Official PlayStation Magazine #151

Official PlayStation Magazine - UK
Published by Future
Issue 151 - August 2018

News
> PlayStation at E3

Features
> In The Mood For... Fishing, The 7th Annual Hot 50 upcoming games (48 pages!) - including:

Previews
> (As per Hot 50)

Reviews
> Vampyr (PS4) - 7
> I Hate Running Backwards (PS4) - 5
> Reverie (PS4) - 7
> Moonlighter (PS4) - 8
> Yoku's Island Express (PS4) - 8
> Dark Souls Remastered (PS4) - 9
> i may play a game tonight are you (PS4) - 7
> The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker (PS4) - 6
> Fox N Forests (PS4) - 6
> OnRush (PS4) - 7
> To The Top (PSVR) - 9
> MotoGP 18 (PS4) - 5
> Space Hulk: Deathwing (PS4) - 6
> Slime-San: Superslime Edition (PS4) - 8 ( :wub:

)
> BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (PS4) - 6
> Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection (PS4) - 9
> Tennis World Tour (PS4) - 4
> Gorogoa (PS4) - 9

Other bits to note
> The cover features Cyberpunk 2077
> RetroStation: Prince of Persia (PS3)
> Don't Make Me Play!: Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition (PS4)
> Free gift: "The Games of E3 2018" magazine (68 pages of screenshots and artwork)
> Subscription offer: Get three issues for £5 and then ongoing rate of £17/quarter. Click to view offer
> Next issue on sale 31 July; includes a feature on Resident Evil 2 plus Dualshock 4 thumb grips and decals

I should really play Gorogoa

PostRe: Official PlayStation Magazine #151 by KK » Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:44 am

Thought the subscriber cover this month was excellent.

Expecting/hoping for something epic for Resident Evil 2 on the cover next issue.

jawafour wrote:> i may play a game tonight are you (PS4) - 7

what

Dangerblade wrote:
jawafour wrote:> i may play a game tonight are you (PS4) - 7

what

. I always make an "addition" to the reviews in these OPM threads, Db. On this occasion the focus was... Fisher 23:49!

NickSCFC

Why oh why does the E3 section have to be a separate magazine?

NickSCFC wrote:Why oh why does the E3 section have to be a separate magazine?

The news and the Hot 50 sections are in the main mag and focus on written summaries of the games advertised at E3; the additional mag is more screenshot-orientated. I guess that the production is set for the standard 116-page mag and it's easier to produce an additional 64-page supplement rather than compile a 180-page edition. From an advertising perspective the "double-mag" approach is probably more attractive than a "bigger mag", too.

PostRe: Official PlayStation Magazine #151 by KK » Sun Jul 01, 2018 9:09 am

Because you can probably get away with selling 2 magazines for £7 (a price they seem to do at least 3 times a year now) but not 1 bumper edition. There haven't been many issues of OPM that have gone past the 200 page barier. No E3 edition of the magazine has ever featured that many screenshots either, so you're also getting that. Maybe it's easier as well in terms of E3 deadlines.

I think this is also the longest OPM has gone without a design change. I'd probably hold off until nearer the PS5 though.

I've always found it strange why Future's gaming magazines for the past 10 years - with the exception of Retro Gamer - insist on being so narrow. Compared to the vast majority of magazines on the shelves, the dimensions are wrong. I think PSW was one of the first and then they all slowly adopted it. It's a small thing I know, but I've just never liked it.

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