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February 2024

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February 29
- Terminator Survivors: Everything we know so far
- The Bad Batch season 3 is further proof that animated Star Wars is essential viewing
- This tech noir survival horror game is like a futuristic Silent Hill set in a post-apocalyptic English city, and it all started with a feeling
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is at its best when it embraces its goofy side
- Xbox is expanding its multiplatform strategy, and it should have arrived soon enough to save Halo Infinite
- If a Star Wars FPS based on The Mandalorian can't get made, what hope is there for original creativity right now?
- The 32 best sci-fi movie uniforms and costumes
February 28
- Between Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, and Persona 3 Reload, the year of the JRPG is healing my horror-addled heart
- Is it just me, or have we reached peak drone?
- As Xbox moves to be multiplatform, PlayStation is dialing all in on PC
- Final Fantasy 16's Clive and Cid actors discuss the importance of in-person chemistry when working on massive story-driven RPGs
- After 29 years, the Star Wars: Dark Forces remaster proves it's still a blast – but fans already made the perfect FPS port for free
February 27
- How to start reading Fantastic Four comics
- Future Games Show 2024: Everything you need to know
- Pokemon Legends Z-A: Everything we know so far
- After Palworld, a new Pokemon Legends RPG is exactly what Nintendo needed
- Demon Slayer’s new movie hints at a Game of Thrones-style problem for the anime’s endgame
- From a chilling South Korean thriller to a Star Wars legend's latest, here are the must-see films at Glasgow Film Festival 2024
- Pokemon Legends: Z-A could show us yet another side of the RPG's history, building on what made Arceus so special
- Why Helldivers 2 is the best RPG of 2024
- Some want GTA 6 to go dark and gritty – but after replaying Vice City on PS2, I hope Rockstar hasn't lost its sense of humor
February 26
- How Ensemble's final game went from skunkworks experiment to part of Microsoft's biggest series
- Did Daggerfall Unity just give us the open-world RPG of our dreams?
February 25
- We're no closer to an exact GTA 6 release date, but is the incoming crime sim likely to follow its forerunners' end-of-year drops?
February 24
- Celebrating the most Obscure PS2 survival horror game with its creators: "Doing a teen slasher movie-style video game seemed like a good idea"
February 23
- The 32 greatest '60s movie characters
- Here's why Rogue One director Gareth Edwards could bring back that Steven Spielberg-like magic to the Jurassic Park series
- Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender's burning heart isn't Aang, but the wise Uncle Iroh
- Unveiling the Arcane Clash: The Legendary Mages set to join Dragonheir: Silent Gods' multiverse through this Dungeons and Dragons crossover event
- Starting a new GTA Online profile from scratch in public servers is more thrilling than chasing any open-world platinum trophy
- Bandle Tale isn't just League of Legends Stardew Valley, because it's an even more intricate life sim
- Olivia Colman's new foul-mouthed comedy has an unexpectedly nuanced darker side
- Halo TV show's Master Chief actor on controversial storylines and why season 2 is much darker
February 22
- Madame Web totally fumbles the character's unique and important comic origins
- As much as I'd love more, Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree DLC should be the action RPG's curtain call
- Exploring Balatro's hype, its ingenious twists on poker, and its mysterious creator
- Avatar: The Last Airbender season 1 ending explained - what’s Sozin’s Comet and what’s next for Aang?
- 3 years since my last attempt, I finally beat the hardest boss in The Witcher 3 and realized I'd been doing it all wrong
February 21
- The coolest and dumbest weapons and spells in Elden Ring's Shadow of the Erdtree DLC reveal: a machine gun, this stabby shield, and a really big pot
- The Nintendo Switch still has plenty of life left in it
- The 32 greatest '50s movie characters
- Dreamer joins the Suicide Squad and finds herself "smack dab in the middle" of Amanda Waller's growing plans for the DCU
- After seeing this Dead Space and Alien Isolation-inspired multiplayer survival FPS in action, I can finally move on from Friday the 13th: The Game's undeserved death
- This PS2 game might just be the best James Bond game ever made, and you've probably forgotten all about it
- How a story publisher-turned horror game dev duo is challenging the genre: "Horror in video games can be a trap"
- Granblue Fantasy Relink is what I always wanted from the series: a great RPG with no gacha baggage
February 20
- Selina Kyle joins the Suicide Squad - and that isn't the wildest thing that happens in Catwoman #62
- After helping define the modern RPG with Mass Effect and Dragon Age, BioWare legend's new survival game could thrive in a "melting pot of creativity"
- After 6 years, a short-lived free-to-play shooter is back with a $20 price tag and zero microtransactions, and I need the whole industry to take notice
- I played Princess Peach Showtime like Assassin's Creed and Red Dead Redemption 2 with a splash of Overcooked
- Silent Hill 2 probably isn't the game you remember
February 19
- Everything you need to know about MTG Fallout
- As Football Manager approaches its 20th anniversary, the abiding challenge remains the same: adapt or die
- Photo Modes in games are cool, but I wish they did a better job of mirroring the real thing
- I Heart Skull-Crusher is an underdog sports story - with a violent Mad Max twist
- True Detective season 4 ending explained: All of Night Country's biggest mysteries, answered
- One Piece's latest arc sees the anime finally living up to the legendary manga series
