Oscar Taylor-Kent
Games Editor Oscar Taylor🐻-Kent brings his Official Play🔯Station 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, Official 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 &am🔜p; Knuckles or yet another Jakathon through Naughty Dog's PS2 masterpieces.
Latest articles by Oscar Taylor-Kent
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 screen🦩 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 limited 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 some reaꦦlly 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 sc🌳uppered by bad release timing, but this last hurrah for the series' golden era is a ter🌜rific 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 trad𓂃itional romance in Avowed, there is at least one character you can bond with during 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 your primary way to in♌teract 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 die𒉰selpunk mech theming is an interesting alt-WW2 twist, and I love how the roguelike structure makes each RTS skirmish feel like a tasty꧟ snack
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?ꦰ challenges you to fulfil the requests of those soon-to-be-seated, with incredi🧸bly chill vibes and surprisingly sharp storytelling
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 b🎃ack into the hunt, and it feels like the sequel to Monster Hunter: World I'ღve 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 up the best Monster games in the fran💫chise you ca🧜n 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 you to find the 46th roo✃m in a mansion 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🦩 Goro Majima – Pirate Yakuza gives me 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 together challenging battles with the data y🍸ou 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 Ro🐻llin' Rascal is a rip-roaringly fast 3D platformer that goes toe-to-toe wit༺h 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:൩ Tactical Takedown comes from Strange Scaffold, the certified dev sickos behind favorites I A🎀m Your Beast, El Paso, Elswhere, and more
10 card games like Hearthstone to deck around with
Feature The best games like Hearthstone that y🧜o✃u can start playing today
10 games like Terraria that'll build up your adventurous side
Feature From Starbound to Palworld, here's what to try next if you're a Terraria 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 platformer stru💟cture combines with some of the most expressive 3D platforming I've ever played to set i♔ts telescopic sights on the genre crown
10 games like Valheim you should play next
Feature From God of War to T📖he Long Dark, these games like Valheim carry on the Viking vibes and hardcore surಌvival 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 wi🦋th a clever twist – you can absorb and shoot out textures to change the 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 lot 🉐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 the story and you can choose their abilities
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 Playi🔯ng | You can take the yakuza out of Kamurocho, but you can't take the hours and hours of side content out of the yakuza
"There shouldn't just be one weapon to slay them all": Monster Hunter Wilds' director will put up with my hammer bro shenanigans, but wants players to have options
Interview﷽ Interview | Director Yuya Tokuda on reforging weapons, playing with fans, encouraging experimentation, and putting up with me: "I know that if you're a hammer main, you're a hammer main."
