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Days Gone contains "anywhere from two to six film scores" worth of music, says the game's composer

By Ian Dean, Play Staff published 8 July 19

Interview Official PlayStation Magazine chats with Days Gone composer Nathan Whitehead about what it takes to score a video game

Interview

"This is an action movie where you get to be the action hero" – How PSVR's Blood & Truth puts you in the leading role

By Play Staff published 28 May 19

Feature Is Blood & Truth the next must-own PSVR game? Official PlayStation Magazine take it for a spin to find out

Feature

The Surge 2: Hands-on with the Soulsborne trying to carve out its own legacy

By Play Staff, Ian Dean published 14 May 19

Preview The Surge 2 is certainly channeling Dark Souls, but is it a worthy replacement?

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

Cory Barlog, Keita Iizuka, and more PlayStation developers on the games that defined them

By Play Staff published 31 December 18

Feature From Monster Hunter to Dark Souls, some of Sony's biggest developers share their favourite titles of PlayStation past

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Gaming's wildest animal attacks

By Play Staff published 13 October 17

Feature

Now, more than ever, we need shooters like Timesplitters 2

By Play Staff published 3 May 17

Feature

PlayStation's 9 most shocking scary moments

By Play Staff published 27 February 17

Feature

The 10 weirdest save points in video game history

By Play Staff published 31 August 16

Best List

Which Olympic 'sport' would make the best videogame?

By Play Staff published 16 August 16

Feature

The best dance moves in PlayStation history

By Play Staff published 1 December 15

Feature

For Honor - a game of war more than a decade in the making

By Play Staff published 23 November 15

Preview

Revisiting Resident Evil 2 - why it's so worthy of a remake

By Play Staff published 22 September 15

Game History

What makes Jak 2: Renegade the best in the series?

By Play Staff published 7 September 15

Game History

How aggressive spanking helped make God Hand a gaming classic

By Play Staff published 19 August 15

Game History

How WipEout captured the mood of a generation

By Play Staff published 10 August 15

Game History

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night was designed to work upside down

By Play Staff published 23 July 15

Game History

17 years on and Tekken 3 still evokes memories like few other fighters

By Play Staff published 15 July 15

Game History

Getting back to Star Wars Battlefront's roots

By Play Staff published 8 July 15

Feature

Imagine Silent Hills on PS4s Morpheus VR oh, thats new horror game Kitchen

By Play Staff published 17 June 15

News

Dust off the night-vision goggles as we look back at Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

By Play Staff published 11 June 15

Feature

Popping on a moustache and glasses with PlayStations best disguises

By Play Staff published 10 June 15

Feature

Remembering PS1's finest hour with Final Fantasy 7

By Play Staff published 4 June 15

Feature

Destiny meets Skyrim in The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited on console

By Play Staff published 29 May 15

Preview

Nine of PlayStation's smartest Artificial Intelligence pests

By Play Staff published 28 May 15

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