Official Website for PLAY - The UK's longest running PlayStation Magazine
Aug
26
Features
by
JonGordon
What would it be like to live for real in PlayStation Home? We investigate the possibilities.

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Aug
26
Features
by
Gavin Mackenzie
There’s been a lot of talk about short games lately, thanks to Kane & Lynch 2, but what about short game characters? Who’s speaking up for the little guy? PLAY, that’s who…

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Aug
26
Opinion
by
Ian Dransfield
Final Fantasy XIV will limit the amount of time players can earn XP. This is a bad decision, and should not go through to the finished product. It just shouldn’t. Here’s why.

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Aug
25
Features
by
Gavin Mackenzie
Paying to see lady’s chesticles in real-life can be an expensive hobby. Much better to pay £40 for a game ‘cos then you can look at jerkily animated, slightly polygonal jubblies whenever you want. It might cost you a bit of virtual money, but that hardly counts. This is why some games have strip clubs, gentleman’s clubs, pole dancing clubs, titty bars, call them what you will, and here’s the best 5…

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Aug
25
Features
by
JonGordon
This Is Vegas has been interned in the PS3 graveyard, so we wonder what better time is there to pay tribute to these fallen heroes of PS3 past? The ones that didn’t quite make it, we honour you.

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Aug
25
Analysis PS3 News
by
Ian Dransfield
A new advert for Yakuza sees the destruction of one of the game’s most famous areas. We think this could be the best step the series has taken in years.

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Aug
24
Opinion
by
Gavin Mackenzie
What lessons can Medal Of Honor take from other games if it wants to maintain ‘respect for the soldier’?

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Aug
23
Opinion
by
JonGordon
We choose the titles that most impressed us at this year’s Gamescom convention in Cologne

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Aug
23
Analysis PS3 News
by
Ian Dransfield
Chelsea manager makes comment about PlayStation when talking about football, we go wild and over-analyse it. Obviously.

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Aug
23
Opinion
by
Gavin Mackenzie
Close inspection of PLAY’s traffic data reveals a somewhat embarrassing trend.

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Aug
21
Gamescom
by
JonGordon
And so it’s goodbye Cologne. Thanks for all the beer and sausage. After four days in town there were plenty of games to see and what you’ve read about here only scratches the surface. Keep an eye out for Issue 197 of Play to see the full picture. In the mean time the games to see on the final day were a strong bunch

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Aug
20
Opinion
by
Gavin Mackenzie
Now, I’m not claiming to be some kind of impotent ascetic or anything. Far from it – in real-life I get turned on by stupid things like bus rides, doner kebabs and clouds that look like boobs. But in games I don’t get horny that easily at all. I’ve passed up on many a reputedly sexy game simply because I wasn’t turned on. But in my entire gaming lifetime, five games have made me feel kinda funny, like when we used to climb the rope in gym class. Here they are…

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Aug
20
Analysis PS3 News
by
Ian Dransfield
Yves Guillemot has been spouting off about Beyond Good & Evil 2, thus making us crave it. We can’t have it til it’s “perfect” though, so instead we demand the original gets a release on PSN.

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Aug
19
Gamescom
by
JonGordon
Another busy day in Cologne and another good day for Sony

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