Layoffs, spiralling budgets, increasing hardware costs: the game industry is broken. Can we fix it? In the new issue of Edge, out today, industry leaders including Tim Sweeney and Shawn Layden help us to identify what’s gone wrong, and we consider proposals for a better future.

Our new edition is out now, featuring the rip-snorting cinematic action of Blood Message. Here’s how it looks on the retail and subs covers of Edge 427. Inside, creative director Xingyan Gu tells us the story behind one of the most notable games from this year’s Summer Game Fest.

1666: Amsterdam's Noa Brooklyn is the cover star of Edge 426, with unique variations for retail and subscriber editions. Inside, we talk to Patrice Désilets and co at Panache Digital about witchery, cats, and shutting down a deal with the devil on the game’s long road to revival.

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy takes centre stage for the new edition of Edge, out now. Inside, we visit developer Asobo Studio to find out why it’s going back in time to 1333 – and what happened to all those rats. Here are issue 425’s retail and subscription-copy cover designs.

The new edition of Edge is out now. Inside, we talk to experts including researcher Dr Mike Cook about what the rise of generative AI means for the future of videogame production, encompassing topics such as LLM-powered characters and the prospect of ‘synthetic creativity’.

Ontos is the cover star of Edge 423, out today. Here are the design variants for retail and subscription copies. Inside, we meet with Frictional to find out how the biggest game in the studio’s history evokes flavours of Soma as part of an existential adventure on the Moon.

Here are the retail and exclusive subscription-edition covers of Edge 422, out now. Inside, we report from Remedy’s HQ, where we discover how everything is being turned on its head for Control Resonant, from new protagonist Dylan Faden to a unique reimagining of New York.