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15 NEXT-GEN HITS-IN-WAITING

SOLAR ASH

Gravity-rushing up our most-wanted list

Format PS5 ETA 2021 Pub Annapurna Interactive Dev Heart Machine

The team behind indie legend Hyper Light Drifter is back with a surreal visual spectacle and gameplay built around gravity-defying leaps and skate-like gliding. The camera twists and spins, the ground becomes the sky, and a vast vista of purple-grassed fields and spiral mountains lies before us. Wielding an oversized needle and thread our hero can lasso and pin to platforms as they spin past and hook and swing about the world. It’s Gravity Rush meets Willy Wonka and we’re lacing up our skates for all that entails.

SACKBOY: A BIG ADVENTURE

Fits PS5 like a woolly glove

Format PS5 ETA TBC Pub Sony Dev Sumo Digital

We’re entering a new era of videogames, and Sony’s still pushing Sackboy. But hold on, there’s Sackgirl too! This spin-off looks to offer some classic platforming silliness with a friend along for the ride in co-op mode. We expect

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