THE 100 GREATEST PLAYSTATION GAMES OF ALL TIME

Welcome

Unsurprisingly, putting together the Top 100 (p48) that

Make a big bang as a self-made Boss

Volition lifts the hood on deep customisation options for Saints Row reboot

Watts up?

Rachel Watts’ rumour report

Drop it like it’s hot

Crystal Dynamics, Square Enix Montréal, and Eidos sold to Embracer Group

Getting a refresh

PS5’s new VRR support makes Spider-Man super-slick

Life unbound

Dimas Novan tells us how A Space For The Unbound blends magical realism with nostalgia for ’90s Indonesia

Punching up

PlayStation Tournaments raise the stakes as Evo 2022 looms on the horizon.

Back to square one

Sonic Origins speeds towards the series’ beginnings

GEAR: STUFF WE LOVE

This month, four ways to treat your ears

Heroes in a half shell

Overwatch 2: heroic, but is it a true sequel?

What do you want from the Summer Game Fest?

We’re due a sup of gaming news to quench the recent drought. What do the team want to hear?

“SONY’S ANSWER TO MICROSOFT’S XBOX GAME PASS IS A HARD SELL.”

PlayStation’s new PS Plus tiers lack the simplicity of rival services

“FUN AS IT WAS ON PS3, PS MOVE JUST DIDN’T CUT IT AS A PSVR CONTROLLER.”

PS Move held back last-gen’s VR. I hope future controllers work better

Puzzles

Test your grey matter on these games packed with head-scratching conundrums

REPLIES

#14 Enjoying a new location in The Elder

F1 2022

Miami nice

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge

Flash back to the ’80s with this vintage-style beat-’em-up

Exo One

A journey of disc-overy

Hello Neighbor 2

Small town, big mystery

Story Of Seasons: Pioneers Of Olive Town

A fist full of seeds

Hyper Light Breaker

The pixel-punk RPG has had a glow

Nine Sols

Secrets and lives

AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative

Have a Psync about what you’ve done

PREVIEW

No More Heroes III “TRAVIS’ ASSASSIN RANKING TAKES

Trek To Yomi

A stunning homage whose blade needs some sharpening

Bugsnax – The Isle Of Bigsnax

Just desserts

Chernobylite

No Cher here, but you can turn back time

Lego Builder’s Journey

A lighthearted puzzle adventure told brick by brick

The House Of The Dead: Remake

An arcade classic reanimated, for better and worse

Slipstream

OutRun, 2022-style

Road 96

Tyre on tarmac

Lake

An adventure that delivers

Winter Ember

You’re best off giving this the cold shoulder

Scourgebringer

Rage against the machines in a relentless roguelite

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Welcome back employee 427

MotoGP 22

The 2022 game where 2009 steals the show

Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles

Some puzzling choices

Tasomachi: Behind The Twilight

Behind, over, and under the twilight!

THREE TO PLAY

PSN games you might have missed

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt

Sucking has never felt so good

Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – Coiled Captors

Finning you a brand new tail

Big moves

Call Of Duty tackles Godzilla and more in Season 3

The Sims

Living the not so Sim-ple life

Final Fantasy Tactics

Ivalice’s introduction enjoys a roaring 25th birthday

Hamura Kyohei

Judgment’s chief recurring thorn-in-the-side is annoyingly appealing, Max Williams confesses

ALL EYETOYS ON YOU

Vic Pheasey explores the best games for EyeToy on PS2

Red Faction

Let the revolution begin… again

Sony controllers

You’ve got to hand it to them

Song of the twins

Your reward for a job well done in Nier Replicant isn’t treasure – but it’s priceless nonetheless