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Welcome

Greetings, PLAYer. We don’t often put games you

A Plague Tale goes bigger and better

Requiem’s lead level designer Kevin Pinson discusses greater freedom and heaps o’ rats

Taylormade news

Stitching the facts together

A fighting chance

Big news about multiple fighting games as the genre is poised for a new era

Woah de Cologne

It was great to be back in person at Europe’s biggest gaming event, even if there were few surprises

The month in mouthing off

“TODAY I AM HERE TO SHARE SOME OTHER

Welcome to Hell-A

Zombie slaying RPG Dead Island 2 comes back from the dead next year

Edge of our seats

Sony unveils a premium DualSense controller

GEAR: STUFF WE LOVE

Superb statues celebrate series stars

OFFICIAL BACKBONE CONTROLLER

Hey, it’s as close to a new PS Vita as we’re gonna get

Detective noir

Alone In The Dark makes a haunting return

What do we want to see from a new Mafia game?

A Mafia game is in the works, but Hangar 13’s yet to squeal on whether it’s a mainline entry or a spin-off

“GAME HANGOVERS CAUSE US TO CONFRONT OUR OWN IDEAS ABOUT OURSELVES.”

What happens when you finish a game and can’t stop thinking about it?

“THERE ARE LOTS OF REASONS TO WELCOME A NEW, FREE, SK ATE GAME.”

Done right, an F2P Skate game could revitalise a genre on its last legs

Photography

Feel like snapping? We’ve got a selection of games to put you in the picture

Exoprimal

Raptor round your finger

Project Code Name M

Why should killers be the only ones committing murder?

Ship Of Fools

Water you gonna do this time?

Afterimage

Who cares about imminent danger when it looks so pretty?

The Dark Pictures: The Devil In Me

Shambling in the dark of the murder castle

Moonbreaker

Shooting for the sky, the only way is up

Tintin Reporter: Cigars Of The Pharaoh

FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA EARLY 2023 /

Phantom Hellcat

FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA TBC PUB ALL

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA AUTUMN 2022 /

Tactics Ogre: Reborn

FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 11 NOV PUB

Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game

FORMAT PS4 / ETA 2023 PUB GOOD SHEPHERD

The Lords Of The Fallen

FORMAT PS5 / ETA 29 SEP PUB CI

Dune: Awakening

FORMAT PS5 / ETA 2022 / PUB FUNCOM

The Rumble Fish 2

FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA WINTER 2022 /

Going green

The Genshin Impact dev team speak with Oscar Taylor-Kent about the changes they’re making to their open-world RPG, from an evolving story to new exploration options, and improvements for PS5

The adventurer’s guidebook

Free-to-play open-world RPG Genshin Impact can be intimidating, but Oscar Taylor-Kent’s on hand to crack open his journal and give you some tips

Live, die, repeat

The best things in life are free. Beyond Genshin Impact, there’s plenty of fun to be had without spending a penny

Earning a Knighthood

WB Games Montréal’s Geoff Ellenor and Wilson Mui talk about building their own take on Gotham City, and citizens from heroes to villains

074 The Last Of Us Part I

Will improved graphics recapture the magic?

The Last Of Us Part I

Part and parcel

Sword And Fairy: Together Forever

Practicing our martial hearts

Destroy All Humans! 2 – Reprobed

Little grey sells (but we think it really shouldn’t)

Thymesia

Soulslikes have become a bit of a plague

Soul Hackers 2

Puts a Ringo on it

Rollerdrome

Wheel be honest with you, this is pretty good

We Are OFK

A promising bedroom EP

Digimon Survive

Surviving but not thriving

Dusk Diver 2

A beat-’em-up that won’t hurry up

Cursed To Golf

Driving you fore-rious

Saints Row

Steer clear, this one’s a sinner

Cult Of The Lamb

Starting a cult? Mutton wrong with that

Midnight Fight Express

Brawling with edge and Droney

Rumbleverse

Can’t knock out the competition

PS5 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

PS4 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE LAST GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

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

Sega Rally Championship

Sega’s classic arcade racer’s Japan-only PS2 conversion

The LOTR: The Two Towers

We’re Helm’s Deep in nostalgia for this one’s 20th birthday

Sonic The Werehog

Alan Wen speaks up for Sonic Unleashed’s dark and furry side

No Heroes Allowed

Making a dungeon work for you

A BRIEF HISTORY OF Narrative games

Get comfortable; we’ll tell you a story

A feast for crows

Taking an afternoon stroll through a rotting battlefield in A Plague Tale: Innocence