Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League targets PLAY’s cover
Jan. 9, 2024Plus: GTA 6, Tekken 8, Apollo Justice, and the unmissable GOTY awards!
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PLAY #36 is out now! New year, new us – and the bombs implanted within us have nothing to do with it, we swear! After a bit of a delay, Suicide Squad is almost here, so we chat to the devs to dig into the development, plus take a first look at GTA 6, interrogateCapcomon Ace Attorney’s future, and finally dish out awards for the year that was. Who tops the list? Read on for a peek at what’s in store!
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Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
With the Batman: Arkham series done and dusted, we talk to Darius Sadeghian about building a successor that builds off the lessons Rocksteady has learned while also being fundamentally different. With a multiplayer and online focus, and plans for plenty of post-launch support - can SS:KTJL beat the odds to crack online heroics?
Last year’s games are still worth celebrating! With the whole thing behind us, we take the time to champion the greatest games that deserve a spot on your backlog. From heaps of bonus awards to spread the love around, to both readers’ and critics’ choices, the unmissable PS5 games are all here.
We’re in for a treat on PlayStation as Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy is finally on the way to fill in a big gap in the court record, bringing the remaining games in the series to the platform. We chat with Kenichi Hashimoto and Janet Hsu about these remasters, and how the series evolved through the fourth, fifth, and sixth games in the first place. We also ask: what does the future hold?
Vice City! Alligators! Dual protagonists! Viral videos! We dig into the return to the Miami-like setting many years on (both in-universe and in real life) as we look forward to Rockstar’s upcoming decade definer.
Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more
Also in Insider: Coal Supper chat Thank Goodness You’re Here’s comedy inspirations; ‘will COD descend into live service sooner rather than later?’; Lies Of P’s DLC, and more
One more round? Go on then. We enter the ring for a final pre-release match with Tekken 8, this time taking the opportunity to tackle the story and arcade quest modes and get to grips with Reina, the mysterious new challenger who looks to be taking aim at the devil gene crown.
We also tackle some early multiplayer as we go hands-on again with Granblue Fantasy: Relink ahead of its imminent, long-long-long-awaited launch, get chills from the PT-like Luto, test our rhythm in Bits & Bops, and more!
Ubisoft’s put out another big open world game – but does embracing the Avatar license give this one a more distinct identity? Well, yes, and no. It’s complicated, but there’s still loads that impresses here.
Plus, verdicts and impressions on Final Fantasy 16: Echoes Of The Past, Teardown, Resident Evil 4 VR, God Of War Ragnarök: Valhalla, Arizona Sunshine 2, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, and more!
In RetroStation we dial the clock back well past ‘one’ to revisit Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, the PS2 entry that was pivotal to the series’ modern direction. Plus, we dust off the ever-enigmatic Digimon World, take to Vaan’s defence as the de facto hero of Final Fantasy 12, dip into PaRappa 2 on PS Plus, and leave you with The Evil Within.
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Games Editor Oscar Taylor-Kent brings his Official PlayStation Magazine and PLAY knowledge to continue to revel in all things capital ‘G’ games. A noted PS Vita apologist, he’s always got his fingers on many buttons, having also written for Edge, PC Gamer, SFX, Official Xbox Magazine, Kotaku, Waypoint, GamesMaster, PCGamesN, and Xbox, to name a few.
When not knee deep in character action games, he loves to get lost in an epic story across RPGs and visual novels. Recent favourites? Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, 1000xResist, and Metaphor: ReFantazio! Rarely focused entirely on the new, the call to return to retro is constant, whether that’s a quick evening speed through Sonic 3 & Knuckles or yet another Jakathon through Naughty Dog’s PS2 masterpieces.
Open-world dress-up game Infinity Nikki is serious business – so serious its devs have already banned over 80 accounts for cheating: “We implore all Stylists to adhere to the game rules”
Hideo Kojima seems to be testing Death Stranding 2, but it’s not going well: “I fell asleep twice while on a delivery and ran the vehicle into a cliff”
Path of Exile 2 devs know the action RPG is “not rewarding enough,” so a patch is making Rare monsters less stingy and introducing “‘unlucky’ drop protection” for the truly unfortunate
