Edge UK Magazine - October 2023

In this issue

Final inning
Reflections on the inimitable Blaseball from its intrepid creators.

As Above, So Below
After 13 years in the development wilderness, Remedy’s Alan Wake 2 is finally ready for its closeup.

Silence Is Gordon
From Freeman to Master Chief: exploring the unlikely ascendancy of the mute videogame protagonist..

Deal of the decade

Microsoft's Activision plan satisfies US courts and (most) third parties thanks to a series of ten-year concessions

8 mins

Video gaze

Why has an assistive technology firm released a compilation of minigames?

4 mins

Final inning

The life and death of Blaseball, one of gaming's strangest experiments

3 mins

LORDS OF THE FALLEN

Though its knightly get-ups remind us of the Arthurian tone of Dark Souls, and its gothic environments carry the miasma of Bloodborne’s Yharnam, it doesn’t take long for Hexworks’ Soulslike to spill beyond the mould in which it’s been set.

5 mins

FOREVER SKIES

Though its knightly get-ups remind us of the Arthurian tone of Dark Souls, and its gothic environments carry the miasma of Bloodborne’s Yharnam, it doesn’t take long for Hexworks’ Soulslike to spill beyond the mould in which it’s been set.

5 mins

LAIKA: AGED THROUGH BLOOD

This apocalypse is not for the birds

3 mins

AS ABOVE SO BELOW

After 13 years, Remedy is ready to make the game of its dreams

10+ mins

SILENCE IS GORDON

Why does the mute protagonist still loom large over the landscape of firstperson-viewed games?

10+ mins

DREAM TICKET

As Media Molecule prepares to move on, we get the inside track on Tren, its spectacular swan song for Dreams

10+ mins

THE MAKING OF... HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER

How Blackbird Interactive cracked the formula for a sci-fi tale of dystopian deconstruction

10 mins

DAMBUSTER STUDIOS

How the former Free Radical found the fun amid corporate crises

9 mins

Dragon's Lair

An old-fashioned dose of movie magic - but one that trades in a novel type of glamour

7 mins

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