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December 31
- Games you completely forgot happened in 2017
- Xbox’s 2017 highlights and what 2018 holds according to the people behind Gears, Halo, Minecraft and more
- The 20 greatest Jedi moments in Star Wars history (and yes, that includes the prequels)
December 30
- Taking a short city break in The Witcher 3’s Novigrad
- From Ripley to Wolverine, these unforgettable movie star auditions will make you want to give a standing ovation
December 29
- How Half-Life 2 set (still unbettered) standards for video game story-telling, with a hero who never says a word
- The evolution of Planet of the Apes, from book to big screen
- The 10 most shocking plot twists in Xbox history - did you see any of this coming?
December 28
- The minds behind Life is Strange: Before the Storm talk Farewell reunions, Backtalk challenges, and asking players to be more aggro
- What makes cinema's greatest monsters so scary? The truth is that they remind us of ourselves...
- Why I love L.A. Noire’s fictional influences - the books, films and TV that made Rockstars crime sim
December 27
- Why Braid, the indie poster boy’s magnum opus, doesn’t Blow us away nearly a decade later
- Game of Thrones cast on the show's legacy, keeping secrets, and whether their characters can survive the final season
December 26
- Forget the winter chills at Christmas with the 15 greatest beaches on Xbox
- The Fly at 30: Revisiting Cronenberg's body horror masterpiece and its rocky journey to the big screen
December 25
- Anything can happen in Formula One, as a wise man once said, and it usually does
- Smashing the fantasy RPG trope of the all-powerful potion: let's make games more realistic
December 24
- Get in the Christmas mood with the 10 best parties on Xbox
December 23
- How to become a YouTube star - what you need and how to do it (in 6 easy steps)
December 22
- Our personal favorites that just missed GOTY 2017
- 8 things to watch out for this festive season
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: American Made, Logan Lucky, and more
- Get Senpai to notice you with PlayStation at its most wonderfully Japanese
- Life is Strange is that rare, wonderful thing: A choice-based video game in which you are not the centre of the universe
- 8 Star Wars: The Last Jedi concept art images which show where it all began (yes, there's Porgs)
- Movie 2017 Year in Review: More superheroes, more sequels, and more blockbusters (but we’re not complaining)
- Stop making games into films – channels like Netflix are the natural home for adaptations
- Looking backwards is the wrong thing to do. Games are simply better now
- A year on from release, No Man’s Sky is what you always wanted, and then some
December 21
- It’s time for PS VR to offer us more than just great games - bring us experiences too
- Hotline Miami’s cleverest surprise is that it’s not a shooter - it’s a puzzle game
- The current generation needs more triple AAA games that break boundaries
- Screwing over friends and fixing up windows in COD: World At War’s Nazi Zombies, one of gamings best spin offs
- "I wasn't some hired gun who was just brought in to scream" - voice actor Ashly Burch on becoming Horizon Zero Dawn's Aloy
- Call of Cthulhu 2017: Play as other characters, contract phobias that affect gameplay, and everything we know
- The perfect game for the longest night of the year: here's how The Long Dark got Early Access right
- TV 2017 Year in Review: There’s no such thing as the small screen anymore - it's now easily rivaling Hollywood
- PlayStation 2017 Year in Review: PS4 Pro and a single player focus make this the year that Aloy built
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Bright, and more
December 20
- Xbox One 2017 Year in Review: Now Microsoft has the most powerful console in the world, it just needs the games
- How WW1's real life Christmas Day Truce is being honoured by the Battlefield 1 community, and why DICE needs to make it official
- The best movies of 2017 - from Logan to Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Microtransactions and loot boxes in video games - are they pure greed or a modern necessity?
- Nintendo 2017 Year in Review: Forget Zelda and Mario, Switch’s success is down to the indies
December 19
- Hanging out with family over the holidays? You need these 9 local multiplayer games
- From that Rogue One reference to Luke's laser sword, here's 16 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Easter eggs you might have missed
- If LittleBigPlanet sparked your imagination, Dreams will straight up set it on fire
- The best TV shows of 2017 - from Stranger Things to Star Trek
- 12 questions I have after watching Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Sponsored: Learn more about Star Wars Battlefront 2 with our epic video series
December 18
- The Last Jedi does more for Star Wars’ future than any other movie, precisely because it destroys its past
- Can we all agree that gaming's evil post-apocalyptic cannibal trope has to stop?
- The Last Jedi – What the world is saying about the most divisive Star Wars yet
- “We just want to do things our way“ - How Sniper Elite studio Rebellion is still living up to its name after 25 years
December 15
- The Witcher 3's Geralt is one of the best RPG heroes (because he's really no great hero at all)
- It's just too easy to be a dick in GTA Online, so why bother being anything else?
