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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Not safe for videogames • Pressured by payment processors, games and their creators still struggle with adult material

Jack to the future • Having taken a year off from its usual release schedule, party-game maestro Jackbox is back with a bang

What’s in the ’box? • The 11th will be the first Party Pack with completely new games, although four fall into familiar genres, with something for everyone

Cracking the code • How experimental-game specialist Alex Johansson is bringing telegraphy to the masses with Morse

MODEL OF VIRTUE • Solving crime in this miniature village may be a bigger job than it seems

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 NOVEMBER

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

Blood in, blood out

NINJA GAIDEN 4 • The ultimate meeting of precision and style

RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM • It doesn’t take a Village

VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE – BLOODLINES 2 • The Chinese Room’s sequel brings the Phyre

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: SCATTERED HOPES • The sound of Cylons

INDUSTRIA 2 • Turning a minor FPS hit into a survival-horror sequel

DOSA DIVAS • From thirsty to hungry

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RALLY POINT • Why EA is razing Battlefield to its foundations in order to build something new

HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER • Does Riot have whatit takes to shake upthe fighting gamescene with 2XKO?

SECOND LIFE • Remakes and remasters may seem like easy money, but just how difficult is it to get it right?

EXPELLED! • Inkle’s Overboard prequel offered ingenious innovations – but got a raw deal at launch

STRANGE SCAFFOLD • How to embrace the weird while keeping the culture and games focused on people

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Know more heroes

Mafia: The Old Country

Post Script • A clockwork heart can’t beat faster

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance

Sword Of The Sea

Shuten Order

Herdling

Echoes Of The End

Abyssus

Drag X Drive

Is This Seat Taken?

It Came From The Desert • Cinemaware’s B-movie homage pushed the vision of interactive cinema to new heights

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

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