PLAY Issue 088 (April 2009)

One of the hardest magazines to search for was the two Play magazines, and trying to figure out how a website referred to them. Play(US)(from Dave Halverson) is this magazine, and though its stylized on the cover like "play", in the pages of the magazine itself it refers to itself as simple Play Magazine. Then there's the UK one, Play (stylized as PLAY)(from Imagine Publishing)(UK). They are not related, and published by two different companies. I like them both, so years ago, it was hard finding a collection of each. Future Publishing bought Imagine in 2016, and they relaunched PLAY magazine in 2021, but I dont know if they refer to it as only PLAY or also use Play (it seems BOTH are trademarked regardless). The Internet Archives site has both mags, but search results can be mixed.

The 2021 Play reboot replaced PlayStation Official Magazine UK after they shut down. The other Plays like you said have nothing to do with each other.