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To be clear: the phrase “More powerful than God” to describe the original PlayStation console was never a legit piece of editorial in Edge, but that didn’t stop Sony’s marketing team printing it with heatproof ink onto many thousands of sheets of per

Tony Mott editorial director Alex Spencer deputy editor Jon Bailes games editor  Miriam McDonald operations editor Warren Brown group art director  Ryan Robbins designer Jennifer Allen, Callum Bains, Julian Benson, Ruth Cassidy, Matthew Castle, Chris

Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene Game Alpha Ops VR Strike  Manufacturer Sega With COVID rebounding in waves, we’re still a bit reluctant to strap arcade-based VR headsets to our faces, but Sega’s latest venture in the field feels at least a

bridgecommand.space Having toured the sets of this London-based space sim while it was being built, back in E396, we knew broadly what to expect. The scale and fidelity of its Star Trek-styled interiors remain impressive, though, provided you can st

Our exploration of Civilization VII and conversation with its creative director, Ed Beach, has us thinking about the alliances that might arise. With the new game placing greater emphasis on leaders, encompassing a wider definition of the term and de

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Developer Firaxis Games Publisher 2K Format PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, Switch Origin US Release February 11 As creative director of the Civilization series, Ed Beach is one of the more precise and economical thinkers in videogame design. As

Developer Okomotive Publisher Panic Inc  Format PC, PS5, Xbox Series  Origin Switzerland Release 2025 The noise of traffic is a welcome intrusion at the start of Okomotive’s latest adventure. In its Far games, Lone Sails and Changing Tides, we were s

Developer The Game Kitchen Publisher Tripwire Interactive Format PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series Origin Spain Release January 28 After Blasphemous and its sequel, we didn’t expect The Game Kitchen’s next title to remind us of Commandos. For many Spanish

Developer/publisher Dreamlit Inc Format PC, PS5 Origin US Release TBA Match Towers Of Aghasba in action and it feels vast. Given your activities range from deepwater dives to climbing up cliffs or lumbering beasts, and from nurturing plants or buildi

Developer By Sam Eng Publisher Devolver Digital  Format PC  Origin US  Release TBA The first time we met Sam Eng, at June’s Summer Game Fest, he arrived clutching the skateboard he rode across LA to get there. There’s no question, then, that the Skat

Developer/publisher Studio Imugi Format PC Origin Canada Release TBA No sooner have we stepped into the boots of royal guard Bonaparte than we’re faced with a life-altering decision. An army of workers advances on the Bastille: do we repel them or de

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What’s it like trying to balance the needs of players who have been here for 20 years and people asking, ‘Should I give it a go?’ It’s a challenge. I think that any long-running game faces that challenge of a core of players who are experts at the ga

The UK has become a hot spot for co-development, something Roberts says is a result of the country’s “chaotic but creative” history of game-making. “There were a lot of big companies in the tail end of the ’90s and early ’00s that sort of fell apart,

At what point did you decide to create a card game for Rebirth? The card games in Final Fantasy VIII and IX left a strong impression on me. They are what I think of most when it comes to minigames in the series, so I wanted to do something similar in

Miniatures PC As the name suggests, small is king in this collection of interactive short stories exploring the applications of point-and-click control. The Last Sand Castle is most pleasing to toy with – a single-screen overview of the titular struc

Developer BioWare Publisher Electronic Arts Format PC (tested), PS5, Xbox Series Release Out now With Dragon Age: The Veilguard, BioWare has made a deeply self-conscious game, visibly inspired by some of the best-loved ideas from Dragon Age and Mass

There is no matter more unresolved among Dragon Age admirers than ‘which game is the best?’ Every entry in the series is distinctly different from the one that came before it, since not only does each iteration feature a new protagonist and explore n

Developer/publisher Capcom (Production Studio 4) Format PS2 Release 2001 Had you been of school age in the early 2000s, you might have picked up hushed rumours of a peculiar new videogame from Japan. Available to only those children whose parents did