A door between two worlds

OK, here’s a test. What were you doing

The wisdom of crowds

With its ScavLab tech, Improbable is designing for 10,000 players at once

Gabe gear

Steam Deck: can Valve’s portable PC succeed where Steam Machines failed?

Ring of Steel

How a small Sheffield indie was entrusted with the future of boxing videogames

Escape Zoom

The Isklander trilogy mixes detective games, video calls and immersive theatre

INK CREDIBLE

Why painstaking processes make this hand-drawn platformer more authentic

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 OCTOBER

Issue 361 Dialogue Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Unreliable Narrator

Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales

Points of view

Camera angles are among the most important tools

THE ARTFUL ESCAPE

Is this sci-fi rock opera bound for the big time?

FAR CRY 6

Taking a stealthy look inside Ubisoft’s revolutionary guerrilla thriller

WEIRD WEST

A cowboy RPG from a team that has earned its spurs

VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE – BLOODHUNT

A battle royale with real teeth

SALT AND SACRIFICE

The hunt is on in Ska Studios’ twisted sequel

HEAVENLY BODIES

Ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in space

PHANTOM ABYSS

A game about survival where you run toward the ghosts

GO YOUR OWN WAY

Why Sable’s sumptuous sandbox is an open world that truly values player freedom

PIXEL PERFECT

The game developers striving to get closer to the past, one glowing dot at a time

State Of The Art

Entering Virtual Realms, an exhibition dedicated to transferring videogames from screen to gallery

THE MAKING OF . . . MANIFOLD GARDEN

How an artist’s Escher-inspired practice project became a seven-year odyssey

NIHON FALCOM

How the longest-running Japanese RPG studio continues to blaze its own Trails

Bionic Commando Rearmed

How an extendable arm pulled us towards a new age of downloadable gaming

Sea Of Thieves

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

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Tiny wires in her ears, sliding through the city

Urban spaces in the early days of videogames

Neo: The World Ends With You

W e admit that stepping back onto Shibuya’s

Post Script

Talking sharp looks with the team behind the distinctive characters

Road 96

The journey, not the destination. That’s what a

Post Script

This is (not) America

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

Given the tradition of Sherlock Holmes parodies –

Post Script

Unravelling the secrets behind Great Ace Attorney’s inspirations

The Ascent

An arcology is an imagined ideal: a structure

Death’s Door

This is a distinctive twist on an established formula, and a remarkable accomplishment for a small team

Wildermyth

The kind of game that knows what you want before you do, and gives you what you never knew you needed besides

Last Stop

Approached with a soapopera mindset, Last Stop comes into focus. Like all good TV, its pleasures are cumulative

Cris Tales

From estranged families to deadly disease, every town has its own problem necessitating different solutions

Where The Heart Leads

Though the building process is simply a matter

Boomerang X

There’s a faint whisper of story here, but

No Longer Home

You’re able to rotate the camera to get