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Knowledge

8 Flock together

Videogame art festival A Maze

Total Digital celebrates connection

12 Toy town

Understanding the success

of non-game Townscaper

14 Ghost in the machine

Composition is key in musical

adventure Haunted Garage

18 Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized

mouthfuls, featuring Logic

20 This Month On Edge

The things that caught our eye

during the production of E 349

66 Subscriptions

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Dispatches

22 Dialogue

Edge readers share their opinions;

one wins an 8BitDo controller

24 Trigger Happy

Steven Poole on the importance of

powering up in the real world

26 Unreliable Narrator

Sam Barlow on telling narrative

stories on mobile devices

Features

54 Head Trip

Double Fine takes our brains to

another dimension in the

psychedelic Psychonauts 2

68 Outside The Box

With a huge lineup, Xbox sets out

a plan to redefine what a next-

gen gaming platform could be

78 The Making Of...

How award-winning adventure

A Short Hike took an

unconventional route to the top

82 Studio Profile

Futurlab on unlikely tie-ins, the

games that got away and living

up to its brilliant breakthrough

106 Time Extend

Reopening the investigation into

Rockstar’s extravagant, cinematic

ode to noir fiction, LA Noire

113 The Long Game

A progress report on the games

we can’t quit, featuring The Elder

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