Jon Bailes

Here's one more Edge for 2025, with a deep dive into Romeo Is A Dead Man, a load of Awards and an interview with the whole core team at Sandfall on the success of their game. Plus in-depth reviews of Metroid Prime 4, Routine and more.
Taking a break from making the next one now. Merry Christmas.

There's pretty much no jumping of consequence in this at all. Very few moments where you have to figure out how to get up there. A lot of walking and scanning, though.

Save 15% on Tingus Goose on Steam Tingus Goose is a delightfully absurd idle game where you plant seeds in patients, bounce babies for profit, and ascend through surreal worlds toward riches.

Quite a lot of games coming out this week. I think this may be the mightiest: store.steampowered.com/app/3629780/...

I can offer some suggestions: Lumines, Clair Obscur, Hades 2, South of Midnight, Silksong, Absolum, Death Stranding 2. (You could probably make a playlist from Lumines alone.)

Of course not. We're too busy spending our bribes from the publisher.

My first issue as deputy editor. There's a big roundup of 100 games to watch from SGF and related events, leading up to our cover feature on Pragmata. Plus a feature on open-world games, reviews of Death Stranding 2, Mario Kart World, Mindseye and more.

New Edge - and a great big feature on Big Walk.

Job change - I'm now deputy editor at Edge. As before, I'm dealing mainly with the reviews and previews sections, but now with a few extra bits on top.

The latest Edge with this fantastic cover marking an in-depth feature on Death Stranding 2.

In Edge 410, published today, we visit Bloober Team’s HQ for exclusive hands-on access to Cronos: The New Dawn, and discover how this mysterious, time-hopping survival horror blends unique weaponry and creature concepts with influences ranging from Dead Space to 12 Monkeys.

Conversely, I thought the whole thing could do with some major editing. While there are constant mechanical shifts, they're often quite superficial, and /the way in which/ you're asked to collaborate hardly changes in the main levels.

We made another Edge, this one with some expansive Doom art on the cover, and an equally beefy feature inside.
Other stuff includes previews of AC: Shadows and Commandos: Origins, features about game secrets, Warframe, Croteam and the Making of Arco, and reviews of KCDII, Avowed and Civ VII.

Great to see a surge in funding in the last day or so on this. It looks like there's a chance it could reach its goal.
If you haven't got round to backing it yet, maybe now's the time.

If you ask yourself why the Genocide is happening?
Because we are not allowed to tell our Story.

The total raised has gone down, right? I'm assuming someone pulled out due to 'pressure'.

Dreams On A Pillow is a game about the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the creator of Liyla And The Shadows Of War Palestinian developer Rasheed Abueideh has announced Dreams On A Pillow, a mixture of stealth-adventure and interactive…

RPS ran a story:
www.rockpapershotgun.com/dreams-on-a-...

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

✌🏼 We’ve hit 1/3 of our goal!🍉
To all our supporters, Heartfelt thanks ❤️

We ask for your generosity in the next 24 hours this Giving Tuesday as we compete to win $25,000

👉 Make another contribution, any amount helps!
👉 Share the campaign with friends & family.

launchgood.com/1948

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

The Palestinian-made game Dreams on a Pillow is 413 dollars and 13 backers short of respectively 60K raised and 1,000 supporters. Who wants to help push it over towards those milestones?

launchgood.com/1948

Video game concept art showing a Palestinian woman holding a pillow, next to the game's title 'Dreams on a Pillow'.

Today, Rasheed and his team are announcing Dreams on a Pillow and are looking to crowdfund its development.

Let's show them how much we all have their back:

www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

The cover of the new Edge magazine, featuring Reanimal, and the free calendar that come with the issue

We made another Edge. Issue 405 dives deep into Reanimal, considers 20 years of World of Warcraft and explores the making of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. There are previews of Civ VII, Herdling and Skate Story. And you get a fine calendar featuring images from the 30-year history of PlayStation.

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba.

I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share!
🔗 launchgood.com/1948

Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

If you see this post, please back this game, and please share this campaign as widely as possible.
www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

General info post to start off:
I'm Games Editor at Edge magazine, which means I plan reviews and previews.
Publishers/PR/freelancers - get in touch about either at: jon dot bailes at futurenet dot com