Developer/publisher Gungho Online Entertainment Format Android, iOS Release 2012 There are two pillars to a free-to-play game’s longevity: successful monetisation and rapacious power creep. How do you get people to keep spending money? Offer somethin

How did the process of setting up a virtual concert with Travis Scott start? Phil Rampulla Travis had been a fan of Fortnite for a long time, and that stream with Ninja and Drake and Juju and Travis was the beginning of it all. And when we know we ha

Developer/publisher Sloclap Format PC, PS4, PS5 Origin France Release 2021 Your master is dead, and you’re on a mission to take down the five assassins responsible for his demise. Each is protected by an army of goons that you need to defeat single-h

It may have picked up multiple Game Of The Year awards and helped its developer to record its best financial year to date, but don’t tell Remedy CEO Tero Virtala to rest on his laurels where Control is concerned Zynga’s Phuong Phillips announces a co

An accepted truth in our industry is that no one knows how a game is going to work until they make it. This is why games are always late and sometimes don’t work out, despite best intentions. But is this really the case? As I grow older and more cont

Developer Feral Cat Den Publisher Fellow Traveller Format PC (tested), Xbox One Release March 26 The Big Bang told through the lens of a classic noir? Not that old chestnut. As the film critic Mark Kermode once noted, 2001: A Space Odyssey takes the

Developer Four Quarters Publisher Devolver Digital Format PC Release Out now Most of the imagined adventures we go on these days are lavish affairs, cast against the backdrops of vast, detailed open worlds. Loop Hero rejects that, taking the generic

Welcome, voyager, to Antescher. Please watch your step, and read this important travel guide. “To explore the eerie ruins,” it reads, “without at least a motion scanner to warn of the sudden appearance of the gigantic ants, is still considered suicid

Wolf & Wood’s firstperson narrative adventure The Last Worker won’t look quite like this – 2000AD artist Mick McMahon has produced this exclusive piece for Edge by painting on top of in-game assets. Though, as writer-director Jörg Tittel notes, “our

We realise we’ve done something wrong when the wooden door won’t open from the outside. To the glitch pop already pumping in our headphones, we add a flurry of hasty rightclicks, to no avail. The set we’ve all queued so long to see is just about to s

Developer Claytechworks Publisher Nintendo Format Switch Release Out now For a while, the third Bravely Default game is as confounding as its title. We’re loath ever to say of a game “it gets good after 20 hours” – anything that takes that long to fi

Developer/publisher Nintendo (EPD) Format Switch Origin Japan Release 2022 Developer Heart Machine Publisher Annapurna Format PC, PS4, PS5 Origin US Release 2021 Developer Ace Team Publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment Format PC, PS4, Xbox One Origin

Developer Hidden Fields Publisher MWM interactive Format PC (tested), PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series Release Out now See that mountain? You can climb it, though you might not be the same shape when you return. This folk horror adventure tell