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April 15
- The MCU Fantastic Four movie may be setting up all the pieces to bring in Doctor Doom and Mephisto with Julia Garner's Silver Surfer Shalla-Bal
- OlliOlli's creators on sticking the landing with their skating series on PS Vita and beyond: "My wife and I had become totally addicted to this game on the iPad"
- Alan Wake creators discuss challenges of going multi-platform and multi-project: "It's always going to be tough, but it's also pretty awesome"
April 14
- How this open-world puzzle game classic helped us come to terms with human extinction by tapping into our thirst for storytelling
April 13
- How action led the way in Final Fantasy 16's bid to reinvent the long-running RPG series
April 12
- The 32 greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger movie moments
- It's Morbin' time for Spider-Man as Morbius joins him for an "incredibly fun" Blood Hunt tie-in
- The Fallout show feels like an adaptation of a game that doesn't exist
- Civil War's Alex Garland and Kirsten Dunst don't need to reassure audiences with their new action movie
- As a non-Fallout player, I loved the show – is it time I finally took the plunge and entered the games' tortured wastelands?
- My obsession with the Stardew Valley 1.6 update changelog is making me nostalgic for physical game manuals
- I played the medieval city builder-meets-RTS game that has 2 million wishlists on Steam and it blew my tiny mind
- If Dishonored and Deathloop's immersive sim and stealth action makes your head spin, let me introduce you to this indie stealth platformer
- Horror fans may not want an English-language remake of Speak No Evil, but the trailer teases a different ending that could make it worthwhile
April 11
- After EA kicked it down Steam out of nowhere, indie crafting game finds success despite being "a terrible idea for a profit-generating game" according to its own dev
- The "infinite ammo, never reload" Helldivers 2 loadout has made fighting the Automatons so much more fun that I can never go back
- After 27 years, One Piece is finally going all-in on one of the manga's coolest ideas and a key part of Eiichiro Oda's unique approach to fantasy
- After 300 hours in Slay the Spire, the 1,000-year gap with its unexpected roguelike sequel is exactly what I need to pull me back in
- The Mandalorian & Grogu: everything we know so far about the next Star Wars movie
- I've had bad luck with AI companions in games, but Dragon's Dogma 2's approach to party-based RPGs might change that
- Here's what X-Men 97's most shocking episode could mean for Deadpool 3
- Fallout season 1 ending explained: Hank, Bud’s Buds, and *that* finale location
- 56 Fallout TV show Easter eggs, cameos, and references we've found so far
April 10
- Destiny 2: The Final Shape suddenly looks like the coolest thing to ever happen to the MMO thanks to a new Prismatic subclass and Exotics designed to break the game
- X-Men '97: All the Easter eggs, cameos, and references
- The 32 greatest '90s cult classics
- The Rogue Prince of Persia is an unlikely roguelike slant on the 35-year-old series from one of the best genre developers in the business
- A major character is officially back in DC continuity thanks to a game-changing issue of Outsiders
- The Joker 2 trailer reinvents Harley Quinn, and that has me very excited
- Batman spin-off The Boy Wonder is a "coming of age fairy tale" that shines new light on Damian Wayne
- The Finals Season 2 gives you even more tools to play your way - so we put it to the test
- Meet the Sims 4 modder who went from styling hair to styling mermaids, vampires, and werewolves for a living
April 9
- "I always knew it was going to be a bittersweet sort of ending." Sophie Campbell on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' epic 150th issue
- My latest Game Pass obsession is a vampire-punching action game that could be Red Dead Redemption 2's wacky alternate timeline
- As we stare down the Elden Ring DLC, I can't decide which of my all-time favorite builds to take into the RPG's Shadow of the Erdtree expansion
- The Constructors is a fresh take on city builders that packs immersive construction simulation, and you can wishlist it on Steam now
April 8
- 25 years ago, Dreamcast's strangest life sim stared into our souls – and then into the future
- Fallout TV show writer explains how Todd Howard and Batman helped shape an original story
- Fallout 76's new boardwalk empire shows just how far it's walked since 2018
April 7
- How a team of Dutch escape artists is charting its future by tackling the mayhem in its past
April 6
- How one developer tapped the Internet's past to tell a timeless story of human connection
April 5
- Space Ghost finally gets his due in a new ongoing comic series: "This is a superhero that’s like what if Batman fought crime across the Star Wars universe"
- What's next for Honkai Impact 3rd, the Genshin Impact dev's original hit RPG: Girl friends, aerial combat, and a "point of entry for newcomers" after 7 years of lore
- The 35 greatest Power Rangers episodes
- Dev Patel's new action movie Monkey Man is so much more than the next John Wick
- With Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2, Ninja Theory is learning from player feedback and past experience in its sustained push to challenge mental health stigma
- Elder Scrolls Online's big 10th anniversary update is an autumnal trip home for Oblivion fans and a worthy step forward for the MMO
- Sometimes unashamedly riffing on the biggest genre hits works – just ask Nightghast, a creepy budget horror game in the vein of P.T., Resident Evil and Silent Hill
- Ascend to stardom by building a film studio and producing your own movies in Blockbuster Inc.
- Valheim and Satisfactory fans have to check out TerraTech Worlds' amazing base and vehicle crafting
- EV2 is an epic open-world game with mech suits to rival Iron Man
April 4
- After 11 years, Minecraft's biggest MMO is tackling the genre's biggest problem: making enough endgame content when MMO players always want more
- Baldur's Gate 3 over-prepared me for Dragon's Dogma 2, but it's made me appreciate what makes both RPGs so unique
- Hellblade 2's combat is inspired by one of Game of Thrones' most brutal battles: "We wanted to recreate it in-game with full control from the player"
- My most anticipated Netflix show this month is like Stephen King’s Misery, except it’s actually based on a true story
- 6 years after its acquisition, Ninja Theory is ready to set a new standard for Xbox Series X exclusives with Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
April 3
- Blood Hunters #1 puts Dagger in the spotlight as she forms her own anti-vampire squad to rescue Cloak
- The 35 greatest monster movies
- Godzilla x Kong sealed the deal: I just really want the kaiju to be friends
- How Studio Drydock created one of the most memorable and welcoming farming sims I've ever played: "Good representation was integral"
- Rediscovering the 25-year-old console JRPG whose jaw-dropping CGI cutscenes I once considered the indisputable pinnacle of video game graphics
April 2
- Best Batman villains of all time
- The Best Batman stories of all time
- Kong has always been better than Godzilla – and the new MonsterVerse movie Godzilla x Kong perfectly highlights why
- 21 years later, the best Resident Evil spin-off game is still the most underrated
- Baldur's Gate 3 made me break my lifelong RPG code to recruit a character – and I'm not sure I can ever forgive myself
April 1
- Four solodevs weigh up the risks and rewards of creating games as a team of one
- After The Evil Within and GhostWire: Tokyo, here's how Ikumi Nakamura is breaking boundaries in a games studio "driven by passionate artists"