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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 BIG BOSSES

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Make a big bang as a self-made Boss • Volition lifts the hood on deep customisation options for Saints Row reboot

Drop it like it’s hot • Crystal Dynamics, Square Enix Montréal, and Eidos sold to Embracer Group

OFF THE CHAIN

Watts up? • Rachel Watts’ rumour report

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.

PlayStation voices • The month in mouthing off

WINNING MILLION

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?

Numbers Game • We do the maths

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?

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

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

“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

REPLIES

STAR LETTER FANTASY FOOTIE

CAN I GET ART? • The most pleasing tweetings from our timeline…

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

F1 2022 • Miami nice

FACTRICK

Tracking your progress • Our favourite three tracks from our hands-on

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge • Flash back to the ’80s with this vintage-style beat-’em-up

ON THE HORIZON • The next six months, mapped out

Exo One • A journey of disc-overy

FACTRICK

Hello Neighbor 2 • Small town, big mystery

Everybody needs good neighbours • Raven Brooks’ top three creepiest residents

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

FACTRICK

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AI: The Somnium Files – Nirvana Initiative • Have a Psync about what you’ve done

No More Heroes III • FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 4 OCT / PUB XSEED GAMES DEV GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE / PLAYERS 1

Shadowrun Trilogy

Thymesia

The Knight Witch

Cook Serve Forever

The Legend Of Heroes: Trails From Zero

Madison

GrimGrimoire OnceMore

THE 100 GREATEST PLAYSTATION GAMES OF ALL TIME • Team PLAY argue their way into assembling the 100 best PlayStation games of all time, from PS1 to PS5. From classics to overlooked gems, come and nod in agreement and shake your fist as we count down to #1

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR • The classics that didn’t quite make the cut

39 DEATH STRANDING • Walk the line

RACHEL WATTS STAFF WRITER

30 ASSASSIN’S CREED II • Under the hood

MIRIAM...