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As PLAY Magazine’s former games editor, Jess is known for championing the weird, the wonderful, and the downright janky. A fan of cult classic JRPGs and horror, her rants about Koudelka and Shadow Hearts have held many a captive audience. Outside of writing about all things PlayStation, she’s also a lifelong fan of Nintendo’s handheld consoles. Having whiled away most of her college years playing The World Ends With You on the original Nintendo DS, she’s looking forward to uncovering all of NEO’s secrets too. Beginning her career as Official PlayStation Magazine’s staff writer in 2017, she’s since written for PC Gamer, SFX, Games Master, and Games TM.

Latest articles by Jess Kinghorn

The 10 best BioWare games of all time

By Jess Kinghorn Last updated 23 December 25

Features Check out the best BioWare games to get stuck into before you play Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Features

The clip selection screen in Immortality, highlighting a clip of Marrisa Marcel with the director of Ambrosio

"Part of the genesis of Immortality was the three years I spent making a Legacy Of Kain game that got cancelled": Sam Barlow on the making of his "interactive movie"

By Jess Kinghorn Published 4 January 25

Features Feature | "People kept calling these things 'interactive movies, and I was like, 'Yeah, they're not really, but okay. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's make an interactive movie!'"

Features

Alan Wake creators discuss challenges of going multi-platform and multi-project: "It's always going to be tough, but it's also pretty awesome"

By Jess Kinghorn Published 15 April 24

Interview Interview | Play magazine speaks to Remedy's Sam Lake, Thomas Puha about the evolution of Alan Wake from conception to sequel

Interview

Hi-Fi Rush headlines PLAY's first Xbox cover

By Jess Kinghorn Published 2 April 24

News Plus: We review Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, peek through The Fold at Unknown 9: Awakening, and dive back into Final Fantasy 14

News

With Lady Dimitrescu causing a stir, perhaps it's time that games got over their obsession with youth

By Jess Kinghorn, Play Staff Published 20 April 21

Features Let's have older female characters with more than two dimensions

Features

Why Nier: Replicant had to be made, and why it's "so much more than a simple version up"

By Jess Kinghorn, Play Staff Published 19 April 21

Features How Nier: Replicant ver.1.22474487139 used Nier: Automata to rebuild itself for a new generation

Features

How Goodbye Volcano High is shaping the next-generation of adventure games on PS5

By Jess Kinghorn, Play Staff Published 24 December 20

Features KO_OP reveals all about its upcoming PS5 game to Official PlayStation Magazine

Features

Live out your perfect monster mash in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, and prepare to get bloody

By Jess Kinghorn, Play Staff Published 14 January 20

Preview Brian Mitsoda and Cara Ellison walk OPM through combat, clans, and how to feel like a vampire

Preview

What is PS5 really capable of? Developers discuss how Sony's cutting-edge tech will change how we play games

By Jess Kinghorn Published 27 December 19

Features Developers and industry experts discuss how PS5's focus on SSD memory, ray tracing and backward compatibility will change the way we play

Features

"I'm gonna drop everything I’m doing" – Final Fantasy 14 Shadowbringers director would leave Square Enix behind for one dream collaboration

By Jess Kinghorn Published 16 July 19

Interview Official PlayStation Magazine talks with FF XIV’s director on his dream project, and tips for new players

Interview

Rhythm-action games should be more like musicals than fitness videos - working our emotions, not just our reflexes

By Jess Kinghorn Published 25 June 19

Opinion

Code Vein wears its influences on its sleeve, but it's adding its own wrinkles to the popular Souls-like formula

By Jess Kinghorn Published 4 June 19

Preview There’s no time to praise the sun in Bandai Namco's sharp-and-pointy action RPG Code Vein

Preview

Atomic Heart is a mysterious Soviet action RPG with echoes of Metro 2033, BioShock and Fallout

By Jess Kinghorn Published 23 April 19

Preview Watch 10 mins of developer Mundfish's bizarre PS4 horror adventure which will make a Marxman of you

Preview

An image of Bragi Axebiter from Warhammer: Chaosbane

Warhammer: Chaosbane channels Diablo 3 in a four-player action RPG starring *gargles* Bragi Axebiter

By Jess Kinghorn Published 1 April 19

Preview An old-school hack-and-slash with shades of Gauntlet invites you to Join up to four friends to ravage Nurgle's hordes

Preview

An image of Last Labyrinth on PS4, Oculus Rift and Vive

Last Labyrinth is a PS VR escape room game where you play as a wheelchair user with a laser pointer

By Jess Kinghorn Published 29 March 19

Preview Producer Hiromichi Takahashi outlines PS4's virtual reality puzzle game starring Stefanie Joosten aka Quiet from MGS5

Preview

An image of Shadow and Sonic from Team Sonic Racing

Team Sonic Racing aims to nudge Crash Team Racing off the track… by focusing on friendly play

By Play Staff, Jess Kinghorn Published 22 March 19

Preview Producer Takashi Iizuka talks exclusively to Official PlayStation Magazine about the future of Sonic games, balancing character classes and why he prefers Shadow the Hedgehog

Preview

Dauntless is PS4's new action RPG that wants you to notice it's like Monster Hunter… only free-to-play

By Jess Kinghorn Published 1 March 19

Features With vibrant, Overwatch-style characters, PS4's upcoming online battler wears its influences - and owl-bear armour - on its sleeve

Features

An image of Warframe for Official PlayStation Magazine

"We don't like to follow trends": Digital Extremes on Warframe's five year journey from sleeper hit to industry titan

By Jess Kinghorn Published 1 January 19

Features Official PlayStation Magazine catches up with Digital Extremes to reflect on the studio’s past and future with Warframe

Features

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