The cast of characters in Bleeding Edge.
The cast of characters in Bleeding Edge.
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Bleeding Edge hands-on — A team brawler where you learn by dying

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Playing Ninja Theory’s Bleeding Edge made me think about the famous quote from U.S. Army General George Patton: “No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”

But in Bleeding Edge’s 4-versus-4 multiplayer team combat, you die a lot. Then you learn who killed you with what, and then you go back into the fray to die again. Eventually, you may start to catch on about how to make the other bastards die. But you have a lot of enemies to learn, and they have many ways to put you down.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.