Official U.S. Playstation Magazine Issue 14

Features:

Editorial: Great Games Are Getting Harder To Spot Easily (With PS1 graphics reaching their technical peak, Kraig Kujawa laments his inability to determine what's hot and what's not via the simple screenshot)
Letters (Fan cheer. Fans jeer. Fans are weird...)
Top 20 (What US gamers are buying like mad...this month, it's...wrestling...?)
Tomb Raider III / Ninja: Shadow of Darkness lid sticker (Hey, it worked for PSM...)
Lara's Back! (OPM gets to the bottom of what's ahead for Lara Croft in Tomb Raider III by talking to Adrian Smith, Operations Director at Core Design)
Crash Across Time! (How do you improve on the Crash franchise? OPM goes straight to the bandicoot's mouthpieces at Naughty Dog to learn what's in store for him in Crash Bandicoot: WARPED)
Welcome to the New Hollywood (Making a game requires a LOT more money these days, as Jason Rubin relates in this interview)
Quake II (The monster of PC gaming first-person shooters is heading for your living room...brace yourself!)
g.e.a.r. (Gadgets, Electronics, Arts, and Recreation--cool stuff for gaming nuts)
Demo Disc (What you'll see when you pop it in)
Next Month (Big Reviews Galore and Tomb Raider III on your demo disc!)

News (Everybody likes news, right?):

Sony Slashes Prices (PS1 drops to $129)
Nyko's Classic Trackball controller is coming.
Zombie Master Directs RE Movie (George Romero is signed to direct Resident Evil after his work on the Japanese Biohazard 2 commercial)
ECTS News (Crystal Dynamics now owned by Eidos, and the Game One channel goes live across the continent)
Metal Gear...Liquid? (Konami devs get treated to a rare bottle of Andiera Cabernet Sauvignon wine in a bottle with Metal Gear Solid artwork as a thank-you gift for working on the project)
Top 10 (Readers want Final Fantasy 8, Japan's selling the hell out of some SD Gundam Generation, and UK gamers are, of course, losing their bollocks over World Cup 98)
Coming Soon (Release dates for new software, so you can get extra pissed when your favorite game gets pushed back even further...)

Previews:

International Previews (Coming soon to a Japanese PlayStation near you!):

Reviews:

A Question of Priorities (Joe Rybicki explains that the devs aren't running out of ideas, they just support sequels because it's easier to make a sequel than to create a new property)
Metal Gear Solid
NBA Tonight
Colony Wars: Vengeance
Rogue Trip
NASCAR 99
MediEvil
Xenogears
The Unholy War
Moto Racer 2
NHL FaceOff 99
Bushido Blade 2
Kagero: Deception II
Motorhead
Rival Schools
X-Games Pro Boarder
Cool Boarders 3
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
Duke Nukem: Time to Kill
Running Wild
Review Recap (A look at past games, just in case you missed 'em)

Strategy (Taking games to school)

Tricks of the Trade (For when you just can't hack it without cheating):

Trick Archive (Cheats for older games):

Notable Stuff:

No, Mark W. Buckingham, you won't sterilize your junk by playing too much PlayStation.
Resident Evil 1.5 is now getting a release, some fifteen years later, thanks to a dedicated group of modders and programmers trying to jury-rig it into a complete game. Your wish is granted, Jolan Martinez.
The Nyko Trackball is awesome, but it only works with PS Mouse-compatible games. Just a heads-up.
Wanna see that Romero-directed Biohazard 2 commercial?

You're welcome.
A bottle of Metal Gear Solid wine mentioned in the News section above sold for over $250 back in 2008.
WWF War Zone is outselling Gran Turismo, Tomb Raider, Mortal Kombat 4, Resident Evil 2, Twisted Metal, Grand Theft Auto, Need For Speed III, Vigilante 8, and Crash Bandicoot? I don't want to live on this planet anymore...
This issue features a four-page ad for Rogue Trip presented in the style of GamePro, including editor Dick Biggs. Hilarious!
No surprise here: Metal Gear Solid earns a solid 5/5 discs.

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