Introducing Edge 238
Our February issue, featuring Far Cry 3, is out next week.
Devs celebrate Double Fine's Kickstarter success
Leading developers on what Double Fine Adventure means for the game industry's future.
Video Game News, Reviews & Gaming Jobs
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The power of crowd funding
The ins and outs of asking fans to foot development bills up front.
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Defining the modern indie game
Robin Hunicke, Jakub Dvorsky, Dino Patti and Brian Provinciano discuss the nature of indie games.
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This week's opportunities on Edge Jobs
Find your future translating Japanese for Nintendo, designing games for core x group, or supporting the UK's nuclear deterrent.
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Introducing Edge 238
Our February issue, featuring Far Cry 3, is out next week.
Opinion: Welcome to Amalur
From cellophane to opening cutscene, it's as if Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning doesn't seem to care about you playing it.
9The Friday Game: Dragon Quest
Chris Donlan picks over a dungeon-crawl that channels some unlikely influences.
Devs celebrate Double Fine's Kickstarter success
Leading developers on what Double Fine Adventure means for the game industry's future.
Opinion: Did Double Fine just kill the publisher?
Tim Schafer's studio has raised $400,000 to fund development of a game most publishers would have dismissed out of hand. Where do we go from here, asks Nathan Brown.
4Opinion: Bad lines
Clint Hocking explains why we should stop judging game dialogue by the standards of film.
9Out There: "Lazy" designers
It's a real problem that gamers don't understand how much work goes into making a quality game, plus Blizzard's political correctness gone soft.
1Haunt review
NanaOn-Sha's Kinect ghost story is reliable but unremarkable.
Square Enix announces Sleeping Dogs
True Crime: Hong Kong renamed, with publisher's London studio assisting United Front Games with development.
Defining the modern indie game
Robin Hunicke, Jakub Dvorsky, Dino Patti and Brian Provinciano discuss the nature of indie games.
1The Darkness II review
The visceral horror shooter returns with a greater focus on action.
3Triple Town review
Spry Fox’s inspirational match-three puzzler loses little in the transition to smartphones.
Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning review
An attempt to streamline the RPG leaves too little meat on its user-friendly bones.
Solitaire Blitz preview
We play PopCap's new dopamine-fuelled one-minute score challenge.
Flipper 2: Flush The Goldfish review
The goldfish is back, but the voxels are gone.
This week's opportunities on Edge Jobs
Find your future translating Japanese for Nintendo, designing games for core x group, or supporting the UK's nuclear deterrent.
Opinion: Dude, where's my virtual hat?
Jas Purewal considers the question for the modern age: if you buy a virtual hat, who owns it?
1At the conference unlike any other
London's indie devs gather for Bit Of Alright, a chaotic celebration of the local scene.
Ngmoco: rising budgets will kill cloning
GM Ben Cousins says recent spate of clones is "a blip" that will be eradicated as production values increase.
4Out There: Is dumbing down ruining videogames?
Are overbearing tutorials and handholding destroying the magic? Plus playing fever dreams and shooting Skyrim.
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