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Welcome

It feels like Dying Light 2 has been

PES 2022 shoots for photorealism

Konami reveals its ambition to create the best-looking PES ever on PS5

Taylor-made news

Oscar Taylor-Kent’s news slap

Is PlayStation 5 getting a redesign?

Rumours of a new console circulate

Pointing to greatness

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles comes to PlayStation

Let’s watch the forest grow

Winds & Leaves brings a garden view exclusively to PSVR headsets later this year. We see the game in action…

In step with PlayStation 5

The PG 5 PlayStation 5 colourway is here… for now

Back 4 Blood reshuffles

Turtle Rock Studios reveals its roguelite black heart

GEAR: STUFF WE LOVE

The best controllers for PlayStation 4

A cold welcome

Arctic Awakening has you on thin ice

What should Sony’s exclusive online game be?

With former Bungie developers behind it, we already know the potential for greatness is there

“AS PS VITA TRULY FIZZLES, IS FRONT-ROOM DOMINATION ENOUGH FOR PLAYSTATION?”

Should Sony return to putting gaming directly into player hands?

“I NEED SOME NEW RELEASES TO HELP PULL ME OUT OF A SLUMP.”

Sometimes you’re just not in the mood to game on

REPLIES

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READERS’ MOST WANTED

Which games are bleeping loudest on your radar?

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A Nixplay Smart Photo Frame worth £269.99

Hot Shots

We’re celebrating your very best PlayStation photo mode moments

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

1 Mik Bromley Game: Spirit Of The North

Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance

Would you risk it for a Drizzt? 

Last Stop

Taking the scenic route to the weird outside your window 

Lemnis Gate

Not unlike playing 4D chess 

Lost Judgment

Like a dragon? Love this…

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Insomniac’s omni-dimensional romp is Riveting 

WRC 10

No need to pump the brakes on this one 

Scarlet Nexus

A mind-bending action RPG with protagonist double trouble 

Xuan Yuan Sword 7

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Among Us

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Residual

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BPM: Bullets Per Minute

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Anew: The Distant Light

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Hanako: Honor & Blade

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Blue Fire

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Ender Lilies: Quietus Of The Knights

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INTO THE LIGHT

Ian Dean talks with the team at Techland about bringing Dying Light 2 – Stay Human to PS5, player choice, and more

NEED TO KNOW

Catch up on Dying Light 2 with our ten blagger’s guide pointers

FACTIONS MATTER

Choose a side and change the world

RUN, AIDEN, RUN

Parkour is back for good, have faith

JULI, MADLY, DEEPLY

Jess Kinghorn chats  Deathloop with Arkane Studios, and gets to know its latest leading lady

Resident Evil Village

Keep it in the family

THE PLAYBOOK

WHAT YOU DO IN: RE VILLAGE ALSO ON

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster

Letting the demon out of the bottle

Super Meat Boy Forever

Meat the parents

Buildings Have Feelings Too!

The city sure is fussy

Battle Axe

And other weapons to grind

Biomutant

Can’t see the forest fur the trees?

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Wrath Of The Druids

Dying on the hill of Tara

Layers Of Fear VR

A horror to go Wilde over?

BANDWIDTH

PS4-to-PS5 game updates chewed on

Returnal

This roguelike gets a bit loopy

Call Of The Sea

A change in tide for cosmic horror creepers

Skate City

Anything but a grind

Nongünz: Doppelgänger Edition

Will leave you nonplüssed

Wonder Boy: Asha In Monster World

Wonder why

Subnautica: Below Zero

An underwater alien world best served cold

Judgment

Back on the case in Kamurocho

R-Type Final 2

What’s a pirate’s favourite type of shoot-’em-up?

Terminator: Resistance Enhanced

We now know why you cry

Maskmaker

More fun than a factory job… right?

THREE TO PLAY

PSN games you might have missed

Hood: Outlaws & Legends

It’s all good in the Hood. Mostly

TOP FIVE ONLINE GAMES

Team up with pals or take on the world

Outriders

Keeping the wagons rolling online

MotoGP 21

See your MotoGP online

Enlisted

Rifle through your f2p options for this

Wasteland 3 –The Battle Of Steeltown

Get ready for some heavy metal

Best of three

Apex Legends gets a new 3v3 mode, Arenas

LIVE GAMES

Online games still keeping our attention

PS5 Hall of fame

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE NEW GEN’S GREATEST GAMES

The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope

High hopes for Supermassive’s future on PS5

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

WHAT’S NEW PLUS-SY CAT?

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

Project Zero II: Crimson Butterfly

Ever wanted to catch a ghost on camera?

Shadows Of The Damned

Reflecting on Garcia Hotspur’s Johnson ten years on

Abby Anderson

Luke Kemp takes a walk down Abby road in search of redemption

THE WARRIOR OF FUNK JOINS THE PARTY

We talk to music producer, composer, and YouTube sensation Alex Moukala

The Darkness

Can this cult classic still cut it on PS Now?

Castlevania

Let’s stake a look into the past

Bad moon rising

The blood moon illuminates Yharnam’s darkest secrets. Chase the dawn and see how deep the rabbit hole goes in Bloodborne