUTO VI Developer/publisher Rockstar Games

A NEW PEAK

Game Big Walk Developer House House Publisher Panic

COLLECTED WORKS

`DEATH RALLY Developer Remedy Entertainment

CREATING HAVOK

How a modest team of Dubliners elevated the art of game physics

THE MAKING OF . . .VENBA

How a small team of Canadian developers came together to cook up a storm

HEART MACHINE

Inspired by personal trauma, driven by early success, an indie gem searches for stability

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Kyoto drift

It’s entirely possible that, in order to read these words, you had to tear yourself away from a shiny new piece of Nintendo hardware. If so, we thank you. But that context might make the absence of any Switch 2 reviews in the following pages seem odd. It certainly does to us.

Concrete Genie

Filling in the gaps between art and puzzle design

Returnal

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

Elden Ring: Nightreign

That FromSoftware’s best-loved games are formulaic is a

Post Script

In Remembrance

Doom: The Dark Ages

Think of Doom , and UI design is

Post Script

Not-so-hidden treasures

Blades Of Fire

M ercurySteam has long shown a knack for

Revenge Of The Savage Planet

Sometimes the blending together of art and life

To A T

There is something quintessentially Keita Takahashi about the

The Midnight Walk

Developer MoonHood Publisher Fast Travel Games Format

The Precinct

Developer Fallen Tree Games Publisher Kwalee Format PC

Monster Train 2

Developer Shiny Shoe Publisher Big Fan Games Format

The Siege And The Sandfox

Developer Cardboard Sword Publisher Plaion Format PC Release

Deliver At All Costs

There are no real repercussions for causing wanton

TMNT: Tactical Takedown

Developer/publisher Strange Scaffold Format PC Release Out now