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- April 30
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- Fantastic Four: Life Story is a generational biography about a family and how they helped each other survive
- Best Shots review: Black Widow by Chris Samnee & Mark Waid is a quintessential story for Nat
- Have you tried… playing The Matrix meets The Haunting of Bly Manor in The Signifier: Director's Cut?
- Marvel's Disney Plus series need to learn how to stick the superhero landing
- The Ascent drops you into a living, breathing cyberpunk world that is "completely seamless from beginning to end"
- Edge of Eternity takes inspiration from classic JRPGs "with all the twists and improvements that you could expect from a modern game"
- April 29
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- Meet Superman's biggest fan in Metropolis Grove by Drew Brockington
- Best Xbox Cloud gaming titles to play and take true advantage of Xbox streaming
- A conversation with the voice of your subconscious in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
- Storytelling is crucial to getting through crisis – as the pandemic has shown us
- April 28
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- How FMV horror game Ghosts channels an obscure Hideo Kojima game, and why you have to play it at 10pm
- Inside the spycraft, the cosmic drama, and the characters of SWORD with Al Ewing
- Where does Sam Wilson go next? His first Captain America comic book adventure may have some clues
- Best Shots review: X-Men Legends #3 has charming interplay and twisted humor
- Resurgence on Verdansk is now the best way to play Call of Duty: Warzone
- PlayStation Plus Collection game list: Every title for PS Plus subscribers on PS5
- Xbox Series X backwards compatibility explained: four generations of Xbox in one place
- Best Shots review: Barry Windsor-Smith explores trauma and grief in ways that he has never been able to before with Monsters
- The history of TimeSplitters: "We naively thought that EA are better at selling games than Eidos"
- Xbox Series X launch games: All titles confirmed so far for day one
- Best Shots review - Miles Morales: Spider-Man #25 is a milestone moment for the character
- Xbox Series S: Everything you need to know
- Games don't have to be prestigious award-winners to justify your time and money
- April 27
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- Best Shots review: Detective Comics #1035 is the strongest Bat-book currently on the rack
- For Halo Infinite to be great, it needs to embrace the franchise's love of Easter eggs
- Best Shots review: Damian steps out of Batman's shadow in Robin #1
- How Red Dead Online role-players turned an out-of-bounds prison into a working Wild West criminal justice system
- How Paradise Killer went from "Crazy Taxi meets Gone Home" to a modern indie classic
- April 26
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- How Hyperion becomes Earth's top hero - an interview with Hyperion & Imperial Guard writer Ryan Cady
- High-concept sci-fi connections with real human stories in Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word
- Six important Resident Evil Village details you've probably missed
- Apex Legends season 9 is going beyond battle royale with its biggest update ever
- April 23
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- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Flag-Smasher explained
- Meet the "menacing and beautiful" Original Hulk in Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters
- Who is Joaquin Torres in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier? The weird-but-true comic book origins of the newest MCU hero
- Why Destiny 2 players are upset about its new armor synthesis transmog system
- Marvel's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier's Isaiah Bradley explained
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Who is Sharon Carter/Agent 13?
- How to take part in the free global Naraka: Bladepoint beta trial
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: Who is the Power Broker?
- DJ Porter Robinson on the future of virtual concerts, from clubbing in VR Chat to browser-based live music
- Call of Duty: Warzone's Destruction of Verdansk showed the promise, power, and pitfalls of live service events
- Have you tried… using the power of words to battle grief and a dragon in Lost Words: Beyond the Page?
