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April 30
- The Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts mixes battle manga action with a story inspired by video games
- I encountered Dragon’s Dogma 2’s Dragonsplague Patient Zero
- Endless Ocean Luminous is simultaneously too roguelike and not roguelike enough, and it only manages to capture the genre's worst problems
April 29
- Who is Bastion? The comic history of the secret villain who has been hiding in X-Men '97 all along
- An incredible roguelike and fighting game pushed one of the biggest companies in vtubing to make its own game publisher, and now hololive's buried in over 50 ideas
- Life is Strange devs talk Lost Records: Bloom and Rage's protagonist, story, and choices: "looking at the world is a big part of the interactivity in our game"
- New on Netflix: 7 movies and shows you have to watch this May
- 12 years later, I ruined my Fallout: New Vegas replay before I even started it
April 26
- My D&D date night turned out to be the cutest, most chaotic idea and you need to try it too
- 32 sci-fi movies that deserve a sequel
- The 32 greatest action movie characters
- Bill Skarsgård's new bloody action film is a great video game movie - even though it isn't actually based on one
- Joker 2 trailer, release date, cast, and everything we know about the DC movie
- This Kickstarter-funded JRPG already had me with its Octopath Traveler vibes, but is keeping me hooked with its Pokemon-style recruit-em-all
- I tried to turn this idle Stardew Valley-like into a nightmarish Palworld-style dystopia, but it fought back by bankrupting me
- The greatest strength of this crab-tastic Soulslike is in the way it differs from Dark Souls
April 25
- After 700 hours in Baldur's Gate 3, I'm playing Dragon's Dogma 2 with Astarion at my side
- Meet the Dead Boy Detectives: Inside the comic book origins of Netflix's brilliant new Sandman spin-off
- Steam's most-anticipated city-builder is set to make millions, but for Manor Lords' CEO, "I don't think the money weighs that heavily"
- Zendaya and the Challengers cast talk sex scenes, tennis camp and their unusual Pixar-shaped preparation
April 24
- Rediscovering the brilliant and brutal 22-year-old RPG that charges a ridiculous 1,000 in-game coins just to save your game
- The new Warhammer 40K Necron models are great quality of (eternal) life updates, but not essential
- darkwebSTREAMER is a "narrative roguelike" that interrogates the voyeuristic horror fan in us all
- Stellar Blade puts Eve in some incredibly stupid sexy outfits that hurt the game's story, but despite the forced sex appeal I actually love her detailed design
- Is it just me, or are concert movies better than the real thing?
April 23
- Deadpool 3 keeps dropping Loki Easter eggs, and that’s a really good sign for Marvel’s next movie
- Dragon's Dogma 2 has helped me tackle my anxiety in a way few RPGs have managed to, and it was completely unexpected
- One Piece delivers a rematch for the ages in Luffy versus Lucci - but Eiichiro Oda has always made it clear that the World Government agent doesn't stand a chance
- My favorite Spelunky character is a masterclass in roguelike risk versus reward: "Stealing in games is fun in the same way running across the top of the screen is in Super Mario"
- The Fallout TV show finally corrects my big game frustration: giving romance the focus it deserves
- The weirdest must-watch anime of spring 2024 is a trippy sci-fi story about girls taking a train through the post-apocalypse
April 22
- In defense Nero, the beleaguered soul who might just be the real future of Devil May Cry
- How voxels, pink laser death and a shred of humanity made this breakneck arcade shooter an all-timer
April 21
- Inside Bridge Command, a life-sized starship ready to propel you into space
April 20
- Inside Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, the indie RPG sequel with Mass Effect in its sights
April 19
- The Fallout TV show made me finally go back to New Vegas after over 10 years
- The 32 greatest Jackie Chan movie moments
- Zendaya's new movie from Call Me By Your Name director doesn't need sex scenes to make it the sexiest film of the year
- How to stop a teenage girl from playing Warhammer
- 14 years later, I'm playing Mass Effect 2 for the first time and loving being a total Renegade
- The best D&D module right now isn't even on D&D Beyond, and it was written by the creator of Baldur's Gate
- Botany Manor is a beautiful puzzle game about making flowers bloom in the most unexpected ways possible
- Rebel Moon Part 2 ending explained: your biggest questions answered about the Zack Snyder Netflix movie
April 18
- Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers, and all of Marvel's July 2024 solicitations revealed
- Star Wars Outlaws being sandwiched between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi is a stronger pull than the Force
- 20 years later, I'm rediscovering the best PS2-era Sims spinoff and now I don't even need The Sims 5
- Hades 2 already plays like a perfectly ambitious follow-up to one of the greatest-ever roguelikes
April 17
- The 32 top twist movie endings
- After 5 years away from the MMO, here's why I'll be returning to World of Warcraft for The War Within
- Here's how "the best Friday the 13th film" inspired a scrapped Dead Island 2 mechanic in a game that's re-flipping the script on zombie fiction
- GTA players are still discussing how to 100% this top-down classic – proving it was years ahead of its time at the turn of the millennium
April 16
- After watching the Fallout TV show, I've never been so ready to return to the wasteland in Fallout 4
- After 77 hours in Dragon's Dogma 2, I swapped to the least RPG-sounding class ever to grace an RPG and it was super weird
- I bought this Nvidia GTX 970 graphics card 10 years ago, here’s how it holds up in 2024
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
- 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"