Official U.S. Playstation Magazine Issue 13

Features:

Editorial: Who the Hell Am I, and Why Am I Here?! (Kraig Kujawa takes the OPM editor-in-chief reins from Wataru Maruyama and introduces himself)
Letters (In which readers note chest-size increases on box art heroines, rant about the difference between CRPGs and RPGs, and a wise guy brags about stealing the demo CDs from the store but forgets not to ask them to remove his email address...whoops...)
Top 20 (US gamers and their buying trends)
What Does ESPN Know About Video Games? (The sports news company takes their license seriously, and discusses their upcoming PS1 releases with OPM)
Madden vs. Game Day (The two biggest NFL games square off, with Kraig Kujawa as referee)
Bytes to Box Office (Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Doom, Duke Nukem, Wing Commander and more all headed to the silver screen)
Trick Archive (Classic tricks and cheats from older titles)
g.e.a.r. - Gadgets, Electronics, Arts and Recreation (Action figures, anime, and You Don't Know Jack!)
Demo Disc (What you'll be playing on this month's CD)
Next Month (Major Previews Galore, a slew of great playable demos on the disc, and more!)

News:

PlayStation "Next" Picks Up Steam (It's too early to know anything for sure, but PlayStation 2 is coming...we think.)
Sweet But Deadly (Developer n-Space is bringing J. Scott Campbell's Danger Girl to life on the PS1)
Lunar Gets Special Treatment (Because the Sega CD blew, Working Designs is making a new version of Lunar: Silver Star Story for the PS1)
Coming Soon (Prognostications for software release dates)

News - International:

Namco Unveils New Ridge Racer (It's none other than R4: Ridge Racer Type 4!)
The Show That's Got Character (The Tokyo Character Show was just held in Japan, where companies can display their latest licensed character goods)
Square Find a New Mascot (Chocobos are taking over Square! Aiiieee!)
Top 10 (What Japanese and UK readers are buying en masse)

Previews:

Xenogears
StarCon (never released)
Colony Wars: Vengeance
Assault (released in NA as Assault: Retribution)
Crash Bandicoot: WARPED
O.D.T.
Animaniacs Ten Pin Alley
Tiny Tank
T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (shown here as T'ai Fu)
Street Fighter Collection
Tomb Raider III
S.C.A.R.S.
Running Wild
The Unholy War
Pool Hustler
Global Domination (Europe only release)
Dragon Seeds
Big Air
Activision Classics
Apocalypse
Akuji the Heartless
Invasion From Beyond
A Bug's Life
Formula 1 '98
Metal Gear Solid
NHL 99
Warzone 2100
Beavis & Butt-head (renamed Beavis and Butt-Head: Get Big in Hollywood but never released)
Backstreet Billiards
Shadow Madness
Small Soldiers
Driver

International Previews:

Reviews:

Strategy:

Tricks of the Trade (For Cheaty McCheaterpants only):

Notable Stuff:

Art Truck Battle is so popular in Japan, it showed up as #1 and #4 on the Top 10 list.
Gran Turismo sits high and mighty on the US Top 20 list, trailed by Tekken 3, Road Rash 3D, Mortal Kombat 4, and Vigilante 8.
This issue has more game previews than you can shake a stick at. Look at that list!
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, given the way most game-to-film adaptations wind up sucking) we never saw a Duke Nukem film.
The game referred to in "Next Month" as 'what is sure to be one of the PlayStation's biggest games' is probably Quake II; the next issue features a massive feature article on the PlayStation version of the PC giant.

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