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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Machine learnings • With Steam Machine revived and Xbox betting on Windows, will 2026 bring down the walls between PC and console?

Checks and balances • What is it about chess that keeps indie developers coming back to the board?

Bonding exercise • How games become books – and vice versa – in the quest for character

FAMILY AT WAR • Classic animation meets classic sibling rivalry in Thunder Lotus’s fascinating fantasy world

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

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HYPE • THE GAMES IN OUR SIGHTS THIS MONTH

More games, more problems

NIOH 3 • Are you team ninja or samurai?

RELOOTED • Colonial crimes meet parkour in an ingenious heist caper

CRISOL: THEATER OF IDOLS • A religion-infused nightmare from the cultural heart of Spain

SERPENT’S GAZE • A debut inspired by ninja dreams and art nouveau

WITHERING REALMS • Expanding on 2024’s cult-hit Soulslike from another perspective

ROUNDUP

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ANYTHING GOES • Grasshopper’s latest production is anarchic, bizarre, and perhaps its most coherent vision in years

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CRITICAL HIT • How a startup studio took the industry by storm–and what comes next

FALLOUT 3 • How Bethesda reimagined the world of Fallout – and became a new studio in the process

8-4 • Meet the localisation specialists who’ve spent two decades bridging the gap between Japan and the west

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Worth the wait?

Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

Post Script • Is there any energy left in Samus Aran’s tank?

Routine

Post Script • Fight or flight

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Skate Story

Kirby Air Riders

Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7

Demonschool

Hotel Infinity

Dispatch

Sleep Awake

Octopath Traveler 0

Horses

Marvel Cosmic Invasion

Max Payne 3 • Rockstar’s sequel rips the detective out of New York and the traditional noir genre

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

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