“This is beautiful! Stunning! A total sensation! I hate it”

As this issue goes to press, Epic has

1 Year of reckoning

Reviewing another difficult 12 months across the game industry

Pocket universe

The best way to play Game Boy games? That’s just the beginning for Analogue’s retro han dheld

A little knight music

From Green Greens to Grammys: the story behind an award-wor thy Kirby remix

DOPE FIENDS

Drugwars meets fairytales and an ’80s Japanese printing technique

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this

DISPATCHES FEBRUARY

Issue 366 Dialogue Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’

Trigger Happy

DISPATCHES PERSPECTIVE

Unreliable Narrator

DISPATCHES PERSPECTIVE

Dreams and schemes

As the late, great Terry Pratchett once wrote,

CUPHEAD: THE DELICIOUS LAST COURSE

This mouthwatering dessert looks worth the long wait

WE ARE OFK

Developer/publisher Team OFK Format PC Origin US

THE PAST WITHIN

Bring a friend for Rusty Lake’s collaborative escape room puzzler

MINI MAKER: MAKE A THING

Letting creativity flourish between expectations and reality

INUA: A STORY IN ICE AND TIME

Developer The Pixel Hunt, IKO Publisher Arte France

CALL ME CERA

A visual novel about making friends and navigating boundaries

SONIC FRONTIERS

Developer/publisher Sega (Sonic Team) Format PC, PS4, PS5,

Boss Encounter

A meeting with Hidetaka Miyazaki to discover the treasures of Elden Ring

THE EDGE AWARDS

If you ever need proof that critics are

Q&A DINGA BAKABA

Dinga Bakaba, game director and recently promoted studio

OXENFREE

How over 30 years of friendship, and a persistent love of ’80s cinema, culminated in a spooky adventure

STUDIO FIZBIN

From card tricks to juice shops: telling stories with one of Germany’s premier indies

PLAY

REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Valheim

Developer Iron Gate Studio Publisher Coffee Stain Publishing Format PC Release 2021 (Early Access)

Halo Infinite

Welcome to Zeta Halo. Well-worn dirt tracks giving

Post Script

What does the battle pass controversy really mean for Halo Infinite’s multiplayer?

Solar Ash

The first thought that crosses our mind as

Post Script

The challenge of trying to reinvent the vocabulary of the open-world genre

Battlefield 2042

There’s a rite of passage that occurs every

Post Script

How will the game industry fix its crossplay communication problem?

The Gunk

What, exactly, is the Gunk? That’s the question

Fights In Tight Spaces

Everything’s a Roguelike deckbuilder these days, isn’t it?

Heavenly Bodies

Exiting your space capsule to fix a broken

PLAY

Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator

Clockwork Aquario

A lthough technically the third release of a

Dungeon Encounters

Playing Dungeon Encounters, we find ourselves thinking of

The Eternal Cylinder

Trebhum trunks expel as well as inhale. In

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

As if to justify the open world, Holmes

Unsighted

Beyond the campaign, Dungeon Raid turns Unsighted into

Cruis’n Blast

Raw thrills, indeed: Eugene Jarvis’s Midway arcade series

Dap

With no direction, using your little daps effectively

Toem

Timing is a funny old thing. In any

Frame Gride

Mecha and fantasy mix in a forgotten but vital chapter of FromSoftware’s history