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Welcome… • Game over! But a high score? PLAY’s final issue is here, having carried the lineage of Official PlayStation Magazine, PSM, and Play forward from the ’90s to the present

THANKS FOR PLAYING

Final word • Ian Dean, former editor of Official PlayStation Magazine, PLAY, and so much more, gives a final look back across the years

PS5 Pro to launch • PS5 architect Mark Cerny finally ‘revealed’ one of the worst-kept secrets in gaming history – stick 7 Nov in your calendar

Club Ded • Swery65 discusses Hotel Barcelona, his “accidental” collaboration with friend Suda51

Metal • It’s dangerous to go alone; take these face-melting riffs

Previews

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – Tape 1 • Hitting play on Don’t Nod’s coming-of-age tale

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 • Ready for an art attack?

Spine • Looking to equal gun-fu classics

Atomfall • Cumbria as you are

.45 Parabellum Bloodhound • Cyberpunk action like little else

Crimson Desert • Devils may cry, and so might you after this

Slitterhead • Guts and gore and ghosties, oh, my!

Fantasian Neo Dimension • The Final Fantasy creator’s RPG escapes from mobile

Cairn • Reaching the peak of virtual climbing

Two Point Museum • 11:30 AM. Entering the town of Two Point

Greedfall II: The Dying World • Be a different kind of outsider in this prequel

ONCE BITTEN, THRICE SNEAKY • We base-jump towards our first taste of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, talking with series producer Noriaki Okamura about our hands-on with the remade Virtuous Mission section of the classic stealther

SHOCK-A-BLOCK • INDIE DEVELOPERS TALK TO ALAN WEN ABOUT EMPLOYING PS1-ERA AESTHETICS IN HORROR GAMES TO CREATE THE PERFECT COMBINATION OF NOSTALGIA AND DREAD

NOT SO SILENT • With a Silent Hill renaissance on the horizon, the Western developers who worked on the most recent four entries – Silent Hill: Origins, Silent Hill: Homecoming, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, and Silent Hill: Downpour – talk to James Winspear about keeping a light aflame while the fog rolls in

Late night with the devils • Andrew Wincott reflects on his performance as the delightfully devilish Raphael in Baldur’s Gate 3 with Emma Withington

Reviews

Astro Bot • Team Asobi is firing on all cylinders

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown • Flaky servers and unoriginal gameplay saved by decent driving

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 • You know what they say: xeno evil, hear no evil

Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis – The Answer • Groundbot Day

Silent Hill 2 • A revenant we welcome with open arms

Caravan SandWitch • Buckle up for a cosy adventure through the desert

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection • Hold It! Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth is on the case

Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster • This series is one zombie we’re glad to see reanimated

Vampire Survivors • Don’t worry – we made enough gazpacho for all!

THREE TO PLAY • PSN games you might have missed

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PLAY ON • Know what you like and looking for more? Here are alternatives to enjoy on your PS5

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