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Welcome

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Getting you closer to PlayStation’s most exciting stories, people, and culture

Gold rush

Returnal and Ratchet & Clank enjoy big wins at the BAFTA Games Awards

To new heights

Unreal Engine 5 out now; new Tomb Raider will be developed with it

Block by block

Mohammad Fahmi told us how Afterlove EP explores love, loss, and music in the heart of Indonesia

GEAR: STUFF WE LOVE

This month, spin up some bangers

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Gunpowder plot

Flintlock: The Siege Of Dawn blasting onto PS5 and PS4 later this year

What do we want to see from the new Witcher?

CD Projekt Red’s latest announcement offers a few clues but what’s on Team PLAY’s Witcher wishlist?

“BIG PROJECTS REQUIRE SOME SIMPLIFICATION, BUT PLOT SHOULDN’T SUFFER.”

There isn’t one right way to do narrative, but plenty are wrong

“PS5’S SPARTAN UI IS CLEAN, BUT I’D LIKE A LITTLE MORE PERSONALITY.”

Where have all the vibrant dashboard themes gone?

Art

Take a tour through a gallery of gorgeous games shaped by artistic styles

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Hogwarts Legacy

What you go to school for

Time On Frog Island

Get to know the croaky locals

Unpacking

Unload your emotional baggage with this zen puzzler

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong

A detective story with teeth

Eternal Threads

Playing with fire

Soundfall

Get the band together

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R

Anime fighter gets another shot

Two Point Campus

Got a yearning for learning?

Dusk Diver 2

i FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA SUMMER /

Set sail for new shores

Creative director Rich Lambert talks with Oscar Taylor-Kent about crafting an unexplored corner of Tamriel for The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle

The Elder Scrolls study guide

The Elder Scrolls Online not for you? Perhaps it’s not quite what you think. Here are ten things that prove it’s worth a chance

Never quite as it seems

Dreams is creating an army of new indie developers. Luke Kemp speaks to some of them to discover how the software is bringing their imaginations to life

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Well Wookiee here – something Wicket this way comes

Moss: Book II

Proving PSVR is still small but mighty

Vengeful Heart

Blunt not the heart, enrage it

Anno: Mutationem

The metropolis of madness

Young Souls

This game has soul

Ikai

The pen is mightier than the sword

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

Gearbox doffs its pointy hat to the pen-and-paper genre

A Memoir Blue

An aquatic adventure that needs to go deeper

Replica

Big Brother is hacking you

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Casting a long Shadow

Legal Dungeon

Roll for police initiative

Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files

Yagami’s drop-kicking sidekick gets his time to shine

MLB The Show 22

All about that base, ’bout that base – and fly balls

Chrono Cross – The Radical Dreamers

Square Enix’s remastered JRPG classic is doing overtime

Weird West

If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood… shoot it

Nobody Saves The World

A horse, a rat, and a slug walk into a dungeon

Crusader Kings III

A true royal rumble across the centuries

GTA Online

Rockstar’s multiplayer money-maker remains an acquired taste on PS5

Guilty Gear Strive – Testament

Teaching an old Testament new Testament tricks

Fresh start

Newfound Adventure points to FFXIV’s future

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 some PS5 options you’ll enjoy

PS4 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE LAST GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

STILL PLAYING

Games that continue to hold our attention

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

Motorstorm RC

Hitting top gear with a small but perfectly formed racer

DON’T DELETE

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

Dragon’s Dogma

The wind has pushed this fantasy towards its tenth birthday

Nero

The good-hearted Nero might be DMC’s real future, argues Oscar Taylor-Kent

THE SOUND OF THE FUTURE

Mass Effect composer Jack Wall discusses his long career and creating the sound of space with Aaron Potter

HE IS THE MUSIC MAN

A brief look at Jack Wall’s other videogame soundtracks

Dishonored

PLAY NOW

Comics-based games

A BRIEF HISTORY OF

Don’t fear the reaper

Hyperion remains the pick of the bosses in Returnal thanks to a stunning organ solo