Puzzle-gaming
Edge UK
Children Of The Sun
René Rother’s acrid revenge thriller – an action game with its limbs broken and forcibly rearranged into the shape of a spatial puzzler – is at once a bonafide original and an unlikely throwback. Cast your eyes right and you wouldn’t blink if we told you this was a forgotten Grasshopper Manufacture game from the early PS3 era (we won’t be at all surprised if this finds a spot on Suda51’s end-of-year list).
4 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Post Script
What does Rise Of The Ronin say for PS5 exclusivity?
3 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Rise Of The Ronin
Falling in battle simply switches control to the next person up, and then quick revive fixes everything
4 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Post Script
The pawn and the pandemic
4 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Dragon's Dogma 2
The road from Vernworth to Bakbattahl is scenic but arduous. Ignore the dawdling mobs of goblins, and duck beneath the chanting harpies that circle on the currents overhead, and even moving at a hurried clip it is impossible for a party of four to complete the journey by nightfall.
6 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
BLUE MANCHU
How enforced early retirement eventually led Jonathan Chey back to System Shock
7 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
THE MAKING 0F.... AMERICAN ARCADIA
How a contrast of perspectives added extra layers to a side-scrolling platform game
8 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
COMING IN TO LAND
The creator of Spelunky, plus a super-group of indie developers, have spent the best part of a decade making 50 games. Has the journey been worth it?
10+ min |
June 2024
Edge UK
VOID SOLS
This abstract indie Soulslike has some bright ideas
2 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
VISIONS OF MANA
The action RPG series returns, as light on its feet as ever
3 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
TAILS OF IRON 2: WHISKERS OF WINTER
It's rats versus bats in Odd Bug's chilly sequel
5 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
PHONOPOLIS
Enter a corrugated dystopia, where everyone's card is marked
3 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Narrative Engine
Write it like you stole it
3 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
The Outer Limits
Journeys fo the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment
3 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Trigger Happy Shoot first, ask questions later
An on-rails driving simulator can be surprisingly immersive. I may be pootling along strictly under the speed limit, but as I turn a corner I find myself leaning over in my seat as though that will help me get a better view of what’s around the bend.
3 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
DISPATCHES JUNE
I love playing games. As an almost 40-yearold with a family, though, I spend more time reading about games and writing lists of the games I want to play than actually playing them.
7 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Here be Dragons
What does Poland's key game dev conference have in store?
3 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Snap decisions
What inspired the creation of Downpour, which invites you to turn photos into games?
3 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Absolute state of the union
What this year's GDC says about the present and future of video game development
5 min |
June 2024
Edge UK
Hi-Fi Rush
A progress report on the games we just can't quit
2 min |
October 2023
Edge UK
Dragon's Lair
An old-fashioned dose of movie magic - but one that trades in a novel type of glamour
7 min |
October 2023
Edge UK
DAMBUSTER STUDIOS
How the former Free Radical found the fun amid corporate crises
9 min |
October 2023
Edge UK
THE MAKING OF... HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER
How Blackbird Interactive cracked the formula for a sci-fi tale of dystopian deconstruction
10 min |
October 2023
Edge UK
DREAM TICKET
As Media Molecule prepares to move on, we get the inside track on Tren, its spectacular swan song for Dreams
10+ min |
October 2023
Edge UK
SILENCE IS GORDON
Why does the mute protagonist still loom large over the landscape of firstperson-viewed games?
10+ min |
October 2023
Edge UK
AS ABOVE SO BELOW
After 13 years, Remedy is ready to make the game of its dreams
10+ min |
October 2023
Edge UK
LAIKA: AGED THROUGH BLOOD
This apocalypse is not for the birds
3 min |
October 2023
Edge UK
FOREVER SKIES
Though its knightly get-ups remind us of the Arthurian tone of Dark Souls, and its gothic environments carry the miasma of Bloodborne’s Yharnam, it doesn’t take long for Hexworks’ Soulslike to spill beyond the mould in which it’s been set.
5 min |
October 2023
Edge UK
LORDS OF THE FALLEN
Though its knightly get-ups remind us of the Arthurian tone of Dark Souls, and its gothic environments carry the miasma of Bloodborne’s Yharnam, it doesn’t take long for Hexworks’ Soulslike to spill beyond the mould in which it’s been set.
5 min |
October 2023
Edge UK
Final inning
The life and death of Blaseball, one of gaming's strangest experiments
3 min |