Articles by Edge Staff

"This game has a very special place in my heart": Eiji Aonuma on revisiting The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

By Edge Staff

Feature 25 years after its release, Eiji Aonuma explains why it’s the right time to revisit link’s weirdest adventure

Why Fire Emblem: Three Houses' five-year gap is its smartest storytelling decision

By Edge Staff

Feature Three Houses makes a persuasive case for more developers to consider using time skips

Minecraft Earth, the groundbreaking future of the biggest game in the world, stars in the new issue of Edge magazine

By Edge Staff

New Issue Edge goes behind the scenes with the groundbreaking augmented-reality reinvention of Mojang's juggernaut

"We knew that our default gun should be very distinctive": Remembering the Gears of War Lancer, a weapon as ludicrous as it was essential

By Edge Staff

Feature An ode to the Lancer, the iconic Gears gun designed to be "devastating from both a strategic and physiological standpoint"

Divinity: Fallen Heroes is a tactical RPG that blends the world of Divinity: Original Sin 2 with the action of XCOM

By Edge Staff

Feature Larian Studios' follow-up to Original Sin 2 aims to carve out a space between two established genres

Planet Zoo is using procedural animation to create the most realistic animals we have ever seen in a video game

By Edge Staff

Feature Planet Coaster makers Frontier Developments are making virtual creatures so detailed that they even breathe differently

Did the story in Days Gone suffer because it crashed up against the limitations of sandbox storytelling?

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Mortal Kombat 11 takes some small but crucial steps towards fixing the fighting-game tutorial

By Edge Staff

Feature As the battle moves increasingly online, tutorials in fighting games also need to evolve

Learn how Ubisoft built Watch Dogs Legion’s dystopian London in the new issue of Edge magazine

By Edge Staff

New Issue Edge Magazine #334 details how Ubisoft built a dystopian London where everyone is under your control

Eve: Aether Wars is a 10,000-player deathmatch destined to "explore the boundaries of human achievement on a large social scale"

By Edge Staff

Feature Eve: Online makers CCP Games and cloud-based OS startup Hadean's tech demo looks to the future of MMOs

Sekiro has players calling for an Easy mode – has FromSoftware finally gone too far this time?

By Edge Staff

Feature Miyazaki games have long had a sort of adjustable difficulty; they've just made you work for it

Ubisoft says its games aren’t political – but when viewed through a sniper scope, what isn’t?

By Edge Staff

Feature The Division 2 is the latest in a long line of the developer trying to have its cake and eat it too

An image of the Playdate handheld console made by Panic on the Edge Magazine cover

Playdate, a new handheld console backed by indie royalty, unveiled in new issue of Edge magazine

By Edge Staff

News Edge magazine has exclusive access to Playdate, the new handheld from Panic, that will host games from the creators of Katamari Damacy, Spelltower and QWOP

In Resident Evil 7, Monster Hunter World, and now Devil May Cry 5, Capcom has shown the benefits of staying true to your roots

By Edge Staff

Feature Capcom reborn: In praise of a publisher in new-found love with its past

Is using in-house tech in 2019 an asset or a problem for studios already feeling the burn of AAA development?

By Edge Staff

Feature What can we learn from Metro Exodus when looking towards the next generation of graphics and performance?

Sea of Thieves found its niche by leaving enough space for the imaginative to create something unique

By Edge Staff

Feature After a rocky year, Sea of Thieves is finally finding its rhythm

Phoenix Point and the 25-year-journey to create a spiritual sequel to legendary strategy game X-COM

By Edge Staff

Feature Strategy gaming legend Julian Gollop on the difficulties of uniting X-COM (1994) and XCOM (2012) fans who are funding his new turn-based game

Shadow of the Colossus is a cinematic masterpiece, but its true power could only come from a video game

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The making of Grand Theft Auto - From Race 'n' Chase to GTA

By Edge Staff

Feature In celebration of Grand Theft Auto's 20th anniversary, this making-of series explores the turbulent origins of the multi-million dollar franchise.