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Speak up • Videogame actors explain why they won’t stand for AI
Bard choices • The first videogame from the Royal Shakespeare Company transplants Macbeth into modern Iran
Games done quick • With over 100 games on its CV, developer collective Sokpop is well set to make 100 more
Fantastic four • Each member of Sokpop explains one of their favourite creations
RAT WITH A GAT • A cartoon detective shooter that isn’t taking the Mickey
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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THE GAMES IN OUR SIGHTS THIS MONTH
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ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN • Going on the run with FromSoftware’s unexpected spinoff
HIROGAMI • The Bandai Namco studio turning over a new leaf with a papercraft platformer
ABSOLUM • Dotemu lets the beat-’em-up go Rogue for its first original IP
CHIP ’N CLAWZ VS THE BRAINIOIDS • Strategy master Julian Gollop makes a tactical switch
SOLASTA II • A true 3D sequel: dungeons, dragons and dice
CRESCENT COUNTY • A broomstick bildungsroman
JANET DEMORNAY IS A SLUMLORD (AND A WITCH) • Black magic meets black mould in this renter’s nightmare
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PIECE OF MIND • Leslie Benzies’ first game since GTAV is refreshingly old-fashioned – even as it makes way for an ambitious future
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COLLECTED WORKS MARK HEALEY • The coder with an artist’s flair on 8bit beginnings, making a splash with UGC, and returning to the god game genre
ALL HANDS ON DECKS • The PC handheld scene is exploding, but can Valve’s Steam Deck be toppled?
PORTABLE PERMUTATIONS • COMPARING TODAY’S MOST NOTABLE PC GAME DECKS
Q + A : MANUEL LINNIG, MARKETING DIRECTOR, ACER • WHAT MOTIVATED ACER TO GO SUPER-SIZED WITH ITS NITRO BLAZE 11?
1000 X RESIST • How the pandemic propelled a team of performance-arts practitioners into a new dystopian future
SABOTAGE STUDIO • How remodelling the past for modern audiences turned Québécois dreams into reality
PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS
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Post Script • Is there more to life than hit points?
Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii
Post Script • Never mind the quality, feel the thrift
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