- Delving into the design decisions behind Dungeon Runs and Devourers in Hearthstone's Kobolds & Catacombs
- Forget the twists... the most daring thing Star Wars: The Last Jedi does is embrace the prequels
- Sex bulls, party pigs and testicle festivals - Far Cry 5’s gone kind of mad and it’s brilliant
- Prove you're no half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf herder with our Ultimate Star Wars Quiz (warning: it’s hard. Very hard)
- Did you know that games like Assassin’s Creed, Doom, and Bloodborne have hidden mechanics to make you feel like a badass?
- Horizon Zero Dawn’s Aloy encouraged me to go looking for my birth parents
December 14
- The 30 greatest Han Solo moments ever
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Xbox One review in progress: “Despite the problems, a taste of what makes it special breaks through”
- After 15 years, take to London's mean streets and ’ave a butcher’s at The Getaway – the grittiest and ’ardest GTA clone
December 13
- What story should Rian Johnson’s new Star Wars trilogy tell? There’s one clear front-runner, and it’s another prequel
- Rey's Force vision from Star Wars: The Force Awakens explained - what does it mean for The Last Jedi?
- From instant icons to scene-stealing sidekicks, 2017 was a bumper year for unforgettable video game characters
- "An often deliriously exciting adventure" - You won't believe what the first Star Wars: The Phantom Menace reviews said
- Star Wars: Battlefront 2’s Resurrection expansion might not reinvent the game, but it is a great foundation for fresh, future storytelling
- "We want to shock fans every year!": Konami's football boss on how his move to Japan will transform PES 2019
December 12
- 14 questions from Star Wars: The Force Awakens that The Last Jedi needs to answer
- The best Christmas gifts for TV and movie fans
- GTA Online: The Doomsday Heist – "Explosive set-pieces intersect with thrilling absurdities"
- Destiny 2's new laser-blasting Exotic rifle completely upended PvP - for the better
- 6 questions I have after watching The Walking Dead season 8, episode 8, How It’s Gotta Be
- PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Brendan Greene on its Xbox One launch, new features, maps and more - "we’ll have to work with the community"
December 11
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Mountains May Depart, and more
- Did you know Game of Thrones already has fire wights? Here’s what it means for season 8
- How Star Wars made (and then ruined) modern Hollywood
- 36 Star Wars: The Last Jedi premiere pics that'll make you feel like you were there
December 9
- This is how to improve video game inventory screens (sort of...)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Looking back at Spielberg's genre-defining classic, 35 years on from release
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: Dunkirk, Atomic Blonde, and more
December 8
- Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris Saint-14 Easter egg: Why a hidden floating corpse might be the most important part of the expansion’s story
- From George Lucas to Daniel Craig, here's 15 obscure Star Wars cameos you probably never noticed
- The best Christmas gifts for Nintendo fans
- The best Christmas gifts for Xbox gamers
- 10 essential Jedi facts that every young Padawan ought to know
- 8 must-see moments from The Game Awards 2017
December 7
- Mark Hamill on exploring Luke's darker side and playing the mentor in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
- Watch how to beat Sekhmet in Assassin's Creed Origins' Trials of the Gods
- Is Luke a gray Jedi in Star Wars: The Last Jedi? Let's examine the evidence
- Forget No Man’s Sky and Star Citizen: Is this the most ambitious game ever?
- Ex-Bioware writer David Gaider on representation in games
December 6
- Zelda meets Twin Peaks in... Falling Sky, the game you’ve never heard of, made by one person, and up for one of gaming’s top awards
- 8 well-known actors you probably missed in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
- Is it just me, or is the 'Martha' moment in Batman v Superman actually genius?
- Discovering the potential for Hazelight's A Way Out by revisiting Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons
December 5
- Single player Star Wars games are a dream we'd be wise to abandon. History tells us why...
- The Game Awards 2017: Death Stranding gameplay, and 6 other big game reveals we expect (and really hope) to see
- Meet the man whose job it is to remember the ENTIRE Star Wars canon (and what he'd change)
- The 50 best Marvel movie one-liners you should try and work into conversation
- 7 questions I have after watching The Walking Dead season 8 episode 7, Time For After
December 4
- The secret history of the Star Wars movies we never got to see… and one that could still happen
- Difficulty in games should never be insurmountable to the point where you stop playing
- A brief history of RPGs on Xbox - how Microsoft's console modernised role playing games
- 5 spoiler-free reasons why Get Out is the best horror movie of 2017
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Stronger, Brigsby Bear, and more
December 1
- Stardew Valley: How one of the best indie breakouts in years came from one fan's attempt to save his favourite game
- 10 of the rarest, most expensive Funko Pop Vinyls on the planet
- 8 things to watch out for this weekend
- Bungie’s plans for a deeper Destiny 2 are a great foundation. Now, communication is as important as content
- Far Cry 5’s Dan Hay on creating villains and making a shooter where the cultist plot could all too easily easily be a headline
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