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Welcome

The future, eh? Who knows what that might

Chipping into virtual reality’s next level

With PS VR for PS5 announced, developers talk about their hopes for the medium

Taylor-made news

Oscar Taylor-Kent’s news slap

Making bold new Dark Alliances

D&D is ready to rock on PS4 and PS5

Get over here

Mortal Kombat’s director takes us to his Outworld

A real steel

Bullet-time parkour shooter Severed Steel is channelling The Matrix and Black

Cosmic horror ignites

PS5 indie shooter Quantum Error goes interstellar

Athia is Forspoken

Square Enix’s PS5-exclusive finally reveals itself

GEAR: STUFF WE LOVE

It’s Resident Evil’s 25th anniversary…

Shredding PS4 pixels

Turtles turn back time for their comeback

Life Is Strange gets colourful

The new game from Deck Nine is all about getting emotional

How should Remedy follow up Control?

As Remedy confirms two new connected world games are in the works, we ask what should they be?

IN THE MOOD FOR… Curses

Beware: we swear these PlayStation games may leave you jinxed

“ONE PLAYER’S TRASH IS ANOTHER PLAYER’S DIRTY BUT LOVABLE TREASURE.”

Games don’t have to be slick and universally loved to be good

“GAMES NEED TO GET OVER THEIR OBSESSION WITH YOUTH ABOVE ALL.”

Let’s have older female characters with more than two dimensions

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READERS’ MOST WANTED

Which games are bleeping loudest on your radar?

Hot Shots

We’re celebrating your very best PlayStation photo mode moments

Aliens: Fireteam

“We’re on an express elevator to hell, going down!”

Legend Of Mana

This summer, Square Enix breathes new life into a JRPG legend

Samurai Warriors 5

Mitsuhide and seek

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Own the streets one tag at a time

KeyWe

There may be no ‘I’ in team but there are two in ‘Kiwi’

Ninja Gaiden: Master Collection

We’ve got a kunai to pick

Moto GP 2021

Prepare for the ride of your PS5’s life

Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139

Harder, better, faster, stronger

Subnautica: Below Zero

iFORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 14 MAY / PUB UNKNOWN WORLDS ENTERTAINMENT DEV UNKNOWN WORLDS ENTERTAINMENT / PLAYERS 1

PS5: NOW AND NEXT

Six months after PS5’s release,  leading developers give their  verdict on the console and what  they expect its future to be like

FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE

The Midgar-set adventure gets a PS5 upgrade  and much more, including extra story

RETURNAL

Just got a PS5? Here’s  what to play first

KENA: BRIDGE OF SPIRITS

A colourful adventure  certain to spirit us away

TOP GEAR

Benoit Jacquier, technical director at Kylotonn, shares his thoughts on the future of racing games on PS5, as he reveals the first details of WRC 10

PS5’S SLEEPER HITS

PLAY NEXT  THE LORD  OF THE RINGS:  GOLLUM

A LORNE UNTO HIMSELF

Legendary PlayStation developer Lorne Lanning, creator of Oddworld, says Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is his pick of PS5’s future releases

SIFU

Reigning martial arts champion Sloclap  returns for a take on the master

RESIDENT EVIL VILLAGE

Director Morimasa Sato explains how the  Capcom team – already experts in creating  creepiness – are taking horror to new levels

OUTRIDERS

It’s time to strap on our power  armour to save humanity – again

DEATHLOOP

Solving Arkane’s murder puzzle

ODDWORLD: SOULSTORM

Out now, Abe’s leading the charge for  quirky PlayStation hits to come

It Takes Two

Mandatory co-op calls for a reviewer double act

Crash 4: It’s About Time

Make the time to revisit your old pals

Monster Jam: Steel Titans 2

This is our jam

Anodyne 2: Return To Dust!

Here’s to fine dyning

Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart Of The Forest

Rage against everything

Narita Boy

INFO FORMAT PS4 PRICE £14.99 ETA Out now

THREE TO PLAY

PSN games you might have missed

Mortal Shell

Are you ready for some 4K/60fps mortal combat?

Yupitergrad

Hand-to-hand komrade

Kill It With Fire

Eight legs bad, two guns good

Monster Energy Supercross 4

Bump and grind

Maquette

Puzzling its way into a corner

Yakuza: Like A Dragon

No need to brawl on the streets for this upgrade

Signs Of The Sojourner

Play your cards right

BANDWIDTH

PS4-to-PS5 game updates chewed on

The Nioh Collection

Lone wolves are so 2019

Immortals: Fenyx Rising – Myths Of The Eastern Realm

Dawn of a brand new deity

NEW Scraping off the Rust

A peek into the survival genre’s future

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

Five years ago in OPM

A game so big it took the back cover as well as the front: Uncharted 4 was the star of OPM #122

DEFENDING Raiden

The new Metal Gear protagonist was a bold but interesting choice, argues Malindy Hetfeld

THE MOMENTS THAT MADE THE MASS EFFECT TRILOGY

Malindy Hetfeld reveals her personal series highs

Fighting Vipers

Free on PlayStation Now. Does this brawler still have it?

Street Fighter

Street Fighter Nostalgia: Special Trivia Edition. Turbo

Let there be chaos

Kratos pokes around his secret stash and digs out relics of a past he’d rather forget to save his son in God Of War