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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

Airship Syndicate opens up its world • Where there’s a will, there’s a Wayfinder: the devs discuss their ambitious quest-’em-up

Goodbye FIFA, hello EA Sports FC • The biggest series in sports is no more. What happens next?

Sweet Tooth bites • Twisted Metal’s streaming series blends action and comedy on Peacock

Aiming down sights • How Unreal Engine 5 powers precise shooting on PSVR2

Serving up • Jörg Tittel, Ryan Bousfield, and Rob Davis reveal how C-Smash VRS is hitting it out of the park on PSVR2

Just like new • Atelier Marie Remake synthesises a fresh take on a PS1 classic

What would attract you to a live service game? • With some big names closing this year, what would tempt the team to try a new one?

Pacifism • Give peace a chance with games that offer a non-violent path to victory

“SEE THE ENDING? HALF THE FUN OF FAR CRY IS MAKING A FAST EXIT.” • Far Cry’s secret endings are a fulfilling way of concluding early

“I MIGHT PLAY SOME SPORTS GAMES IF I EVER SAW MYSELF REPRESENTED.” • Many major sports sims make women’s leagues a low priority

Honkai: Star Rail • (Inter)stellar RPG shoots for the turn-based moon

Dordogne • A watercolour adventure

Final Fantasy XVI • Ashes to ashes, funk to funky

Crash Team Rumble • Call us chumba wumpa – we get back up again

Armored Core VI: Fires Of Rubicon

Immortals Of Aveum

Hercule Poirot: The London Case

Fort Solis

Remnant 2

Inspector Gadget: Mad Time Party

Funko Fusion

Crymachina

Street Fighter 6 • All the single players

Roll up, roll up! • Jess Kinghorn on why Baldur’s Gate 3 is shaping up to be a natural 20

Forget me not • Jeremy Peel delves into the catacombs to exhume the games that made D&D’s Forgotten Realms a fixture on PlayStation

IS X GON’ GIVE IT TO YA? • Worlds collide and bullets fly in XDefiant, Ubisoft’s promising free-to-play crossover shooter. Dashiell Wood deploys to find out if it has what it takes

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor • How did we lose a whole planet?

Stray Blade • Shaking the ground beneath your feet

Creed: Rise To Glory – Championship Edition • Only just fails the weigh in

Humanity • Follow the shiba

Nuclear Blaze • Feel the burn in this flaming hot 2D platformer

Mato Anomalies • Exorcise your cyberdemons

Zool Redimensioned • Ninja goblins are a thing

Postal 4: No Regerts • Seriously, you will regert it

The Mageseeker: A League Of Legends Story • The great mage rebellion needs a brighter spark

Live A Live • RPG fans assemble for this glorious HD-2D ensemble

Another Fisherman’s Tale • Yes, one more tale – and fish time it’s personal

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores • Get ready for sun, sand, and to crash-land

Age Of Wonders 4 • Time to play this one for another 20 years

Tin Hearts • Not really our sort of tin, to be honest

Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection • Jacking in 22 years later

Road 96: Mile 0 • Where we’re going, we do need roads

THREE TO PLAY • PSN games you might have missed

Disney Speedstorm • Angling to be the Fortnite of kart racers

Monster Hunter Rise:...