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Edge

Feb 01 2025
Magazine

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.

Give us the ingredients and we’ll handle the rest

Edge

Fatal error • The videogame industry is broken. How to fix it?

CRT-URE COMFORTS • Toby Dixon unleashes the beast within

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

Narrative Engine • Write it like you stole it

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

ON SALE NOW!

THE GAMES IN OUR SIGHTS THIS MONTH

Roads less travelled

DEEPEST FEAR • There must be something in the water

WHEEL WORLD • Demons, bikes and Italo-disco collide in this open-world adventure

LONELY MOUNTAINS: SNOW RIDERS • Go down and take everybody with you

INTO THE MAW • A team-building exercise of interstellar proportions

KEEP DRIVING • The really real driving simulator

MYTHMATCH • Building a community, three at a time

HYPE ROUNDUP

SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND SAVE 45% *

#406 • VIDEOGAME CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY

OF ICE AND FIRE • Meet the industry veterans bringing systemic chaos to the RPG formula, one frozen dragon at a time

THE EDGE AWARDS

Q+A • DEREK YU, JON PERRY, EIRIK SUHRKE, TYRIQ PLUMMER

RISE OF THE ROBOT • How a small team inside SIE Japan made the game of the year

PACIFIC DRIVE • How late-night drives and memorable breakdowns informed the year’s most distinctive survival game

Q&A

RED CANDLE GAMES • How to navigate huge change, from TV adaptations to angering a superpower

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Technical difficulties

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle

Post Script • Can’t beat the real thing

STALKER 2: Heart Of Chornobyl

Post Script • Does STALKER’s canon hold its own?

THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE SCI-FL, FANTASY & HORROR MAGAZINE

Marvel Rivals

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Behemoth

Infinity Nikki

The Spirit Of The Samurai

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island

Void Sols

30 Birds

Bowser’s Fury • It’s the first open-world Mario game, so why does it all feel so comforting and familiar?

DOWNLOAD THE EDGE APP AND GET YOUR FIRST ISSUE FREE

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

#407 January 23


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Frequency: Monthly Pages: 132 Publisher: Future Publishing Ltd Edition: Feb 01 2025

OverDrive Magazine

  • Release date: December 31, 2024

Formats

OverDrive Magazine

subjects

Tech & Gaming

Languages

English

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.

Give us the ingredients and we’ll handle the rest

Edge

Fatal error • The videogame industry is broken. How to fix it?

CRT-URE COMFORTS • Toby Dixon unleashes the beast within

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

Narrative Engine • Write it like you stole it

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

ON SALE NOW!

THE GAMES IN OUR SIGHTS THIS MONTH

Roads less travelled

DEEPEST FEAR • There must be something in the water

WHEEL WORLD • Demons, bikes and Italo-disco collide in this open-world adventure

LONELY MOUNTAINS: SNOW RIDERS • Go down and take everybody with you

INTO THE MAW • A team-building exercise of interstellar proportions

KEEP DRIVING • The really real driving simulator

MYTHMATCH • Building a community, three at a time

HYPE ROUNDUP

SUBSCRIBE TODAY AND SAVE 45% *

#406 • VIDEOGAME CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT, PEOPLE AND TECHNOLOGY

OF ICE AND FIRE • Meet the industry veterans bringing systemic chaos to the RPG formula, one frozen dragon at a time

THE EDGE AWARDS

Q+A • DEREK YU, JON PERRY, EIRIK SUHRKE, TYRIQ PLUMMER

RISE OF THE ROBOT • How a small team inside SIE Japan made the game of the year

PACIFIC DRIVE • How late-night drives and memorable breakdowns informed the year’s most distinctive survival game

Q&A

RED CANDLE GAMES • How to navigate huge change, from TV adaptations to angering a superpower

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Technical difficulties

Indiana Jones And The Great Circle

Post Script • Can’t beat the real thing

STALKER 2: Heart Of Chornobyl

Post Script • Does STALKER’s canon hold its own?

THE WORLD’S NUMBER ONE SCI-FL, FANTASY & HORROR MAGAZINE

Marvel Rivals

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024

Behemoth

Infinity Nikki

The Spirit Of The Samurai

Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island

Void Sols

30 Birds

Bowser’s Fury • It’s the first open-world Mario game, so why does it all feel so comforting and familiar?

DOWNLOAD THE EDGE APP AND GET YOUR FIRST ISSUE FREE

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

#407 January 23


Expand title description text
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