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PSP Go

While Sony was no stranger to tinkering with its hardware, the PSP got a lot of attention over the years – the PSP Go was the fourth major iteration of the hardware, and the most radical redesign.

THE MAKING OF CAPTAIN BLOOD

AS HE TRAVELS THE HYDRA GALAXY IN HIS SHIP THE ARK, CAPTAIN BLOOD MUST TRACK DOWN AND DISINTEGRATE HIS FIVE REMAINING CLONES. TO DO SO, HE’LL HAVE TO COMMUNICATE WITH SEVERAL ALIEN SPECIES USING THE UPCOM, A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE DEVICE. UNIVERSALITY IS THE KEY CONCEPT BEHIND THIS WIDELY ACCLAIMED FRENCH CLASSIC

Datasette

If you’re going to adopt a common storage method across a range of computers, it makes sense to make the hardware as widely compatible as possible – and that’s just what Commodore did with the Datasette, known by the model numbers 1530 and C2N.

THE MAKING OF STAR TREK 25TH ANNIVERSARY

SPACE MAY BE THE FINAL FRONTIER BUT STAR TREK ADVENTURE GAMES WERE PRETTY MUCH THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY IN THE EARLY NINETIES. AT LEAST UNTIL STAR TREK: 25TH ANNIVERSARY CAME ALONG A GAME THAT DARED TO GO WHERE NO STAR TREK GAME HAD GONE BEFORE

THE MAKING OF BURNOUT 3 TAKEDOWN™

THIS IS THE REMARKABLE STORY OF HOW CRITERION'S DISASTROUS DEAL WITH EA TO REMAKE A CLASSIC SKATEBOARDING GAME SOMEHOW LED TO THE BRITISH STUDIO CREATING ONE OF THE BEST RACERS OF ALL TIME

PLAYING CO-OP

This month's collector isn't going it alone

SUPER METROID AN ENDURING LEGACY

AS NINTENDO'S SCI-FI CLASSIC TURNS 30 WE REVISIT THE PLANET ZEBES AND SPEAK TO DEVELOPERS OF BOTH METROIDVANIAS AND ACTUAL METROID GAMES TO LEARN WHAT MAKES SAMUS ARAN'S 2D ADVENTURE SO SPECIAL

ARCADE WRATH OF THE MUTANTS

A NEW TURTLES BEAT-'EM-UP IS FINALLY HEADING HOME AFTER YEARS OF DELIGHTING ARCADE-GOERS WE TALK TO EUGENE JARVIS AND MARC-ANDRÉ JUTRAS TO LEARN HOW THIS THROWBACK BRAWLER CAME TO BE, AND HOW IT'S BEEN EXPANDED FOR CONSOLES

Shaping your worlds

Jess Kinghorn chats with world-building masters from Larian Studios, Techland, HoYoverse, Billy Goat Entertainment, and CD Projekt Red about what goes into crafting your favourite places on PlayStation

MultiVersus

Welcome to the slam

System Shock

Nightdive Studios' swanky, ground-up remake of 1994's genre-launching classic System Shock is finally heading to PlayStation which should make you very excited if you have any interest in crawling through vents or bonking cyborg mutants on the head with blunt objects.

Tracking Monster Hunter's future

Ahead of Monster Hunter Wilds next year, two story-focused spinoffs come to PlayStation

Freedom Planet 2

Not so much beating Sonic at his own game’ as evolving it

GENERATION OPEN

From ambitious RPGs to sweeping adventures, Jeremy Peel unpacks the history of the open world from PS1 to PS5

Dragon's Dogma 2

Our heart has been stolen

Synduality: Echo Of Ada

Nonsensical name, enjoyable game

Planet Zoo: Console Edition

Radio the keepers, its about to get wild

Asphalt: Legends Unite

Quietly purring the engine, Gameloft has been making rather good arcade racers since 2004.

As Dusk Falls

In this robbery, no-one gets away clean

Visions Of Mana

Tree-t yourself to this mana-fold return

Shadow and flame

Why Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree is more than simple DLC - it's a huge new open world adventure that'll take over your gaming life

Punch Nazis

Twin-superhero adventure Marvel 1943: Rise Of Hydra looks totally Unreal

Rise Of The Ronin

Proof that Ninja Gaiden wasnt merely a flash in Japan

EIYUDEN CHRONICLE: HUNDRED HEROES

Spiritual successor to Suikoden promises an grand adventure

ELDEN RING REBORN

A Scholar of the First Sin-style total conversion mod for Elden Ring.

THE GOD FACTORY

A group of players built a record-breaking plant

BEST BEHAVIOUR

Donkey Crew's lead gameplay developer, SERGII GREBEN, on programming AI for NPCs

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004.

TWENTY YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE GREATEST FPS FRANCHISES ON PC PEAKED WITH UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004. REMARKABLE IN ITS OWN RIGHT, ITS STRIKING LEGACY EXTENDS TO ITS ROLE AS A PLATFORM FOR MODS THAT WOULD TURN INTO ENDURING STANDALONE FRANCHISES, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LATER GAMES, ESPECIALLY ROCKET LEAGUE.

JEDI REMASTER

DARK FORCES REMASTER is the classic Star Wars FPS upgrade you've been looking for

OLD WORLD BLUES

The beautiful HORIZON: FORBIDDEN WEST COMPLETE EDITION struggles to move on