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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Small packages • If short games really are getting more popular, why is it happening, and how do their developers make money?

Improvised fear • For Tim Oxton, nailed-down mechanics or design docs aren’t required for terrifying horror games

Cheat the rich • How history’s wealthiest man helped a small German studio discover its true identity

TEEN SPIRIT ANIMAL • Keeping the band together may be hard work with members this wild

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

FOR PEOPLE WHO ♥ RETRO GAMES

HYPE • THE GAMES IN OUR SIGHTS THIS MONTH

Futureproof

ORDER OF THE SINKING STAR • Crossworld puzzle

MARVEL TOKON: FIGHTING SOULS • Assembly required

GANG OF FROGS • Spawn to be wild

MOVES OF THE DIAMOND HAND • A dice-driven journey through the wonders of everyday life

TENEBRIS SOMNIA • Pixel art meets live action in a horror of clashing styles

CURIOSMOS • Chart a path through the solar system, one comet at a time

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THE REBEL PATH • For Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, director of The Blood Of Dawnwalker, the future of RPGs lies not in ever-larger worlds but in the stories players skip, miss or abandon

combat EVOLVED • The creators of modern scrolling beat-’em-ups on the triumphant fightback of a fallen genre

COLLECTED WORKS GAVIN RAEBURN • The simcade savant with Dirt under his fingernails who made a habit out of revolutionising a genre

KINGDOM COME: DELIVERANCE II • How a niche historical RPG became a cultural phenomenon

LIZARDCUBE • Inside the French developer reviving some of the most beloved games from Japan

PLAY • REVIEWS. PERSPECTIVES. INTERVIEWS. AND SOME NUMBERS

Room for one more

Terra Invicta

Death Howl

Terminator 2D: No Fate

DuneCrawl

Unbeatable

TR-49

Perfect Tides: Station To Station

Splitgate: Arena Reloaded

Big Hops

Dogpile

Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night • How a change of direction for a classic series created half a genre

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

#421 February 19