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We won’t force you to read this one, but we think you’re going to want to, as cover game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (p42) looks set to make a current-gen splash on PS5 as soon as March. Add on PSVR2’s imminent launch, and we’re gearing up for PlayStati

JRPGs aren’t renowned for their diverse characters, at least not without leaning into stereotypes. So it’s refreshing to see Outerloop Games, a Seattle-based studio made up of immigrants from different cultures, putting a spin on the genre by drawing

MANAGING ART EDITOR Like Indiana Jones trying to evade being squished by a massive boulder, I‘m expecting that I’ll forever be trying to outrun Amazon’s relentless sales pitch henchmen of microtransactions and battle/season passes. In all seriousness

WRITER BIO Luke Kemp plays every gaming format, but PS5 gets far more of his time than anything else. He’s got to get his money’s worth. For the first time, I’m starting to feel slightly embarrassed of my gaming hobby. Not because I think it’s a was

WRITER BIO Oscar Taylor-Kent needs games to relax with after playing so many for work – but they need to have a reason to be played. As gamers, we love to play systems. But even those of us who think we’re able to get one over on money-hungry games

With over a hundred recorded victims, The Quartering Duke is a serial killer on a rampage in a world with a spiralling crime rate. And so the so-called Detective Alliance, an elite group of ranked sleuths who go by aliases, get together to put an end

‘‘Song In The Smoke launched at a weird time,” Jake Kazdal, CEO and creative director of developer 17-Bit, reflects as we discuss the game’s original October 2021 launch. “Sony support was great [in terms of] getting the title going, and funding thin

Make sure you’ve got some space, it’s time to cut loose Climbing to the top of the pile ETA 22 FEB / PUB SONY / DEV GUERRILLA GAMES / PLAYERS 1 Not making Aloy the playable character in Horizon’s first spin-off is a smart choice on the part of Guerr

FORMAT PS5 (reviewed), PS4 PRICE £32.99 ETA Out nowPUB WayForward DEV WayForward PLAYERS 1-4 Not much has changed for this street-fighting sequel, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s hard to go too far wrong when you’re building on the alrea

FORMAT PS5 (reviewed), PS4 PRICE £13.99ETA Out nowPUB The Arcade Crew DEV JoyMasherPLAYERS 1 Like a Twitter celeb turning on the platform’s new owner, the mechanical samurai hero of Joymasher’s new retro fling doesn’t sign up to put down the world’s

FORMAT PS4 PRICE £17.99 (or £32.99 with Persona 4 Golden)ETA Out nowPUB Sega DEV Atlus PLAYERS 1 Despite the name, this long-awaited remaster of the Persona that started it all1 clearly isn’t portable. But keeping the name of this edition intact make

FORMAT PS4PRICE £17.99 (or £32.99 with Persona 3 Portable)ETA Out nowPUB SegaDEV AtlusPLAYERS 1 Back in the day, this PS Vita version of the PS2 game was a must-play for owners of the handheld, though while this calendar-based dungeon crawler with so

Every month, loads of games come to the PS Store. You’d be hard-pressed to play them all, so we’re looking at some that didn’t make the cut for a full review. This month, we look at strange twists on standard relationships across love, deaths, and, e

Endlessly stylish, we keep coming back to this time and time again. Trapped on a time-looping island, Colt must blast his way out by assassinating eight targets in one day, using special powers to get the upper hand, all while avoiding a (sometimes p

You won’t find another open world quite like this, the streets of Los Santos paling in comparison to this gorgeous western sprawl. Arthur Morgan’s wild west adventure is epic, emotional, and has enough teasing mysteries on every Horizon for no two co

Tetris, yeah? It might be a great game, but it’s easy to understand why you’d brush this version off as ‘just more Tetris’ at a glance. Yet Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s trippy, transcendent take on the block-based puzzler is nothing short of a masterpiece. Su