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition looks like it’s striking a difficult balance between modernization and the original experience
- How Call of Duty: Warzone season 3 takes its story back in time to synch up with Black Ops Cold War
- Best supervillain teams of all time
- April 22
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- How Call of Duty: Warzone season 3 draws from the best of Black Ops history for Verdansk 84
- Last Stop hands-on preview: A gripping anthology set in a supernatural London
- The best PS4 and PS5 VPN in 2021
- Best cheap PS4 controller deals for July 2023
- Best Warhammer 40,000: Indomitus deals - here's where to get the hard-to-find starter set
- April 21
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- Best Shots review - Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors #1 gives a kid-friendly take on the King of Monsters
- Best Shots Review: Mighty Valkyries #1 has powerful visuals but lacks charisma
- Inside The Legend of Zelda: Second Wind – the Breath of the Wild mod that's bringing new stories and regions to Hyrule
- Life is Strange: True Colors – How Deck Nine Games hopes to create an authentic and relatable protagonist in Alex Chen
- Best Shots review: Way of X #1 a haunting issue that looks at mutant morality after immortality
- Lego Luigi starter set - get the best pre-order prices
- April 20
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- Why Todd McFarlane loves inking artists' pencils (and why he does it for free)
- DMR 14, FFAR, and now the Sykov pistols: Call of Duty: Warzone needs to get its weapon balance under control
- Genshin Impact raids look more likely and more promising with every update
- With Lady Dimitrescu causing a stir, perhaps it's time that games got over their obsession with youth
- The Call of Duty: Warzone zombies containment event has been a slow, confusing farewell party for Verdansk as we know it
- Uncharted might be making a comeback, but should it be with Naughty Dog?
- Inside the Batman/Fortnite crossover event with Christos Gage & Reilly Brown
- Capcom's reliance on timed, limited demos are a relic from a bygone era
- April 19
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- Bringing Jessica Drew back to basics in Spider-Woman #11 with writer Karla Pacheco
- Meet Mike Mignola's new revenant hero Cojacaru the Skinner with co-creator Christopher Golden
- Who’s who in Mortal Kombat? A brief guide to every fighter in the upcoming movie
- Resident Evil Village looks to be pulling off its big action horror, but what's really going on in the mountains?
- Why Nier: Replicant had to be made, and why it's "so much more than a simple version up"
- Circular warfare: Lemnis Gate brings the time loop craze to the hero shooter, and finds multiplayer gold
- April 16
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- Guardians of the Galaxy go from misfits to bonafide superheroes - the inside story with Al Ewing
- What's next for Jhonen Vasquez? The cartoonist talks Invader Zim comics finale, more
- Hostile Architecture: Resident Evil's Spencer Mansion wants to kill you
- With Naraka: Bladepoint, 24 Entertainment says that it has "almost completely reworked the standard battle royale model"
- Have you tried… playing reverse Pikmin but with a mech in the magical Stonefly?
- Returning to Dragon Age: Origins feels like coming home, and it's helping me navigate through grief
- Resident Evil 4 retrospective: Why Capcom's 2005 action masterpiece is still without peer
- April 15
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- Marvel's Champions find a way to punch an evil mobile app by punching the company behind it
- Mortal Kombat 2021 giveaway: enter for a chance to win World’s First Ever MK gaming chair, mousepad, or phone case from Cybeart
- Canadian brand Cybeart collaborates with Warner Brothers to create Mortal Kombat Gaming Chairs, Mouse Pads and Phone Cases
- Who that mystery The Falcon and the Winter Soldier character could have been
- Open Roads takes Gone Home's developer on a star-studded road trip
- April 14
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- Best Shots review - Locke & Key/Sandman: Hell & Gone #1 is essential for fans of both franchises
- Best Shots review: Guardians of the Galaxy #13 provides a timely reset for these characters
- Best Shots review: Children of the Atom #2 struggles to push past the main story beats of the first issue
- By rebalancing Galactic Readiness, Mass Effect Legendary Edition has given me a reason to return
- What a Last of Us PS5 remake could learn from Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, and more to justify its own existence
- The history of Animal Crossing: How the series evolved from an N64 oddity to a Nintendo Switch system seller
