Grass warfare
Rugby union and grassroots UK esports form an unlikely alliance.

Unreliable Narrator
Introducing our new columnist, Her Story creator Sam Barlow.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole considers inventory management as a form of play.

Collected Works: Yu Suzuki
The veteran developer reflects on his pioneering arcade games, and the completion of Shenmue III..

Making spectacles
As smart glasses make a return, we look at how they propose to change the way we see games.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole on the cognitive panic and subtle satire of Mini Motorways’ cheerful dystopia.

Chalice In Wonderland
How Studio MDHR fused vintage games and cartoons to create a modern sensation in Cuphead.

Infinite canvas
Step inside The Zium Gallery, a virtual exhibition space where the art world and videogames collide.

Build them up to knock them down
Shmup Creator: it does exactly what you’d expect it to – and may even change how you play.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole does his best to save the world, one multiplechoice question at a time..

Videogaming with a twist
The Edge verdict on Playdate’s belated launch – with reviews of all 24 games in Season One.

Temporal expression
Navigate two distinct worlds against the clock in Spanish thriller The Time I Have Left.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole on how the power of games can give myths back some of their old enchantment..

Link to the past
As the 3DS and Wii U digital stores close, the preservation debate becomes more urgent.

Unreliable Narrator
Sam Barlow brings one last touch of magic to the pages of Edge before his final disappearing trick.

Micro transaction
Examining the Activision Blizzard acquisition, and what it means for the broader videogame industry.

This Month On Edge
The things that caught our eye during the production of E369.

Automatic For The People
The rise of the factory sim, and the real-world lessons it can teach..

A war of words
Scrabble and PUBG collide in Everybody House’s Babble Royale.

Trigger Happy
What if we were able to be the good guys, asks Steven Poole.

Studio Profile
How One More Level kept plugging away to score its biggest hit with Ghostrunner..

Boss Encounter - A meeting with FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki to discuss the creation of Elden Ring.

The Edge Awards - The best visuals, audio and games of 2021, plus insight from our overall GOTY winner.

This Month On Edge
The things that caught our eye during the production of E366.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole on the drawbacks of a corporate metaverse – and the playful alternative.

Alternate Reality
What does the metaverse mean for tomorrow, and how will the game industry make its mark?

Rebel alliance
How studio-owned publishing collective Kepler Interactive is redefining creative collaboration.

The lady’s not for burning
Why viral Doom mod Thatcher’s Techbase is a fascinating microcosm of videogames today.

Cat Power
Night and the kitty: why Stray’s feline hero makes its dense urban jungle so much more than just another videogame dystopia.

Cart life
We talk to the developers giving Nintendo’s Game Boy family a new lease of life.

This Month On Edge
The things that caught our eye during the production of E364.

Night And Day
How everything – and everybody – is changing in Dying Light 2: Stay Human.

The Second Coming
Stories from those on the ground as Sony prepared to launch its revolutionary PlayStation 2..

The trouble with game development
With numerous studios accused of hosting abusive behaviour, we ask: what happens next?

Sound asleep
Drift away with the dreamy style of rhythm-action title Melatonin.

Unreliable Narrator
Sam Barlow considers the need for coordinating intimacy.

Time Extend
Revisiting Supergiant Games’ Bastion, an action RPG that was far from calamitous..

The wisdom of crowds
How Improbable’s ScavLab is reaching for 10,000 players.

Escape Zoom
Detective games, video calls and theatre mix in the Isklander trilogy.

Pixel Perfect
The developers going to extreme lengths with modern systems to revive the flavour of gaming’s past..

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole considers the evolution of zombies, all the way to the bleakest of ends.

Collected Works
From Disney to Dead Space and beyond: Glen Schofield reflects on 30 years of big brands, blockbusters and... Barbie?

Studio Profile
From a pair of platforming pals to making Friends around the industry: it’s Playtonic Games..

Journey’s End
Square Enix’s Naoki Yoshida on FFXIV: Endwalker and beyond.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole embarks on a cosmic trip with Genesis Noir.

Taking Flight
A hands-on exclusive with Jett: The Far Shore, Superbrothers’ mysterious spacefaring adventure.

Vinyl Fantasy
As it turns ten years old, we dig into the origins of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP.

Broadcast media
Ghosts’ unique combination of FMV games and appointment TV.

Nurturing nature
How an Afrofuturist strategy game is helping real-world conservation.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole takes the lead and explores the role of the protagonist..

Stun meter
Sony acquires Evolution: what this means for the world’s biggest fighting-game tournament.

Little shop of horror
How Taiwanese developer Red Candle Games turned to selfpublishing to release Devotion.

This Month On Edge
The things that caught our eye during the production of E358..

Virtual humanity
Epic’s MetaHuman Creator sets out to revolutionise NPC creation.

This Month On Edge
The things that caught our eye during the production of E357.

Unreliable Narrator
Making a game is all in the planning, reckons Sam Barlow..

Arcade save
The campaign helping museums to preserve vintage coin-ops.

There will be blood
Laying our cards on the table with Back 4 Blood, Turtle Rock’s zombie shooter with a twist.

Studio Profile
Meet the team at State Of Play, the studio that puts real-world craft into the art of game development..

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.

Getting to grips with DualSense.

The rise of the indie immersive sim..

Unreliable Narrator Sam Barlow on the line between
exploration and explanation, The Long Game Progress reports on the games we just can’t quit, featuring Tetris Effect...

Shadow theatre
Jumping between shadows is child’s play in platformer Schim.

This Month On Edge
The things that caught our eye during the production of E353.

Comfortably Numb
The games that understand the human experience of boredom as well as any psychologist.

The Long Game
Progress reports on the games we just can’t quit, featuring the divine yet divisive Doom Eternal..

Weird science
Meet Playables, the team quietly behind the coolest games going.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole finds comfort in dogfighting, 1980s-style.

Time Extend
A year after Death Stranding’s launch, Hideo Kojima’s ‘strand game’ delivers a timely message..

Little Nightmares 2
PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series.

A Monster’s Expedition (Through Puzzling Exhibitions) iOS, PC

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole dons his tinfoil hat to delve into conspiratorial matters..

Shaping the future
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a Jet Set Radio revival with street sincerity.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole on the educational excellence of videogame tutorials.

The Long Game
A progress report on the games we just can’t quit, featuring persistence in Red Dead Online..

Flock together
Videogame art festival A Maze Total Digital celebrates connection.

Ghost in the machine
Composition is key in musical adventure Haunted Garage.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole on the importance of powering up in the real world..

The show goes on
The biggest week in games goes digital in a formative year.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole on the new-found popularity of chess as an esport.

The Long Game
Progress reports on the games we just can’t quit, featuring island living in Pokémon Sword & Shield.

A sporting chance
With the world shut down, sports fans and athletes look to simulation videogames.

Carte blanche
Indie debut Dordogne is an ode to self-discovery set amid a watercolour French countryside.

Artists Assemble
Independent, political and inspiring: videogame collectives point to an alternative future..

Viral reaction
How developers are dealing with work and life under Covid-19.

Not forgotten
Frictional Games returns to the decade-defining Amnesia series.

Trigger Happy
Steven Poole on how an illconceived app ruined Scrabble...

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.

Katamari Damacy.

Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan.

Professor Layton & The Lost Future..

Intelligent design
How Google’s AI R&D teams are building the future of game tech.

An Audience With…
Valve’s CEO and co-founder on planning for the future and optimising productivity.

Time Extend
How Star Wars: Republic Commando redeemed itself by rejecting all things Jedi..

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