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Doom: The Dark Ages' new cutscenes exist because of fans' unlikely obsession with the series' lore: "A Doom game that doesn’t have a story is just an arcade game”

By Scott McCrae published 6 March 25

“In so many interviews, we sit down with somebody and their first question is about the story”

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Oscars 2025 live coverage: All the winners, red carpet, and the 97th Academy Awards' biggest moments – as it happens

By Bradley Russell last updated 3 March 25

News Join us live for the biggest movie night of the year

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As if hell and demons weren't enough, Doom: The Dark Ages went medieval so id Software "could get more dark and sinister with the tool kit"

By Kaan Serin published 21 February 25

News "You think torture devices, ropes, and chains, and spikes"

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Doom: The Dark Ages features "the largest spaces we've ever made,” but id Software knows you don't want to spend 2 hours in a single level

By Iain Harris published 20 February 25

News Game director Hugo Martin says each level aims for that "sweet spot" of one hour to complete

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Doom: The Dark Ages devs looked to everything from Star Wars to Batman Year One to shape the iconic shooter's next game

By Iain Harris published 20 February 25

News "You follow the IP development rulebook that was created by a lot of great people"

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Legendary Zelda dev "wasn't too pleased" about working on A Link to the Past as it robbed his enjoyment of playing the finished game: "I still really don't want to play that game"

By Iain Harris published 1 February 25

News Don't ask former Nintendo artist Takaya Imamura about A Link to the Past

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With Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Chinese studio Leenzee aims to soar to the heights of its field

By Alan Wen published 27 January 25

Feature Interview | Set in the Ming Dynasty, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers brings a unique feathery twist to soulslike action RPGs

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Goal Oriented: How do developers invent their own sports – even when they're not too fond of the real thing?

By Alex Spencer published 3 January 25

Feature Feature | "What I've realised is that any turn-based strategy game, like a Fire Emblem or XCOM, those are basically sports games"

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BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography

By Jeremy Peel published 3 January 25

Feature Edge: The Collected Works | From immersive-sim innovation, through undersea peril, and onto new beginnings back out in space, Ken Levine talks through his impressive and iconic gaming portfolio in his own words

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The Making of Baldur's Gate 3: "We really wanted to make it so that even if you don't know D&D or Baldur's Gate, you would still have exciting choices as a player"

By Jeremy Peel published 2 January 25

Feature Feature | Edge Magazine: Larian fought with cinematics, embassies and the expectations of BioWare fans to make the RPG of the decade

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AAA – Developers discuss the three little letters that have shaped an industry: "It's a stupid term. It's meaningless"

By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published 2 January 25

Feature Feature | Edge talks to developers to unpack the baggage around the blockbuster marketing term

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The Making of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: "I thought: if we just reproduce the original game with no changes, it will feel nostalgic, but not exciting"

By Simon Parkin published 1 January 25

Feature Feature | Edge Magazine: Remaking an iconic game was daunting enough – then the developers faced the difficult second entry.

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World of Warcraft director says last year's Hardcore release was a better version of classic WoW than WoW Classic was

By Alex Raisbeck published 22 December 24

News "It wasn't just being on that journey alone, it was like this group of players versus the world"

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Civ 5 caused a commotion at a space agency its creative director used to work at

By Alex Raisbeck published 21 December 24

News "There was a roar across the building"

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WoW veteran says the MMO's devs had to make "ten times the amount of quests" as originally planned to sate playtesters, and now the game has 38,000 of them

By Alex Raisbeck published 7 December 24

News "The answer, of course, was to simply add more."

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OG FF7 director says thanks to the remake "half of Final Fantasy 7 [...] is now owned by the fans"

By Alex Raisbeck published 7 December 24

News "It belongs to them as well as us"

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Final Fantasy 7 Remake director had to swap his inspirations from The Last of Us to The Witcher 3 to make Rebirth's open world

By Kaan Serin published 7 December 24

News Director Naoki Hamaguchi played CD Projekt Red's beloved open-world game to learn a few lessons

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Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's director says he rejects the idea of design by committee: "If there are too many people inputting, [...] the work can easily lose its character."

By Alex Raisbeck last updated 2 December 24

News "I am a strong believe in the idea that too many cooks spoil the broth"

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Civ 7 director thought the new Ages system might not work, but says it does fix the "number-one issue" - players not getting to the end of their games

By Alex Raisbeck published 1 December 24

News "I'm getting so many more reports of people playing all the way to finishing a game"

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Obsidian's Josh Sawyer thought Pillars of Eternity's Kickstarter had a 50% chance of failing, only for the RPG to be fully funded within 27 hours

By Kaan Serin published 30 November 24

News "Other people at the studio were also like 'are we really not going to do this?'"

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