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
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Has 300 Playable Characters
For an adventure intended to cover all nine films set in a galaxy far, far away, an extensive and diverse cast is somewhat to be expected, but we’d be hard-pressed to name more than 100 characters from George Lucas’ universe, let alone 800. That latter figure, according to lead hub designer Dawn McDiarmid, is the total number of heroes and villains that’ll be appearing in the ambitious title, and roughly 300 of them will be directly controllable.
It’s worth noting, of course, that a large portion of the roster will feature similar if not identical abilities (300 wholly unique characters would be nothing short of a miraculous achievement), but fans can rest assured that no inhabitant of