Jen Simpkins

Jen Simpkins

Jen Simpkins is the former Editor of Edge magazine, and is a multi-award-winning creative writer. In her most recent industry role, Jen lent her immense talents to Media Molecule, serving as editorial manager and helping to hype up the indie devs using Dreams as a platform to create magical new experiences.

Latest articles by Jen Simpkins

Seaman
25 years ago, Dreamcast's strangest life sim stared into our souls – and then into the future

By Jen Simpkins Published

Interview Opinion | Edge magazine remembers Seaman, a weird and wonderful simulation game from last century

Interview
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First Look: Hytale is putting adventure and creativity at the heart of its ambitious block-building sandbox

By Jen Simpkins Published

Features Edge Magazine goes behind-the-scenes with Hypixel Studios, the developer behind the hugely anticipated Hytale

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"We're such perfectionists": Overwatch assistant director Aaron Keller on what makes Blizzard tick

By Jen Simpkins Published

Features Blizzard's assistant director on Warcraft, working lunches and Overwatch’s baby steps

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The 20 best indie games you might have missed in 2019

By Jen Simpkins Published

Features Small in scale, but big in ambition, these 20 games represent some of the best experiences of the year

Features
An image of the Playdate console
Playdate: how the publishers of Untitled Goose Game built a console designed to spark pure joy

By Jen Simpkins Published

Features Created with care, for people who love videogames, Panic’s dinky handheld is the console no-one saw coming

Features
Spiritfarer
Spiritfarer is a cutesy death sim that plays like a cross between Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing

By Jen Simpkins Published

Preview Hands-on with Spiritfarer, a cute management sim about ushering the living off to the land of the dead

Preview
Victoria and Albert museum's Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt
How a team of curators and designers at the V&A successfully built a video game exhibition that practises what it preaches

By Jen Simpkins Published

Features How Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt overcame the challenge of communicating what video games are in a physical space

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Life is Strange is that rare, wonderful thing: A choice-based video game in which you are not the centre of the universe

By Jen Simpkins Published

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“We’re going to Titan, there’s 40-foot methane ocean waves” - Destiny 2’s art director reveals the visual secrets of those new planets

By Jen Simpkins Published

Interview

Interview
Little Nightmares
Trial-and-error doesn’t always have to be a dirty word. (Er, words?)

By Jen Simpkins Published

Opinion

Opinion
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How Housemarque’s Nex Machina is rocketing arcade shooters back to the top on PS4

By Jen Simpkins Published

Interview

Interview
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Asking players to fill in the blanks isn’t laziness on the part of devs - it can be a mechanic in its own right

By Jen Simpkins Published

Opinion

Opinion
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Clumsy Cutie, Fighting President, and Lobster Hands - meet Street Fighter 5's culled warriors

By Jen Simpkins Published

Features

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Overwatch's publicity stunt was a total hack job - the fans have every right to feel sobered by Sombra

By Jen Simpkins Published

Opinion

Opinion
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Forget about the games - PlayStation VR is set to hack my entire life, and I couldn’t be happier

By Jen Simpkins Published

Opinion

Opinion
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PlayStation VR is shaking up the multiplayer format so hard that it’s now delightfully wonky

By Jen Simpkins Published

Opinion

Opinion
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Rolling up entire planets to avoid disappointing our wacky space dad - why We Love Katamari

By Jen Simpkins Published

Features

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I want a little bit of everything - sign me up for a PlayStation VR subscription service

By Jen Simpkins Published

Opinion

Opinion
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Respawn tell us how they finally brought Titanfall’s revolutionary shooter systems to PlayStation

By Jen Simpkins Published

Interview

Interview
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David Cage believes Ex Machina was "inspired by Kara"

By Jen Simpkins Published

Interview

Interview
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We need a PS Vita successor - why PlayStation’s past proves handhelds can be essential

By Jen Simpkins Published

Opinion

Opinion
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Joining the devs to explore the ever-expanding worlds of retro-inspired platformer Yooka-Laylee

By Jen Simpkins Published

Features

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The nine biggest cliffhangers in PlayStation history

By Jen Simpkins Published

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Get rid of mini-maps, and set your PS4 gaming worlds free

By Jen Simpkins Published

Opinion

Opinion
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