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Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

REDFALL

Which is fortunate, because learning that this team is working on an open-world co-op shooter with vampires is frankly disappointing. There was no shortage of Left-4-Dead-alike at this year’s show and, at first glance, it doesn’t seem like a structure that plays to Arkane’s strengths. But then we consider that the Austin team’s previous project was Mooncrash, a Prey expansion that pushed the immersive sim into Roguelike territory – not to mention Deathloop’s exciting experiments with multiplayer – and Redfall makes sense as an evolution of this lineage, rather than simply a comfortable repetition.

SECRET WEAPON

Could Naraka: Bladepoint be the surprise challenger to break the battle royale stalemate?

THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD 2

As Nintendo’s own press site calls it, Sequel To The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild cannot have its official title unveiled just yet, because it might give too much away – a clue to something significant about this much-anticipated successor.

COLLECTED WORKS GLEN SCHOFIELD

The artist-turned-producer reflects on 30 years with very little dead space

DISPATCHES Dialogue

Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’ as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com. Our letter of the month wins a 12-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership

ARTISAN CRAFTS

Has wood ever been this good?

SONG IN THE SMOKE

17-Bit’s VR survival game takes us into the prehistoric wilds

KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS

Heading into the woods with Ember Lab’s breezy action-adventure

TAKING FLIGHT

A world-first hands-on with Jett: The Far Shore, as Superbrothers’ sci-fi adventure prepares for lift-off

INSTRUMENTS OF DESTRUCTION

Red Faction’s tech lead brings the house down once more

Journey's End

Naoki Yoshida looks ahead to Final Fantasy XIV’s Endwalker expansion, and the future beyond

New dawn

Halo Infinite’s former creative director on how he’s getting the band back together

Store wars

Epic vs Apple feels like the beginning, not the end, of a shake-up in digital distribution

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Unreliable Narrator

Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales

How Can Gaming Get Greener?

And are the UK industry’s attempts to tackle the climate crisis enough?

THE GAME KITCHEN

How a small group of friends brought beautiful nightmares to life with their blood, sweat and tears

TWELVE MINUTES

And you’re back in the room

Nurturing nature

How Afrofuturist strategy game We Are The Caretakers is helping to tackle real-world rhino poaching

SOLAR FLAIR

Heart Machine’s elegant action-platformer redefines open-world traversal

Celeste

How facing inner turmoil helped us climb a mountain

ROAD 96

Taking a trip that delights in the path not taken

PLAYING POLITICS

From triple-A to two-person teams, the developers refusing to shy away from politics in their games

GORD

Exploring the darkness on the edge of town

Broadcast media

Behind the scenes of Ghosts, an FMV-based game that can only be played once per day

THE MAKING OF... STREETS OF RAGE 4

How a team of French Japanophiles cashed in their credits to revive a classic Sega series

TEAM NINJA

The Ninja Gaiden and Nioh developer enters an exciting new era

LAST STOP

All change for the Virginia dev’s surprising science-fiction anthology

SEVERED STEEL

This indie FPS is a cut above