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First, we hope you and yours are keeping well. The Edge team, currently at least, is in fine health. But in these trying times, our publisher has reacted as you’d expect: first we were told we’d have to cut our pagination for this issue, then that we

Developer Skip Ltd Publisher Nintendo Format GameCube, Wii Release 2005 At first, Skip’s domestic adventure might not seem much of an escape. Behind the bright 1960s stylings, the Sanderson household is a portrait of dysfunction: daughter Jenny is a

Developer/publisher Nintendo (EAD) Format GameCube Release 2004 In assembling this issue we have tried, as a rule, to avoid games that are primarily defined by their violence. Sometimes, though, when times are hard, you just want to hit something. Th

Developer Inis Publisher Koei Format PS2 Release 2001 Sometimes it feels as if a game has been made just for you. Much of the discussion around Gitaroo Man at launch focused on its fourth stage, in which protagonist U-1 must escape from the clutches

Developer Smilebit Publisher Sega Format 360, Dreamcast, GBA, PC, PS3, Vita Release 2000 There are very few games that we would recommend on their soundtrack alone, but Jet Set Radio is one of them. Seamlessly blending J-pop, hip-hop, funk, soul, roc

Developer/publisher Nintendo (SPD) Format 3DS Release 2015 Trust Nintendo to distil the rhythm-action game – the videogame itself, even – to its purest form. Many of Megamix’s best minigames require nothing more than a single button: your job is to p

Developer/publisher Nintendo (EAD) Format Wii U Release 2013 Mario was always going to be here, of course: no other videogame hero sounds like they’re having quite such a good time. Indeed, we’d argue that Charles Martinet’s gleeful whoops are an int