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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Edge

The pricing game • What’s the real cost of videogames in 2025, for both the people who play them and those behind the scenes?

QNTM entanglement • Videogames and literature collide in the search for new forms

Luna lander • Amazon’s cloud service is relaunching. Is this finally Luna’s moment in the sun?

PAGE VIEW • Japanese developer DeskWorks has us following a paper trail in its vividly realised Metroidvania

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

DISPATCHES JANUARY

Trigger Happy • Shoot first, ask questions later

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

HYPE • THE GAMES IN OUR SIGHTS THIS MONTH

Making an exception

TIDES OF TOMORROW • Confronting the consequences of other people’s actions

VALOR MORTIS • Napoleon blown apart

ROGUE POINT • A stripped-back co-op FPS from the team behind Black Mesa

DRAGON QUEST VII: REIMAGINED • Can a serious makeover preserve the original’s identity?

POLY FIGHTER • Fight like a Rogue

GLOOMY JUNCTURE • Finding hope in seedy alleys and dive bars

ROUNDUP

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#418 • VIDEOGAME CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY

STRONG MUDDY VIOLENCE • What happens when you mix the tech of SnowRunner and Space Marine 2 in a co-op shooter with' 80s flavour to spare? Toxic Commando has the answer

FOREVER WAR • From inventing the extraction shooter to finally reaching 1.0, the creator of Escape From Tarkov has refused to compromise on its original game-changing vision

COLLECTED WORKS CHARLES CECIL • From exploding lightbulbs to the Knights Templar – via Ron Howard and the Daleks

COUNTER-STRIKE • From university-dorm hobby project to Valve’s billion-dollar money factory

FAILBETTER GAMES • The industry’s finest sustainable storyteller shifts towards ‘fireside menace’

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

ARC Raiders

Post Script • Directional input

The Outer Worlds 2

Post Script • Corporate flatter

SPECIAL EDITION! 2026 CALENDAR

Where Winds Meet

Lumines Arise

Wreckreation

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2

Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment

Dead Static Drive

Possessor(s)

Forestrike

Once Upon A Katamari

Dreams • The would-be PS4 sleeper hit that never fully awoke to its potential

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

#419 December 24