FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

Removing the rough edges from the good old days

When Namco released Museum Vol 1 in 1995,

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Going for gold

As the Commonwealth Games trials a videogame competition, does it feel like a torchbearer for esports?

Power down

With an energy crisis looming, which games and features are the most costly?

Small wonders

How the Tiny Teams festival gives solo devs and micro studios their moment in the sun

PULP FICTION

Explore a folkloric landscape hand-crafted from paper in A Most Extraordinary Gnome

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’re weren’t doing everything else

DISPATCHES NOVEMBER

Dialogue

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

Title case

We’ve been thinking a lot about names this

DEAD ISLAND 2

After almost a decade, Deep Silver’s zombie sequel rises again

FLOCK

A model of herd composition

MOONBREAKER

Subnautica’s developer turns its hand to tabletop-inspired tactics

FOREVER AGO

A road trip down memory lane

THE DIOFIELD CHRONICLE

Dioramas meet dire circumstances in this realtime strategy RPG

THE EXCAVATION OF HOB’S BARROW

Will you dig this point-and-click folk-horror fable?

ARCANE ASCENT

Portal meets The Climb in this VR puzzle-platformer

HYPE ROUNDUP

SPLATOON 3 Developer/publisher Nintendo (EPD) Format Switch Origin

CRIME OF THE CENTURY

How Creative Assembly evolved from Isolation to getting the gang together for the ultimate pop-culture heist

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PAPER TRAILS

How developers and fan cartographers alike are charting new horizons in videogame maps

ONE MORE TURN

Inside the compulsion loop: is the gamification of games good for our health and theirs?

THE MAKING O F. . .

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BROKEN RULES

From broken furniture to a radical reorganisation: how the Gibbon developer has kept on swinging

Where the heart is

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

A flawed sequel says it best when it says nothing at all

The Last Of Us Part I

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

Saints Row

Developer Volition Publisher Deep Silver Format PC,

Post Script

Is Saints Row’s approach to game difficulty the future of player-regulated challenge?

Rollerdrome

Developer Roll7 Publisher Private Division Format PC, PS4,

Post Script

In a year of brilliant repetition, why does Rollerdrome feel like it’s spinning its wheels?

Hard West 2

Developer Ice Code Games Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment

Two Point Campus

Developer Two Point Studios Publisher Sega Format

Ooblets

Developer/publisher Glumberland Format PC (tested), Switch, Xbox One

Soul Hackers 2

Developer Atlus Publisher Sega Format PC,

Cult Of The Lamb

Developer Massive Monster Publisher Devolver Digital Format

Hindsight

Developer Team Hindsight Publisher Annapurna Interactive Format

Kirby’s Dream Buffet

Developer HAL Laboratory Publisher Nintendo Format

South Of The Circle

Developer State Of Play Publisher 11bit Studios

Cursed To Golf

Developer Chuhai Labs Publisher Thunderful Format PC

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