Welcome

Turning The Last Of Us into a TV hit

We ask cast and crew what it’s like to adapt a PlayStation classic

Dial H for Hero

PlayStation calls, signing two China Hero Project games ahead of phase three

Hunker down for unscripted horror

Amnesia: The Bunker offers no shelter

You havin’a laugh?

Creative Assembly’s Christoph Will explains how irreverence drives the design of Hyenas’ team-based shooting and looting

Adrift no more

Revelling in the bizarre, Death Stranding 2 takes Sam on a new journey

Firing up the machines

FromSoftware’s Armored Core VI teases a touch of Souls

505 takes co-Control

Remedy and 505 Games team up to develop Control 2

“GAMES NEED TO CALM THE HINTS DOWN AND LET ME FIGURE THINGS OUT.”

In-game tips are there to help, but risk taking me out of the experience

What do we want from PlayStation in 2023?

PS5’s just celebrated its second birthday – here’s how we hope PlayStation will level up over the next year

“WHY AM I SO RELUCTANT TO STRAY FROM THE GOLDEN PATH AND EMBRACE CHAOS?”

Knowing there’s an optimal route to the end can undermine the journey

Anthro’ animals

Get ready for anthropomorphic animals who, once met, you’ll never forget

Atelier Ryza 3: Alchemist Of The End & The Secret Key

The sun sets on a final summer of adventure

Mask Of The Rose

Finding love in the strangest of places

Dredge

You might need a bigger boat for this mystery

Labyrinth Of Galleria: The Moon Society

Plumbing the depths for mystery, magic, and more

Company Of Heroes 3

A new era of PlayStation RTSs dawns

Tekken 8

An aggressive runback

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores

New DLC has zero chill

Forspoken

Get your skates on – aworld of adventure awaits in Athia

Blast from the past

Masayoshi Yokoyama talks to Alicia Haddick about taking Yakuza back to the past in Like A Dragon: Ishin!

PLAY GAME OF THE YEAR 2022

The past year has been a truly special one for PlayStation. With so many great games from first-party studios and genre-pushing leaps from third-party developers there’s been something to amaze everyone. We asked you for your favourites – and now here are 2022’s Games Of The Year, as ranked by you and all of PLAY’s readers!

Marvel’s Midnight Suns

Putting the you in team

Need For Speed Unbound

Criterion shows how it’s done on PS5 with a current-gen NFS

The Callisto Protocol

The scariest thing is the dialogue

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion

SOLDIER boy tell ’em

Sable

Glider’s high

Sky: Children Of The Light

Too close to the sun

THREE TO PLAY

PSN games you might have missed

PS5 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

PLAY ON

Know what you like and looking for more? Here are more to enjoy on your PS5

PS4 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE LAST GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

DASH’S DAZZLING DEALS

Watching the pennies? We’ll help you play more without breaking the bank

PSVR Hall of fame

THE VIRTUAL REALITY HITS YOU HAVE TO PLAY

WHAT’S NEW PLUS-SY CAT?

Digging into the random acts of gaming a lengthy PS Plus subscription offers

Ryu Ga Gotoku Kenzan!

Spinning off with samurai in this Yakuza import exclusive

DON’T DELETE

Save icons for these January moments spin in the PLAY hive mind. Do you remember this?

Burnout Paradise

Fifteen years of being taken down to Paradise City

Desmond Miles

Oscar Taylor-Kent sticks up for the modern-day star of Assassin’s Creed’s first saga

DEMO LIST’S ON, MAN

Luke Kemp explores some of PlayStation’s most memorable demos, and what made them special

Kingdom Hearts II

Does this sequel rebottle the magic or just make a big mess?

Resident Evil

Open your Umbrella… it’s about to get bloody

Home discomforts

Project Zero: Maiden Of Black Water reveals the scariest haunted house is your own