- April 13
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- Batman's cast has expanded - meet all the new Gothamites
- Diablo 2: Resurrected is fun to play even if you've never tried the original
- Insert coin: the campaign to preserve arcade history
- Best Shots review: Tom Taylor's Batman: The Detective #1 is reminiscent of how blunt Frank Miller can be
- As Call of Duty: Warzone Season 2 draws to a close, it's become clear that Verdansk has reached its breaking point
- Godzilla vs. Kong: The making of a monster hit
- April 12
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- The Captain America story that inspired the most shocking scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
- From a new map to a more competitive meta, here's our wishlist for Season 3 of Call of Duty: Warzone
- The making of Clock Tower: "The most important thing for me was the stillness"
- Resident Evil Re:Verse is a strange way to celebrate 25 years of survival horror
- Oscars: 10 surprising winners, from Suicide Squad to The Nutty Professor
- April 11
- April 9
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- Justice League has big changes coming for Green Arrow - and new truths for Naomi
- Ahead of Final Fantasy 14: Online arriving on PS5, we answer your biggest questions about getting started in Eorzea
- Sharon? Zemo? Here’s who could be the Power Broker in Falcon and The Winter Soldier
- Grant Morrison looks back at New X-Men, and how it's inspiring X-Men stories today
- Shadow and Bone: How Netflix is building a fantasy series that wants to welcome everyone
- Have you tried… taking a crash course in level design in Loop Hero?
- April 8
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- La Mano del Destino brings authentic Lucha Libre culture to comics
- The Falcon and the Winter Soldier tucks Sam Wilson easter egg into Smiling Tiger reference
- Best Shots review - Batman: Year One is more inspirational (and influential) than Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns
- Inside the criminal underworld of hair trafficking with the new crime comic Snatched
- Unpacking the The Sims 4 Kits controversy and the community's crucial role in content updates
- In Resident Evil Village, Capcom mixes the old and new in a tall tale of Eastern European vampirism
- Don’t be afraid to turn down Outriders World Tiers
- COVID cinematic universe: Are we ready to see the pandemic on screen yet?
- The time Batman turned into a monster truck and 9 of the other strangest Dark Knight incarnations
- April 7
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- The art of adapting The Adventure Zone podcast, ahead of The Crystal Kingdom's OGN debut
- Best Shots review: King in Black is well-written and excellently drawn
- Best Shots Review - Avengers: Enter the Phoenix becomes an endless blaze of Phoenix-powered superhero fights
- After a year of silence, Techland is ready to talk about Dying Light 2 again
- April 6
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- Darkhawk: Heart of the Hawk a "gripping setup for what will happen next" for Marvel's Chris Powell
- Martha is Dead explores the darkness of life in the shadow of WW2
- The Reborns rebound for The Resistance round two, Uprising
- Magic: The Gathering returns to comics with two Tier One comic creators (who are also genuine fans)
- Best Shots review: Green Lantern #1 struggles to keep reader interest despite the raw potential
- Sony's disregard for game preservation is bad for everybody, including developers
- Star Wars: Republic Commando retrospective: How a prequel spin-off redeemed itself by rejecting all things Jedi
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- April 2
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- Black Widow's Kelly Thompson talks about Natasha's new city, new costume, and new mission
- Best Shots review: Invincible holds up as a modern coming-of-age story for superheroes
- Best Year in Gaming: 2007 is the year that the HD era of gaming came into focus
- Have you tried: saving your grandfather's cursed soul atop the Swiss alps in Mundaun?
- April 1
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- Home explores the real-life struggles of immigration through the allegory of superpowers
- Zack Snyder’s Justice League and Marvel’s shows prove superhero stories need to embrace their length
- Best Year in Gaming: 1991 is the year that the 16-bit era came of age
- Kena: Bridge of Spirits developers Ember Lab on stealing the internet's heart and making the most of PS5
- "I try not to think of it as a successor game": Axiom Verge 2 creator Tom Happ on why his long-awaited sequel isn't really a sequel at all
- Thor: Love and Thunder: Six Marvel Comics characters Russell Crowe could play
