Final inning

The life and death of Blaseball, one of gaming's strangest experiments

Video gaze

Why has an assistive technology firm released a compilation of minigames?

Deal of the decade

Microsoft's Activision plan satisfies US courts and (most) third parties thanks to a series of ten-year concessions

TRIBAND GAMES

How the studio behind What The Golf? carved out a niche by defying expectations

THE CASE GOLDEN OF THE IDOL

How two Latvian brothers, seeking to build a better tower defence, instead reimagined the whodunnit

ROGUE LEADER

As Ubisoft makes its big Star Wars debut, Massive makes the bold decision to go small

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

DISPATCHES SEPTEMBER

Dialogue Send your views, using 'Dialogue' as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com. Our letter of the month wins an exclusive Edge T-shirt

Vision quest

Apple finally reveals its XR hardware as Meta scrambles to hail the arrival of a revised Quest

Shadow of the colossusS

With E3 struck off the calendar left of the biggest week in videre's?

TIMES & GALAXY

Robot journalists? A dystopian vision indeed

STRAY GODS: THE ROLEPLAYING MUSICAL

Making choices, awaking voices

SALTSEA CHRONICLES

All aboard for an ensemble adventure

BLASPHEMOUS 2

An expansive sequel embraces its inner Castlevania

COUNTER-STRIKE 2

Anyone seeking clues to the inscrutable Valve’s grand plan for Counter-Strike should look back at CS:GO’s release back in 2012.

COCOON

A beautiful puzzle adventure emerges from its chrysalis

The Case Of The Golden Idol

Color Gray Games’ detective adventure seemed an unlikely candidate for an expansion

X-Com: UFO Defense

What did Firaxis leave behind when adapting alien-invasion strategy for the modern world?

ENDNIGHT GAMES

How The Forest gave a tiny studio an outsized success

THE MAKING OF TUNIC

A game made in the margins

AN AUDIENCE WITH... HENRIQUE OLIFIERS

The Bossa boss on selling off hits, doubling down on co-op, and reinventing the ZX Spectrum

SYNAPTIC LEAP

After a decade in VR, UK studio nDreams is ready for the big time

DEEP TROUBLES

The Chinese Room drills into a rich vein of '70s horror in terrifying firstperson chiller Still Wakes The Deep

Alternate Reality

Adrian Hon on the transformative leap of The Last Clockwinder

Trigger Happy

Steven Poole gets existential about the miracle of Humanity

DISPATCHES AUGUST

Like most people, every waking minute of the past week has involved playing and consuming Tears Of The Kingdom content, but while my timeline has been completely inundated with crazy contraptions and crucified Koroks, it’s Ascend that has surprised me the most out of Link’s arsenal of new powers

Gathering of developers

This year's Develop conference in Brighton features an abundance of game-making talent

Creative crucible

The creator of Shadowrun returns with Adventure Forge, an entirely code-free game-creation kit

All hands on Deck

As the portable PC race hots up, we two rivals to Valve's game-changing weigh up handheld

Changing the narrative

Five years of LudoNarraCon, showcasing videogame storytelling on a digital stage