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Official PlayStation Magazine is the complete guide to PlayStation gaming, offering complete coverage of PS4, PS3 and PS Vita. Famed for our trademark biting opinion, unique spin on news, offbeat, innovative features, independent reviews and retro features - and with PS4 the unquestionable victor for new-gen gaming - there's never been a better time to join Team OPM on our PlayStation journey.

Welcome

THIS MONTH’S NEW-GEN PLAYERZ

THE FUTURE OF PLAYSTATION 5 • WHICH OF THESE EIGHT SUBSCRIBER COVERS DID YOU GET THIS MONTH?

Chipping into virtual reality’s next level • With PS VR for PS5 announced, developers talk about their hopes for the medium

IN THE BOX

Making bold new Dark Alliances • D&D is ready to rock on PS4 and PS5

TROLLING THE TROLL

Taylor-made news • Oscar Taylor-Kent’s news slap

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…

JESS’S REAL DEAL

Shredding PS4 pixels • Turtles turn back time for their comeback

Numbers Game • We do the maths

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?

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

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

STAR LETTER HAND IT TO ME

CAN I GET A RT? • The most pleasing tweetings from the @OPM_UK timeline…

REPLIES

READERS’ MOST WANTED • Which games are bleeping loudest on your radar?

Hot Shots • We’re celebrating your very best PlayStation photo mode moments

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

Aliens: Fireteam • “We’re on an express elevator to hell, going down!”

FACTRICK

Game on film • Three ways Aliens: Fireteam echoes the films

Legend Of Mana • This summer, Square Enix breathes new life into a JRPG legend

ON THE HORIZON • The next six months, mapped out

Samurai Warriors 5 • Mitsuhide and seek

FACTRICK

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

FACTRICK

MotoGP 2021 • Prepare for the ride of your PS5’s life

FACTRICK

TRACK RECORD

Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139… • Harder, better, faster, stronger

Subnautica: Below Zero

The Stone Of Madness

Scourgebringer

Wonder Boy: Asha In Monster World

Serial Cleaners

Chernobylite

Rico London

Tormented Souls

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 ex tra story

MIDDLE CHILD • Bridging the gap for FFVIIR Part 2, this is what we want to see from Episode Yuffie

RETURNAL • Just got a PS5?...