Oscar Taylor-Kent
Games Editor Oscar Taylor-Kent brings his Official PlayStation Magazine and PLAY knowledge to continue to revel in all things capital 'G' games. A noted PS Vita apologist, he's always got his fingers on many buttons, having also written for Edge, PC Gamer, SFX, O൲fficial Xbox Magazine, Kotaku, Waypoint, GamesMaster, PCGamesN, and Xbox, to name a few.
When not knee deep in character action games, he loves to get lost in an epic story across RPGs and visual novels. Recent favourites? Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree, 1000xResist, and Metaphor: ReFantazio! Rarely focused entirely on the new, the call to return to retro is constant, whether that's a quick evening speed through Sonic 3 & Knuckles orꦆ yet another Jakathon through Naughty Dog's PS2 masterpieces.
Latest articles by Oscar Taylor-Kent
"We don't want to force one terabyte of data on the players": Assassin's Creed Shadows' tech director on the clever tricks Ubisoft uses to "go beyond" current-gen
Interview Interview | Assassin's Creed's Pierre Fortin talks about the h♚uge technical leaps from Asꦫsassin's Creed Syndicate to the jaw-dropping Assassin's Creed Shadows
After 18 years, I'm convinced Assassin's Creed Shadows has perfected the series' ultimate stealth loop – all thanks to its deliciously dense castles
Opinion Opinion | Assassin's Creed Shadows features some of the snappiesಌt stealth to date, and I ⛦can't stop going back for more
Best Black Friday 75-inch TV deals 2025: what to expect from this year's big screen sales
Deals Black Friday 75-inch TV ♓deals are set to return November 2025, and we're already building a picture of big scrꩲeen sales to expect.
Black Friday graphics card deals 2025: what to expect from GPU offers this year
Deals Black Friday graphics card deals will return this November, and while GPU supplies are li♍mited right now,🐷 discounts could emerge this year.
Assassin's Creed Shadows' yellow paint parkour challenges are a highlight for me after 11 hours jumping around the world
Now playing Now Playing | Assassin's Creed Shadows' use of yellow paint points towards soꦜme really fun parkour challenges
Assassin's Creed Shadows can wait – I spent 40 hours mopping up the map in the one game in the series everyone skipped
Now Playing Now Playing | Assassin's Creed Rogue was scuppered by bad release ti🐼ming, but this last hurrah for the series' golden era is a terrific dark eagle, and I can't believe it took me so long to notice
Does Avowed have romance, and if so then with whom?
Guide Although there isn't traditional romance in Avowed, there is at least one character you can bond with duringജ your journey
Baldur's Gate 3 has a new contender in this Steam Next Fest RPG demo filled with talking fish, clones, and very violent bubble tea
Hands-on Moves of the Diamond Hand elevates the humble six-sided die into yo🌃ur primary way to intera🅺ct with its strange, off-kilter, and utterly captivating world – and comes to Early Access soon
This roguelike strategy game puts you in charge of a dieselpunk alt-WW2 mech squad, and its Steam Next Fest demo is wonderfully bite-sized
Hands-on Grit and Valor – 1949's dieselpunk mech theming is an interesting alt-WW2 twist, an♑d I love how the roguelike structure makes each RTS skirmish feel like a tasty sꦯnack
This puzzle game almost made me want to talk to strangers after its chill Steam Next Fest demo got me hooked on organizing seating charts
Hands-on Is This Seat Taken? challenges you to fulfil the requests of those soon-to-be-seated, with incredibly chill vibes and surprisingly s🌸harp storytelling𓂃
15 hours in, Monster Hunter Wilds has relieved my anxiety from Rise – this really is my Monster Hunter World 2
Now Playing I'm pleased to report that Monster Hunter Wilds has brought me right back into the hu𒊎nt, and it feels like the sequel to Monster Hunter: World I've been after for so꧟ long.
10 best Monster Hunter games of all-time, ranked
Best List With Monster Hunter Wilds, now, erm, in the wild, we carve uꦺp the best Monster games in the franchi𝕴se you can play right now
This exploration roguelike has no combat, and just tasks you with placing rooms on a blueprint – but its Steam Next Fest demo is delightfully devious
Hands-on Blue Prince tasks ꩲyou to find the 46th room in a mans𝐆ion that has just 45 – oh, and its layout completely changes every single day
10 years after Yakuza 0, Majima's swashbuckling return finally puts a bowline knot on decades of character growth
Opinion Opinion | Across almost forty years in-universe, it's been an unavoidably long time since I had a solid hangout sesh with Gor🎉o Majima – Pirate Yakuza gives m🌼e what I needed
This looter slasher mashes up Remnant 2 with shades of Final Fantasy 14 and lashings of special moves, all in an action-packed Steam Next Fest demo
Hands-on Empyreal is an action RPG that has you delving into a Monolith for short excursions, mixing toᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚgether൲ challenging battles with the data you need to persevere
My dream Sonic game is finally real and it even has online multiplayer, except it's actually this "high-speed" 3D platformer with a glorious demo in Steam Next Fest
Hands-on Rollin' Rascal is a rip-roaringly fast 3D platformer that goes🅰 toe-to-toe with Sonic games thanks to how it embraces some seriously thrilling momentum
TMNT rocks Steam Next Fest with the snappiest, slickest tactics RPG I've ever played
Hands-on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown comes fr🅷om Strange Scaffold, the certified dev sickos ღbehind favorites I Am Your Beast, El Paso, Elswhere, and more
10 card games like Hearthstone to deck around with
Features The best games like Hearthstone that you can start playing t✅﷽oday
10 games like Terraria that'll build up your adventurous side
Features From Starbound to Palworld, here's what to try next if you're a Terrar♏ia diehar✨d
Super Mario Odyssey and Wind Waker collide in this expressive Steam Next Fest 3D platformer that's already an early GOTY contender for me
Hands-on Demon Tides' open world platformer𝐆 structure combines with some of the most express𓃲ive 3D platforming I've ever played to set its telescopic sights on the genre crown
10 games like Valheim you should play next
Features From God of War to The Long Dark, these games like Valheim carry on the Viking vibes and 🐬hardcore sur♏vival gameplay
I'm getting some good Banjo-Kazooie and Crash Bandicoot vibes from my favorite Steam Next Fest platformer, where you can swap water and lava to break levels
Preview Ruffy and the Riverside is a bopping, colorful platformer with a clever twist – you can absorb and shoot out t🍒extures to change t๊he world around you
Dying becomes a skill in this JRPG from the Danganronpa devs, and its Steam Next Fest demo is already Overwhelmingly Positive on Steam
Hands-on The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy shares ♉a 𝔉lot of DNA with Danganronpa, but is very much its own thing – with over 600 Steam Next Fest demo reviews and a very positive rating it's time for hope to prevail
All Avowed companions and how to recruit them
Guide Your party of Avowed companions will assemble over the course of t❀he story and you can choose their abili✨ties
I spent 15 hours clearing a recycled map I'd already explored and loved every second – Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is a greatest hits album and then some
Now Playing Now Playing | You can take the yakuza out of Kamurocho, but you can't take the hours and hours🦄 of side content out of the yakuza
