Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Latest articles by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

AAA – Developers discuss the three little letters that have shaped an industry: "It's a stupid term. It's meaningless"
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Features Feature | Edge talks to developers to unpack the baggage around the blockbuster marketing term

Witches, physicists, Tarot readers, game designers, and amateur botanists weigh in on how magic is portrayed in video games
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Interview Interview | Play Magazine talks magic with the professionals to see what it means to them, in real life and in game systems

Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl's brutal wasteland has grown more thrilling with age
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Opinion Opinion | A classic that gets better, and more terrifying, with time

You can pet the animals in After Us, but can you save them?
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Features Hands-on impressions of Piccolo’s vast, vivid and powerfully conflicted ecological action game

The rise, fall, and curious afterlife of splitscreen multiplayer
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Features Charting the winding path of one of video games' most familiar yet unusual features

From Wordsworth to GTA 5: Exploring the unexpected intersections between video games and poetry
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, Edge Staff published
Features This might surprise you, but poetry and video games have inadvertently crossed paths over time

"Still the best opening of all time": Developers look back on Gears of War, the shooter that kickstarted a bold, new era of console gaming
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Features Looking back on the game that started it all

"It’s ingrained in humanity to be scared" – How games are challenging the taboos of disability and mental health
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Features From intimate indie stories, to AAA blockbusters, disability is a fact of life that games are now addressing from all kinds of angles

Whatever form Dragon Age 4 takes, it would do well to build from the epic, extravagant (and slightly unwieldy) Inquisition
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Features

The 25 greatest Star Wars moments in Xbox history
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Best List

How Gears of War changed the multiplayer game - and where it could go next
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Features

Project: Knoxville turns The Hunger Games into, well, a game
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Preview

Star Wars: First Assault - The Battlefront 3 that almost was
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Features

Why DICE is mad to cut the prequel era from Star Wars: Battlefront
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Editorial
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