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LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM charms despite a fractured identity

HERIKA - THE CHATGPT COMPANION

Skyrim with a follower using OpenAl's chatbot.

UNWRITTEN RULES

An ode to the rites and rituals of online gamers.

QUANTUM PROCESSOR?

The 'first product of the quantum processing algorithm' was, in fact, not that

IRON CURTAIN

Retro-style shooter HROT is surprisingly whimsical for its grim looks

ANIMATED DISCUSSION

Sumo Digital's THOMAS CROFTS on the craft and importance of animation in games

BALDUR'S FATE

After more than two decades, the wait is finally over. BALDUR'S GATE III is here and, as Robert Jones discovers, it's changing the scope of what an CRPG can offer forever

Shadow of the colossusS

With E3 struck off the calendar left of the biggest week in videre's?

THE CASE GOLDEN OF THE IDOL

How two Latvian brothers, seeking to build a better tower defence, instead reimagined the whodunnit

Alternate Reality

Notes from videogaming’s borders

DISPATCHES SEPTEMBER

Dialogue Send your views, using 'Dialogue' as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com. Our letter of the month wins an exclusive Edge T-shirt

Vision quest

Apple finally reveals its XR hardware as Meta scrambles to hail the arrival of a revised Quest

TRIBAND GAMES

How the studio behind What The Golf? carved out a niche by defying expectations

ROGUE LEADER

As Ubisoft makes its big Star Wars debut, Massive makes the bold decision to go small

BBG Entertainment

Stephan Berendsen on reviving popular retro titles – including Intellivision classics – for PCs and consoles

THE MAKING OF Werewolves OF LONDON

RUN RAMPAGE ACROSS THE ROOFTOPS! GET SAVAGE IN THE SEWERS! HAVE A HAIRY FIT IN HYDE PARK! SPREAD TERROR IN THE TUBE STATIONS! IT MIGHT SOUND LIKE AN AVERAGE WEEKEND IN LONDON, BUT IT'S THE PREMISE FOR A TRUE CULT CLASSIC

THE HISTORY OF RAI DEN

THE RAIDEN GAMES HAVE LEFT A PROFOUND LEGACY IN THE SHOOTING GAME GENRE SINCE THE VERY FIRST DEBUTED IN 1990. IT’S A SERIES THAT HAS NEVER BEEN AFRAID TO CARVE ITS OWN PATH. AND IT ISN’T YET DONE

THE MAKING OF WORLD RALLY Championship

CRAFTED BY A SMALL TEAM IN SPAIN WITH A BACKGROUND IN 8-BIT PROGRAMMING, WORLD RALLY WAS AN INTERNATIONAL ARCADE SUCCESS. BUCKLE UP FOR THE RIDE AS CARLOS GRANADOS RECALLS THE HAIRPIN TWISTS AND TURNS THAT LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT FINISH LINE

Future Classic

Modern games you'll still be playing in years to come

INSIDE THE Nintendo ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM

FOR MANY PLAYERS, NINTENDO’S 8-BIT HARDWARE WAS THE DEFINING CONSOLE OF ITS GENERATION. WE SPEAK TO NES DEVELOPMENT VETERANS ABOUT DEVELOPING THE GAMES MILLIONS GREW UP WITH, AND FIND OUT HOW A NEW GENERATION OF CODERS DEVELOP FOR THE SYSTEM TODAY

THE LATEST NEWS FROM NOVEMBER 2006

NOVEMBER 2006 – It’s one of the biggest months ever, as the PlayStation 3 and Wii both hit store shelves for the first time and developers compete for the Christmas sales bonanza. Nick Thorpe is your time-traveling guide to all of the excitement

THE MAKING OF BIOFORGE

EVERYONE KNOWS ORIGIN SYSTEMS FOR ITS WING COMMANDERS AND ITS ULTIMAS BUT THE ONCE GLORIOUS GAMES COMPANY HAD MANY OTHER GREAT TITLES UP ITS SLEEVE, SOME OF WHICH HAVE BEEN LOST IN THE MISTS OF TIME. LIKE BIOFORGE FOR EXAMPLE...

THE MAKING OF Fantavision

WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING TO DAZZLE A CROWD, PUTTING ON A FIREWORKS DISPLAY IS A GOOD WAY TO DO IT - AND THAT'S EXACTLY HOW SONY CHOSE TO SHOW OFF THE POWER OF THE PS2. KATSUYUKI KANETAKA REVEALS HOW THE CULT CLASSIC PYROTECHNIC PUZZLE GAME WAS MADE

ULTIMATE GUIDE CHADS

SELECT YOUR SPELLS AND LET THE GODS DECIDE YOUR FATE IN THE FINEST MULTIPLAYER ZX SPECTRUM GAME OF ALL TIME. WELCOME TO CHAOS, THE MAGICAL BATTLE TO THE DEATH ON THE PLANE OF LIMBO

So I Tried... Marvel's SpiderMan: Miles Morales

Andrew played a Spider-Man

Hidden Gem: Haven Park

After I had the pleasure of playing and 100%ing A Short Hike, I've been fortunate to find some titles that bring back that same sense of relaxing adventure, where you explore a place that means a lot to the protagonist. The newest title to fit the bill is Haven Park - a charming game that surprisingly has only 463 reviews.

Street Fighter 6

Can you believe that the last mainline Street Fighter game was all the way back in 2016? Sure, Street Fighter V had numerous rereleases and an abundance of content added over the years, but it didn't have the strongest of starts.

Aquarist VR

In Aquarist VR, you'll be tasked with building up aquariums for people, and it all starts with a flashback from your childhood.

Dungeon Drafters

I have been playing a ton of deck-building games lately and have been having a blast with them, so when I saw Dungeon Drafters, I knew that I wanted to check it out. Unlike the traditional titles in this genre, Dungeon Drafters has you use your cards as magic in encounters instead of having a battle where both sides are tossing down their decks.

ArcRunner

ArcRunner is a roguelite third-person shooter developed by Trickjump Games and published by PQube. An A.I.-controlled space station known as the Arc has been infected by a meta-virus, causing it to go insane, turn all the robots hostile, and send all the inhabitants to reprocessing.