In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Edge (UK)

• Shifting foundations
  Game engines are the bedrock on which the game industry is constructed. What happens when cracks emerge?
• Mixed results
  Meta Quest 3 gives MR a platform on which to shine – but what can it offer to games?
• DISPATCHES JANUARY
  Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’ as the subject line, to edge@futurenet.com. Our letter of the month wins an exclusive Edge T-shirt
• DISPATCHES CHRISTMAS
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• WOMB WITH A VIEW
  El Huer vo takes us aboard Ultros’s ‘cosmic uterus’ to discuss the art of cultivating a more constructive variety of Metroidvania
• COLLECTED WORKS KEIICHIRO TOYAMA
  The creator of Silent Hill looks back on a long, horrifying career – and ahead to his big return to the genre
• COLLECTED WORKS MASAYA MATSUURA
  A lesson from teacher: PaRappa’s creator looks back on his transformative time in games
• THE MAKING OF . . . PENTIMENT
  How a palimpsest of ideas evolved into a singular work of art
• DECONSTRUCTEAM
  Jams, overdrafts and finding a voice: how a difficult decade turned into magic
• A link between worlds
  As true section-intro connoisseurs will be aware, we often use this page to try to locate a common thread among the issue’s selection of review games. With Remedy’s Alan Wake 2 in mind, we could perhaps discuss the nature of shared or connected universes – a potential jumping-off point to discuss Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III and Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, with The Invincible also teasing the tantalising notion of the Stanislaw Lem Expanded Universe. Or perhaps we could focus instead on metatextuality (though in calling attention to this process, we’re sort of doing that already).
• Post Script
  Does Alan Wake 2 make a case for the connected universe in videogames?
• Post Script
  To get COD out of this mess, Activision should listen to its own advice
• WarioWare: Move It!
  Several firstparty Switch games advise using the wrist strap, but here it’s a necessity: some games require you to let go of the controllers, such as when dropping a fishing line into an ice hole, yanking it out when you get a nibble
• Prey
  Arkane’s sci-fi immersive sim was a shock to the system, for players and its developer alike
• THE LONG GAME
  A progress report on the games we just can’t quit