Latest articles by Play Staff
23 years later, Hogs of War remains an unlikely turn-based classic from the PS1 era
Feature Interview | From Worms to Command & Conquer, Atari and Gremlin Interactive were inspired by the best
COD Modern Warfare 2 takes aim at PLAY’s cover
News Plus: Skull & Bones, Midnight Suns, FIFA 23, gaming movies, the GTA Top 100 and more!
PLAY’s 180-page special details everything Summer Games Fest and beyond
News Midnight Suns takes the cover, plus The Last Of Us, God Of War, Star Wars, Resident Evil, and more
PlayStation’s 100 best games get the PLAY cover treatment
News Unveiling the Top 10 – from PS1 to PS5, PLAY ranks every definitive, unmissable adventure
The Elder Scrolls Online: High Isle sets sail for PLAY’s cover
News Plus, Until Dawn’s new successor, get creative with Dreams, the story behind Mass Effect’s score, VTM Swansong, and more!
PSVR2 lights up PLAY’s latest cover
News Plus, GTA 6 rumours, a discussion with Bungie, the making of OlliOlli, and verdicts for GhostWire: Tokyo, Gran Turismo 7, GTA 5 PS5, and more!
Horizon Forbidden West leads PLAY’s review special
News Plus, PlayStation’s Bungie buyout, Moss Book II, and verdicts for Elden Ring, Sifu, Grid Legends, Dying Light 2, Uncharted’s movie, and more!
Elden Ring sits atop the throne of PLAY’s new cover
News Plus, the future of gaming, Uncharted on PS5, the best games of 2021, open world Sonic, and more!
The Play team debate which kids book they would turn into a game
News Traumatized by fairy stories as children, the team decide which villains they’d like to thump as adults
Horizon Forbidden West leads PLAY’s Games Of 2022 issue
News Plus, hands-on with Elden Ring and Dying Light 2, verdicts on Battlefield 2042 and Call Of Duty: Vanguard, PS5’s first year in review, and more!
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands flies onto PLAY’s cover
News Plus, the making of GTA III, the Christmas Gift Guide, Suicide Squad, Final Fantasy Origin, and more!
God Of War Ragnarok ascends to PLAY’s cover
News Plus, Spider-Man 2, Wolverine, Gran Turismo 7, Battlefield 2042, and more
DokeV preview: Developer talks boss fights, folklore inspiration, and capturing childlike wonder
Feature Gotta befriend 'em all
Solar Ash devs want speedrunners to "break the f*ck out of it"
News Alx Preston wants speedrunners to go to town on Solar Ash
Saints Row PLAY cover digs into its back to basics reboot
News Plus, first details on DokeV, Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong, and more
Battlefield Portal rewrites the rules on PLAY’s cover
News Plus, a huge supplement showcases the games best using PS5’s features
Is a new wave of AA games our only hope of recapturing the magic of the PS2 era?
Feature From cult classic Okami, to horror legend Silent Hill 2, the PS2 was an era of experimentation – but modern AA gaming is recapturing some of that lost magic
Elden Ring rises onto PLAY Magazine's cover
News Will the Dark Soul successor rule them all on PS5?
Lost Judgment takes you to the streets of Yokohama to solve the toughest case yet
Feature Lost Judgment sees you serve up justice with evolved combat and detective skills
Resident Evil Village proves that replayability offers better value for money than endless extra content
Feature New Game Plus offers deeper gameplay challenges that extend the game's life in a more rewarding fashion than new DLC or empty map updates
Horizon Forbidden West leads PLAY Magazine’s 180 page Hot 50 special
News The mega-sized mag dives deep into the biggest PlayStation games on the (ahem) horizon
With Lady Dimitrescu causing a stir, perhaps it's time that games got over their obsession with youth
Feature Let's have older female characters with more than two dimensions
Why Nier: Replicant had to be made, and why it's "so much more than a simple version up"
Feature How Nier: Replicant ver.1.22474487139 used Nier: Automata to rebuild itself for a new generation
