Edge UK Magazine - June 2024

In this issue

Coming In To Land
Derek Yu and company are finally about to release retro compendium UFO 50. What took them so long?

Breakout
Atari tells us what the future looks like when you have one eye locked onto a glorious past..

Absolute state of the union

What this year's GDC says about the present and future of video game development

5 mins

Snap decisions

What inspired the creation of Downpour, which invites you to turn photos into games?

3 mins

Here be Dragons

What does Poland's key game dev conference have in store?

3 mins

DISPATCHES JUNE

I love playing games. As an almost 40-yearold with a family, though, I spend more time reading about games and writing lists of the games I want to play than actually playing them.

7 mins

Trigger Happy Shoot first, ask questions later

An on-rails driving simulator can be surprisingly immersive. I may be pootling along strictly under the speed limit, but as I turn a corner I find myself leaning over in my seat as though that will help me get a better view of what’s around the bend.

3 mins

The Outer Limits

Journeys fo the farthest reaches of interactive entertainment

3 mins

Narrative Engine

Write it like you stole it

3 mins

PHONOPOLIS

Enter a corrugated dystopia, where everyone's card is marked

3 mins

TAILS OF IRON 2: WHISKERS OF WINTER

It's rats versus bats in Odd Bug's chilly sequel

5 mins

VISIONS OF MANA

The action RPG series returns, as light on its feet as ever

3 mins

VOID SOLS

This abstract indie Soulslike has some bright ideas

2 mins

COMING IN TO LAND

The creator of Spelunky, plus a super-group of indie developers, have spent the best part of a decade making 50 games. Has the journey been worth it?

10+ mins

THE MAKING 0F.... AMERICAN ARCADIA

How a contrast of perspectives added extra layers to a side-scrolling platform game

8 mins

BLUE MANCHU

How enforced early retirement eventually led Jonathan Chey back to System Shock

7 mins

Dragon's Dogma 2

The road from Vernworth to Bakbattahl is scenic but arduous. Ignore the dawdling mobs of goblins, and duck beneath the chanting harpies that circle on the currents overhead, and even moving at a hurried clip it is impossible for a party of four to complete the journey by nightfall.

6 mins

Post Script

The pawn and the pandemic

4 mins

Rise Of The Ronin

Falling in battle simply switches control to the next person up, and then quick revive fixes everything

4 mins

Post Script

What does Rise Of The Ronin say for PS5 exclusivity?

3 mins

Children Of The Sun

René Rother’s acrid revenge thriller – an action game with its limbs broken and forcibly rearranged into the shape of a spatial puzzler – is at once a bonafide original and an unlikely throwback. Cast your eyes right and you wouldn’t blink if we told you this was a forgotten Grasshopper Manufacture game from the early PS3 era (we won’t be at all surprised if this finds a spot on Suda51’s end-of-year list).

4 mins

Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles

Anyone familiar with the concept of kitbashing is already halfway to understanding what Tomas Sala’s open-world builder is all about.

4 mins

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