Future shutters PlayStation-centered Play journal
A religious successor to the UK’s Official PlayStation Journal, it ran for 29 years
One in every of many UK’s closing remaining print gaming magazines, Play, has been cancelled.
In a transient assertion posted to its social media feed, Play mentioned it grew to become “with a heavy coronary heart” that it should direct readers that the subsequent direct of affairs of the Sony-centric journal will be the “closing” version.
The UK’s Official PlayStation Journal (OPM) grew to become retired after 25 years in Could 2021, with Future Publishing changing it with Play, a model modern publication with the similar editorial group however with out the respectable Sony branding.
Even because the rebranding seen the journal’s numbering reset, Play grew to become in another case the non secular successor to OPM, “made by the identical group of writers, editors, and designers.” It ran for 4 years, bringing the OPM/Play legacy to a end after 29 years.
“All of us like to play – however the unlucky reality is that sooner or later all video games should come to an finish, whether or not it’s since you obtained squashed by a rolling boulder, threw the controller down in frustration, or just hit credit,” editor Oscar Taylor-Kent wrote in an extended missive on writer Future’s flagship gaming location, GamesRadar+.
“That point has now come for Play as effectively,” Taylor-Kent mentioned, including that