Entertainment
Edge UK
Rematch
Rocket League without the wheels — what will they think of next?
4 min |
September 2025
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Splitgate 2
The edges have been softened, and it threatens to fade into the omnipresent haze of live-service shooters
4 min |
September 2025
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STALKER 2: HEART OF CHORNOBYL
How GSC defied closure, the pandemic and an invasion to realise its most ambitious project
8 min |
September 2025
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DIGITAL ECLIPSE
The California company with an expert eye for repackaging game history
7 min |
September 2025
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Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour
Like us, we imagine that your first goal on setting up a new console is not to sit and read about its features but to play with them. And yet the first exhibit we land on in Welcome Tour is a series of information boards explaining the ins and outs of Switch 2’s new mouse control, followed by a quiz in which we regurgitate the information just fed to us.
2 min |
September 2025
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Mario Kart World
Has the Mushroom Kingdom ever made sense as a coherent world? Certainly that's never been the priority of Nintendo's designers over the previous decades, laying its foundations over various series, genres and generations. So it's a joyous surprise to drive from one end of World's incarnation and discover how natural it all feels to have this place, these places, presented as a single landmass.
6 min |
September 2025
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Hitman: World Of Assassination
When your job is bumping off terrible people with too much money and power, you'll never be short of work.
2 min |
September 2025
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The Alters
Sometimes your life changes in a moment, and as much as you want to pause time and retrace your steps, the world moves on into the following hours and days, and takes you with it. This is the world builder Jan Dolski finds himself in when he is the only survivor of a crash on a mission to find the world-changing element rapidium. It's his job now to operate the mobile base and return to Earth — and hopefully finish the mission, too. There is no time to lose: come sunrise, the intense radiation will mean game over.
4 min |
September 2025
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Date Everything!
Perhaps this is what Marx meant when he talked about the commodity fetish. Date Everything is a game in which you more or less do as the title says. A mysterious benefactor grants you glasses that transform every object in your house, from the microwave to the smoke alarm, into a sort of human being. Then you get to know them and influence them to like, love or hate you. There is an overarching plot, detailing the motives of your benefactor, but you'll spend most of your time talking to objects (and solving a few puzzles in the explorable house).
1 min |
September 2025
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FBC: Firebreak
It's an amusingly quirky notion, but it wears thin as you empty bullets into pile after pile of stationary stationery
4 min |
September 2025
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MindsEye
There are big problems in Redrock, MindsEye’s techbro-infested near-future analogue of Las Vegas. Some of them are authored deliberately and satirically by developer Build A Rocket Boy — this is a narrative-led open-world shooter set in a city run by CEOs in baseball caps and self-interested government officials, and as you look around at malfunctioning Al robots and palatial tech company headquarters, you're reminded that it feels a bit close to home.
4 min |
September 2025
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Dune: Awakening
Progress in Dune: Awakening can be divided into two distinct parts: before and after flight.
4 min |
September 2025
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DISPATCHES SEPTEMBER
Now that I'm a chap in my late 30s, it is not uncommon to get nostalgia for games I played growing up.
6 min |
September 2025
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The Outer Limits
Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment
3 min |
September 2025
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Sensible software?
How Swedish group Aonic is growing an ambitious stable of studios - and doing things differently from Embracer
3 min |
September 2025
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SPACE ODDITY
How Capcom's singular sci-fi shooter is delivering on promises made long ago
9 min |
September 2025
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Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
To help us recall the rhythm of Kojima Productions' unique debut, we're asked to walk a mile — or thereabouts — in its protagonist's shoes. Eleven months after reconnecting a fractured USA, Sam Porter Bridges is in hiding with Lou, the government-owned pod-baby he's now secretly adopted. As the game begins, Sam gazes out over a remote peak with Lou strapped to his chest; our task is simply to guide them home. We begin to trot down bumpy slopes, learning once again to watch our step, hold the triggers to maintain balance, and wield the left stick with care.
10 min |
September 2025
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ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROAM
Are open-world games one genre or many? And where are they headed?
10+ min |
September 2025
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THE TOP 100
THE BEST, BIGGEST AND OTHERWISE NOTABLE GAMES FROM THIS SUMMER'S BLOWOUT
10+ min |
September 2025
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This is an Xbox
Microsoft commits to pushing its console branding everywhere, extending to handheld PCs from Asus
7 min |
September 2025
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Trigger Happy
Shoot first, ask questions later
3 min |
September 2025
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Adjacency bonus
It's time to finally put the deck of cards to one side: tiles are the foundation of a burgeoning new genre
3 min |
September 2025
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DREAMS OF ANOTHER
Pondering existence with help from an assault rifle
5 min |
August 2025
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CREATING HAVK
How a modest team of Dubliners elevated the art of game physics
10+ min |
August 2025
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Holding on to the past
How is Japan's Game Preservation Society doing in its mission to preserve its own future?
3 min |
August 2025
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State of Playdate
As its second season of games arrives, we catch up with the little yellow handheld that could
7 min |
August 2025
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VENBA
How a small team of Canadian developers came together to cook up a storm
7 min |
August 2025
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Changing tide
Develop prepares for celebratory looks at the past mixed with uncertain glances to the future
3 min |
August 2025
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COLLECTED WORKS SAM LAKE
Talking parallel dimensions with the would-be novelist who accidentally became the public face of Remedy
10+ min |
August 2025
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Concrete Genie
Filling in the gaps between art and puzzle design
7 min |