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Sony has revealed that the PlayStation Plus Games Catalog line-up for May 2023 includes Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Watch Dogs Legion, Humanity, and more.

Revealed on the PlayStation Blog, a total of 23 games will join the service on May 16, meaning they’re available at no extra charge to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members.

PlayStation 5 exclusive Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart headlines May’s offering, bringing the interdimensional adventure to even more players. What we called “a fantastic showpiece for the PS5’s power” in our 9/10 review is classic gaming fun full of wild and wonderful characters, levels, and weapons.

After Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope and Marvel’s Midnight Suns last year, I’m champing at the bit for more of the fantastic and challenging turn-based tactics that not enough games offer. So when I recently went hands-on with Shadowrun developer Hairbrained Schemes’ The Lamplighters League, it was like stepping into a warm bath. The alternate-history 1930’s setting evokes an Indiana Jones-like adventurer’s charm filled with fedoras and tommy guns, and that felt like the perfect backdrop for the mix of diabolical stealth and strategic combat I overwhelmingly enjoyed in this admittedly small taste.

The snowball of games delayed out of 2021 and 2022 has settled in 2023, coalescing into the most exciting games lineup of the decade so far. 2023, arguably, marks the proper start of the PS5 and Xbox Series X generation with Unreal Engine 5 support building and an increasing number of developers dropping support for last-gen hardware.

If you’ve come away from Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 and you’re looking for even more time with the beloved heroes, then look no further than the 2021 game. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (2021) is a certified underrated gem, and well worth your time and money. It’s not connected to the MCU, but it’s still got some of the best video game writing and voice work of the current (and even the last) generation.

GotG is the perfect companion piece to the new movie if you’re looking for even more action, laughs, and emotional vulnerability from your favorite space-based heroes.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom includes dungeons that feature a “wide variety of regional characteristics,” each with their own unique look and feel.

Revealed in a developer interview on Nintendo’s website, the team behind Tears of the Kingdom finally confirmed the game will step away from Breath of the Wild’s Divine Beast style of dungeons, which were criticised by some fans for being a bit too samey.

“We’ve made dungeons unique to their respective environments, so we think you’ll be able to enjoy the wide variety of regional characteristics,” said technical director Takuhiro Dohta.

The 1997 cult classic movie Starship Troopers by director Paul Verhoeven is a relentless war film that leans heavily into the spectacle and over-the-top nature of intergalactic warfare. With the upcoming Starship Troopers: Extermination from Beyond the Wire developer Offworld Industries, the video game adaptation seeks to expand upon the film’s chaotic and gory combat sequences for its focus on co-op squad-based action.

I got an early look at Extermination ahead of its early access release on May 17th and saw its unique blend of large-scale combat and tower defense-style gameplay firsthand.