Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Latest articles by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
Witches, physicists, Tarot readers, game designers, and amateur botanists weigh in on how magic is portrayed in video games
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Interview Interview | Play Magazine talks magic with the professionals to see what it means to them, in real life and in game systems
Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl's brutal wasteland has grown more thrilling with age
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Opinion Opinion | A classic that gets better, and more terrifying, with time
You can pet the animals in After Us, but can you save them?
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
FEATURE Hands-on impressions of Piccolo’s vast, vivid and powerfully conflicted ecological action game
The rise, fall, and curious afterlife of splitscreen multiplayer
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
FEATURE Charting the winding path of one of video games' most familiar yet unusual features
From Wordsworth to GTA 5: Exploring the unexpected intersections between video games and poetry
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, Edge Staff published
Feature This might surprise you, but poetry and video games have inadvertently crossed paths over time
"Still the best opening of all time": Developers look back on Gears of War, the shooter that kickstarted a bold, new era of console gaming
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Feature Looking back on the game that started it all
"It’s ingrained in humanity to be scared" – How games are challenging the taboos of disability and mental health
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Feature From intimate indie stories, to AAA blockbusters, disability is a fact of life that games are now addressing from all kinds of angles
Whatever form Dragon Age 4 takes, it would do well to build from the epic, extravagant (and slightly unwieldy) Inquisition
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Feature
The 25 greatest Star Wars moments in Xbox history
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Best List
How Gears of War changed the multiplayer game - and where it could go next
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Feature
Project: Knoxville turns The Hunger Games into, well, a game
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Preview
Star Wars: First Assault - The Battlefront 3 that almost was
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Feature
Why DICE is mad to cut the prequel era from Star Wars: Battlefront
By Edwin Evans-Thirlwell published
Editorial
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