Edge

The authority on videogame art, design and play, Edge is the must-have companion for game industry professionals, aspiring game-makers and super-committed hobbyists. Its mission is to celebrate the best in interactive entertainment today and identify the most important developments of tomorrow, providing the most trusted, in-depth editorial in the business via unparalleled access to the developers and technologies that make videogames the world’s most dynamic form of entertainment.

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The play’s the thing • The interactivity of videogames makes them more powerful than other media, but what are the knock-on effects in censorship?

Breaking the loop • Director Genki Kawamura explains how he transferred an indie horror game to the cinema screen with Exit 8

Poetry in motion • How mechanics, visualisation and player experiences rhyme with each other to reveal new artistic depths

ON REFLECTION • Look closely at the water and all is not as it seems in this beautiful, quietly surreal puzzle game

Soundbytes • Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

THIS MONTH ON EDGE • Some of the other things on our minds when we weren’t doing everything else

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

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

The Outer Limits • Journeys to the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A CLASSIC GAME?

HYPE • THE GAMES IN OUR SIGHTS THIS MONTH

MASTERS OF ALBION • Peter Molyneux’s final fantasy

HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME • Putting in extra hours with a cyborg gone Rogue

SLAY THE SPIRE 2 • Does this deckbuilding sequel tower over the competition?

TIME TAKERS • Can this free-to-play shooter stay ahead of the clock?

SILVER PINES • The haunted Pacific Northwest claims another troubled soul

PRIME MONSTER • Braying terrors meet in the amphitheatre of parliamentary debate

HYPE ROUNDUP

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SCIENCE FRICTION • Welcome to the world of Ontos, where fact is fiction, reality is clay, and the human brain is made of rats

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ON THIS ROCK • With Unreal Engine and Unity delivering on so many levels, what drives developers to stay the course with custom game engines?

UNFINISHED BUSINESS • Releasing incomplete games is an established practice in modern publishing, but what does early access mean for the creation process?

THE MAKING OF… BALL X PIT • From Breakout clone to breakout hit, by way of a lot of spreadsheets

OKOMOTIVE • Breaking away from the herd mentality in slow, steady and very Swiss fashion

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Crimson Desert

Post Script • Bigger, certainly, but better?

Marathon

Post Script • Cold-blooded

SFX

Life Is Strange: Reunion

Greedfall: The Dying World

Darwin’s Paradox

Super Meat Boy 3D

Screamer

People Of Note

Pokémon Pokopia

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Metroid Prime • How Retro Studios’ trailblazing action adventure proved that silence is golden

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THE LONG GAME • A progress report on the games we just can’t quit

#424 • May 14