Sony’s latest hit, Days Gone, is one of the best-selling games of 2019 so far and we also loved it here at Official PlayStation Magazine. Keeping us company on those long Oregon trails, as we battled the Freaks, was a beautiful original soundtrack by composer Nathan Whitehead. Official PlayStation Magazine …
Read More »From Midsommar to The Wicker Man, an expert tells us how accurately Hollywood portrays some of cinemas most coercive cults
Ari Aster’s Hereditary follow-up, Midsommar, explores the world of cults as a young couple on a Swedish road trip discover that a quaint local festival may be much darker than the flower garlands and communal feasts they first find. We know we can expect the unexpected from filmmaker Ari Aster …
Read More »“Not a Bug”: World of Warcraft Classics strangest fiasco reveals just how much nostalgia can mess with our memories
Last month, Blizzard launched its beta for World of Warcraft Classic, a legacy server which authentically replicates version 1.12 of the game from 2004. Its release follows years of fan demand for a vanilla emulation of the forever popular MMO, which has changed significantly over its 15 year lifespan, suggesting …
Read More »I love everything about Code Vein except for its combat
Bandai Namco has never been shy about Code Vein’s influences. It’s a third-person action-RPG sitting somewhere between Dark Souls and God Eater – two other action-RPGs in the publisher’s stable – but with anime vampires and lots of dungeon crawling. I knew all that going into my E3 2019 (opens …
Read More »6 questions we have after watching Black Mirror Season 5
Black Mirror season 5 has arrived, bringing with it a small curated set of bleak vignettes of the ever-encroaching near future. This time around the stories are more grounded and believable than usual, often not relying on some far-flung future concept but more toying with the technology we have available …
Read More »Destiny 3 leaks, rumors, our wish list, and everything we know so far
With the announcement of Destiny 2 Shadowkeep, it feels like we’re starting to see the effects of Bungie’s separation from Activision, and it looks like good news for Destiny 3. We shouldn’t assume that Activision was actively impeding or opposing the many promising features coming to Destiny, but Bungie’s certainly …
Read More »Designing the Dawn of X X-Men era: Tom Muller
A new era for Marvel’s X-Men begins this July with writer Jonathan Hickman’s Powers of X and House of X (opens in new tab) limited series. And with a new era, the team needed a new mark. Enter Tom Muller. (Image credit: Tom Muller) While Hickman is an accomplished graphic …
Read More »5 potential settings for the Game of Thrones spin-off shows, and the Westeros stories wed like to see next
Dread it, run from it, but there is no escaping the reality that Game of Thrones season 8 (opens in new tab) is over, and with it, the show at large. But don’t fret; not only is there a Game of Thrones prequel TV show (opens in new tab) already …
Read More »What happened to these 9 Game of Thrones characters that disappeared and never returned?
We understand that Game of Thrones isn’t so much a fantasy show as it is a knotted tapestry of plot threads, characters, and thematic arcs, so you can hardly blame HBO for dropping the needle every now and again. Even so, now that Game of Thrones season 8 (opens in …
Read More »Cuphead is proof that Nintendo Switch really needs an achievement system
Achievements in games aren’t for everyone, but they are (almost) everywhere. PlayStation has its trophies, Xbox has achievements, and Steam also has achievements. One place where they don’t exist is on Switch, and no matter how good the Switch games lineup is, or how awesome the console is as a …
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