Official PlayStation Magazine UK Canned, PLAY Branding Resurrected
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The sole remaining official magazine in Britain has turned off the lights, as Official PlayStation Magazine UK is no more. The publication’s latest incarnation tallied 187 issues, with Returnal being the last ever cover star. Future Publishing shuttered Official Xbox Magazine UK in 2020, while Official Nintendo Magazine UK published its final issue all the way back in 2014.
Official PlayStation Magazine UK was, for the longest time, Britain’s best-selling video game magazine – but the emergence of the Internet (and, if we’re honest, websites like
Push Square) has resulted in declining sales. For many PlayStation gamers, including ourselves, the publication was practically a Bible in the late 90s and early 2000s: those PS1 demo discs were