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Welcome

It’s underpinned PlayStation since the 1990s and has

Outriders shoots back to the top

A recent demo, six months of extra development time… Outriders impresses

Taylor- made news

Oscar Taylor- Kent’s news slap

Prize Dreams

Media Molecule announces Impys winners

Moving on up

Free PS5 upgrades give PS4 games a second lease of life

Dancing onto PlayStation

Helen Hindpere talks to us about bringing ZA/UM’s detective RPG Disco Elysium to PS5 and PS4

Rolling towards an esports future

Roller Champions is an online slam dunk

Live-action videogame projects are levelling up

The Last Of Us and Borderlands boast big names

GEAR: STUFF WE LOVE

This issue, Mondo guilty pleasures

A Play Station treasure

Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider’s 25th anniversary will be marked by a year of celebratory events

Are games becoming too expensive?

Are we being ripped off or paying the price of costly development? Our team voice their opinions

Hospitals

These PlayStation games know how to treat you in the emergency room

“INDIE GAMES ARE IMPORTANT TO THE NEXT GENERATION”

Indie games are about to take over the new PlayStation generation

“PLAYSTATION 5 HAS A LOT OF POWER – BUT WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO USE IT?”

Simply opting for better graphics isn’t always the best path forward

MS MORE

I like to see your magazine contain more

READERS’ MOST WANTED

Which games are bleeping on your radar?

Hot Shots

We’re celebrating your very best PlayStation photo mode moments

Winner

Paolo Mantoan Game: Cyberpunk 2077

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

1 2 3 1 Finn Dobney Game: Control

Mass Effect Legendary Edition

Drell into the details of this remastered series with project director Mac Walters

Roguebook

Does Magic: The Gathering’s creator play his cards right?

King Arthur: Knights Tale

Round table, square tiles

Guilty Gear Strive

Hands-on with Arc’s dojo of the future

Balan Wonderworld

Hands-on with Nights Into Dreams’ spiritual successor

Nour: Play With Your Food

So mouth-watering, you’ll want a pizza this

The King Of Fighters XV

This brawler is electric

The Elder Scrolls Online: Blackwood

Reopening the gates of Oblivion

Judgment

“60FPS ENSURES THOSE MARTIAL ARTS MOVES HIT YOUR

The Final Countdown

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker takes players to the moon – and to PS5. We talk with Naoki Yoshida about the future of the console exclusive MMO

SWEET XVI

Alan Wen breaks down the ten things you need to know about Final Fantasy XVI, the long-running RPG series’ next instalment at its most radical

Finally ranking the Fantasies

We consider every entry in the JRPG series to determine which are the ones you absolutely shouldn’t miss on PlayStation

Little Nightmares II

A sleepy puzzle platformer to doze through? Dream on!

Fallen Legion Revenants

Fallen at the first hurdle

Curse Of The Dead Gods

The Dead Gods are watching

Can Androids Pray: Blue

Mechs, no violence

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox

It’s a Monstrum knock-out!

The Nioh Collection

Sitting atop a throne of blood made for two

Silver Chains

Doesn’t even win bronze

Puss!

On a psychedelic tin roof

Turrican Flashback Collection

Don’t shoot back in anger

Persona 5 Strikers

On a jailbreak roadtrip all across Japan

Control Ultimate Edition

A new weird tale that demands a fresh perspective

The Pedestrian

Much more than middle of the road

TOP FIVE ONLINE GAMES

Team up with pals or take on the world

Destruction AllStars

Knocking the scrap out of people online

MXGP 2020

Shouting into the muddy online void

Dying Light – Viking: Raiders Of Harran

Zombie killing? You have my axe!

Begin the Initiation Protocol

Hitman 3’s updates challenge Agent 47

LIVE GAMES

Online games still keeping our attention

PS5 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

THE GAMES GLOW UP

PlayStation 4 hits replayed on PlayStation 5

PS4 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE LAST GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

PS VR Hall of fame

THE VIRTUAL REALITY HITS YOU HAVE TO PLAY

Silent Hill 2

It’s a nice quiet neighbourhood, except for the screams

FIND THE TIME

Dipping back even further into gaming’s past. Can you remember this? Do you even want to remember it?

Five years ago in OPM

We took an early step into Kickstarted space explorathon No Man’s Sky in OPM #121

Albert Wesker

Luke Kemp thinks Resident Evil’s best-known baddie is just misunderstood. A bit…

RESIDENT EVIL’S BEST MOMENTS

Justin Towell steps back into the Resident Evil series – where he’d just begun to feel safe

Retro shooters

Three to play for free on PlayStation Now. These hot shots are on target

Ridge Racer

Expand your knowledge beyond the meme

It’s stuck in our head

With bombs to disarm and a city to save, it’s easy to get distracted by a song in Batman: Arkham Knight