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bit.ly/pileuppoker After a few months in the grip of a Balatro habit (that Steam play time number can’t be right, surely?), here’s a nice soft comedown. The latest Puzzmo addition is similarly poker-themed, presenting you with a 36-card deck – six th

Poor Marie Kondo. Not so long ago, you couldn’t move for excitable buzz around her no-nonsense approach to realigning your mojo. Eventually and inevitably, though, she was stuffed into the cupboard to go along with all those other things that were so

Game Mega Shot Manufacturer Jet Games Corporation Is it possible to have too much screen? The Florida-based Jet Games certainly doesn’t think so: its latest lightgun shooter uses two 85” panels mounted next to each other vertically to create an overa

Four years before the very first issue of this magazine (happy 20-squared birthday, Edge!), a game was released that arguably represented the original seed of videogames’ turn to the ‘cinematic’. The remarkably fluid and lifelike animation of Jordan

The first properly bright day of summer, and I’m agreeing to be locked inside a shipping container. It’s one of three in this Docklands storage yard-cum-rave venue where Darkfield, proprietor of ‘immersive 360-degree audio experiences’, preps them to

So I played a game today that opened with a paragraph of prose roughly as long as the observable universe. When it started, I had a sense that it might be about to describe something – and by the end of it, I think it had, but quite what and why I co

As you might expect, we’ve spent a lot of time lately reflecting on the closure of game studios. It’s easy to get caught up in recent examples, but two of this month’s previews have us looking back further: specifically to early 2021, when Sony annou

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It’s rare that companion characters from an RPG are embraced by the public as Lae’zel and Shadowheart have been. Did you have a sense that they would matter to people? Yes, but not this many people. I remember reading Shadowheart’s dialogue after she