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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

A Plague Tale goes bigger and better • Requiem’s lead level designer Kevin Pinson discusses greater freedom and heaps o’ rats Getting you closer to PlayStation’s most exciting stories, people, and culture

Taylormade news • Stitching the facts together

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

Holmes improvement • Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened gets ground-up remake

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

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

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

“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, SKATE GAME.” • Done right, an F2P Skate game could revitalise a genre on its last legs

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?

ON THE HORIZON • The next six months, mapped out

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

Phantom Hellcat

Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider

Tactics Ogre: Reborn

Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game

The Lords Of The Fallen

Dune: Awakening

The Rumble Fish 2

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

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

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