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POD: PLANET OF DEATH
Ubisoft’s racer faces a second apocalypse.
FOR THE ORDER
Go out without a limb in CHIVALRY II’s glorious medieval battles
SHOCK & AWE
COMPANY OF HEROES 3 is coming to wake up the RTS genre.
LEGO ISLANDS
LEGO BUILDER’S JOURNEY captures the joy of those little plastic bricks
CRUSADER KINKS PART 1
Spreading the love throughout Paradox’s medieval soap opera, Crusader Kings III
POWER SUPPLY UNITS
What’s the best PSU for PC gaming?
Unreliable Narrator
Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales
ELDEN RING
When we heard, around the time of its announcement, that Elden Ring was going to be essentially “open-world Dark Souls”, we weren’t entirely confident in the summary. Because isn’t that precisely what Dark Souls fans would ask for? And when did get fans get what they want? (And, in the rare cases that it happens, when have the results stood up to close scrutiny?) And yet here we are looking forward to one of 2022’s biggest games delivering pretty much everything Dark Souls devotees yearn for: screen-filling bosses, endlessly rewarding character builds, secrets by the sackful – plus magic, multiplayer and a whole lot more besides.
STARFIELD
Perhaps the two most important words of Microsoft’s showcase came just a few minutes in, at the end of a teaser for Bethesda’s next open-world epic: ‘Xbox exclusive’. It wasn’t the only time we would see them, but this was the moment it became crystal clear that Microsoft would never have spent $7.5bn on the studio behind Skyrim and Fallout if it didn’t plan to keep at least some of its output to itself.
Trigger Happy
Shoot first, ask questions later
REDFALL
Which is fortunate, because learning that this team is working on an open-world co-op shooter with vampires is frankly disappointing. There was no shortage of Left-4-Dead-alike at this year’s show and, at first glance, it doesn’t seem like a structure that plays to Arkane’s strengths. But then we consider that the Austin team’s previous project was Mooncrash, a Prey expansion that pushed the immersive sim into Roguelike territory – not to mention Deathloop’s exciting experiments with multiplayer – and Redfall makes sense as an evolution of this lineage, rather than simply a comfortable repetition.
SECRET WEAPON
Could Naraka: Bladepoint be the surprise challenger to break the battle royale stalemate?
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD 2
As Nintendo’s own press site calls it, Sequel To The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild cannot have its official title unveiled just yet, because it might give too much away – a clue to something significant about this much-anticipated successor.
COLLECTED WORKS GLEN SCHOFIELD
The artist-turned-producer reflects on 30 years with very little dead space
DISPATCHES Dialogue
Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’ as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com. Our letter of the month wins a 12-month Xbox Game Pass Ultimate membership
ARTISAN CRAFTS
Has wood ever been this good?
NetEase Connect 2021 Summary
Andrew tells us what happened at NetEase Connect 2021
The End of Four-Player Co-op?
Richard looks at the recent trend of three player co-op
Am I Done With Souls?: A Souls Retrospective
Gorzagorz looks back at his time with the Souls series
Resident Evil Series Ranked by Metascore Part 2
Adam finishes ranking the Resident Evil games
Halo Doesn't Need A Battle Royale
Dylan has some thoughts about the community's wishes
PDXCON 2021 Overview
James tells us what happened at PDXCon 2021
Metro Exodus Diaries Part One
Andrew begins the latest Metro game
A Story Not Worth Telling
Dylan discusses representation in videogames
Is Monster Hunter Becoming Too Easy?
Dylan believes hunting monsters has never been easier
The New Skate Series: What We Want to See Next
Danielle talks about her dreams for the Skate series
KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS
A chat with Ember Lab will get you keen for Kena
HORIZON FORBIDDEN WEST
Aloy goes west
Punching bag
Yakuza Kiwami’s bro-turned-foe decides enough is enough in this brooding flashback sequence
AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA
Got the blues? Escape to Pandora