- True Detective season 4 team break down all the twists from that intense finale
February 18
- Ignore the yellow paint detractors – visual cues are great for games
- With flesh-eating elves and blood-sapping undead, Divinity Original Sin 2 is the perfect alt co-op RPG
February 17
- I spent 80 hours making the most overpowered JRPG party I've ever had, and then a secret boss kicked my ass for 3 days
- 10 years on, one of my favorite co-op games Project Zomboid is... not on sale, again
February 16
- The MCU Fantastic Four reboot needs to nail these five things from comics to be perfect
- Nearly 10 years after it first began, my unreasonable obsession with Nintendo's amiibo can finally stop
- The 32 best '70s movies
- The 32 greatest Disney movie moments
- As Microsoft looks to open the door to a wider audience, now is the time for an Xbox handheld
- The Iron Claw is more than just a wrestling movie – it provides an insightful look at masculinity and toxic family dynamics
- After almost 400 hours with Elden Ring, I've found the action RPG's hardest enemy – an innocuous, random teleporting knight who you might have missed entirely
- After 6 Baldur's Gate 3 playthroughs, I've returned to the choice-heavy game that kickstarted my love for RPGs
- After that Deadpool 3 trailer, I’m convinced that Deadpool & Wolverine will save the MCU
- Helldivers 2 isn't just good co-op, it's a masterclass in designing comedy games
- How one of 2023's best TV episodes proves Ebon Moss-Bachrach will be perfect for Fantastic Four
- This narrative adventure nails the early '00s era of internet forums and game communities
February 15
- Madame Web's biggest problem is that it doesn't even know if it wants to be a Spider-Man spin-off
- Unicorn Overlord's overlapping RPG systems and gorgeous art look set to fill the Fire Emblem-shaped hole in my life
- I've spent over 10 years trying (and failing) to beat this dungeon-crawling roguelike RPG that was made using cellphone internet data in a treehouse in the woods
- I've played Dead By Daylight for 340 hours, but a limited-time modifier made it finally feel like a horror game
- Granblue Fantasy Relink and the challenge of translating a domestic RPG phenomenon into a global success
- Tomb Raider Remastered Trilogy is the only reason you need to buy a Steam Deck dock right now
February 14
- The 32 best date night movies
- The star-crossed history of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson's romance
- The Decepticons get some fan favorite reinforcements in an explosive new issue of Transformers
- Madame Web Easter eggs: The Marvel nods and Spider-Man references you might have missed
- If you're a DM, this smart D&D setup will be a total game-changer for your next campaign
- 13 developers share the video games that helped them fall in love with gaming
- My favorite Baldur's Gate 3 NPC is everything I love about Larian's RPG: "I had no idea there would be Rolanites or a Rolan nation or Rolan empire"
- Inside the best horror demos of Steam Next Fest: "Gaining traction for your game is tough, no matter how strange and f*cked up we make them"
- Best video games for couples so that you can have a perfect date night
- How Arzette turned Zelda's biggest joke into something to laugh with, not at
- Disney Lorcana's new expansion proves that this isn't a flash in the pan
- Madame Web ending explained: All your questions about the Marvel movie, answered
- Madame Web post-credits scene: Does the Marvel movie have a post-credits scene?
February 13
- The 10 best LGBT romances in movies, ranked
- The 10 best adventure couples in movies, ranked
- Two of my all-time favorite Metroidvania games launched in the last year – and I've hardly understood a word of their stories
- A year on, I'm playing arguably the worst game of 2023 – and I'm actually enjoying myself
- Banishers Ghosts of New Eden turned me into a ghost detective and let me decide what justice really means in a murky world with hints of Vampyr
- Amazon’s new adaptation of a hit movie is a masterclass in how to approach remakes
- Splatoon 3 Side Order DLC rolls out a wacky roguelite dungeon crawler mode with shades of Nier Automata
- Deadpool 3 release date, cast, plot, and everything you need to know about the Marvel movie
February 12
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director teases Easter eggs that "die-hard fans will really appreciate"
- I watched in horror as the man who helped shape Dragon Age and Mass Effect got chewed up by his own survival game
- Persona 3 Reload's new Link Episodes are just what the long-serving JRPG needed
February 11
- In defense of one of PlayStation's most divisive giant cat-bird companions
February 10
- Kind Words 2 had me writing comforting words to strangers, but I realized I was writing what I needed to say to myself
- 12 years on, this PS Vita-exclusive action adventure game still one of the very best
February 9
- The 32 greatest casting choices in superhero movies
- Disney's $1.5 billion gamble is Fortnite meets Disney World, and it could be gaming's next big thing
- If you're bored of looter-shooters and battle royales, Helldivers 2 is bound to be your next co-op obsession on PS5 and PC
- This chill horror game about working in a supernatural call center makes me want a game where I'm just Giles from Buffy
- Shame director Steve McQueen on why his new 4-and-a-half-hour documentary is worth the length
February 8
- Mark Waid gives Darkseid his most badass moment in years in Batman/Superman: World's Finest #24
- I've been a DM for 10 years, so here are my 5 tips on starting your campaign right
- Silent Hill: The Short Message buries its most novel concept beneath layers of cringe
- Crossovers are great, but it's about time Godzilla got his own game again
- In one of the coolest RPGs of the year, former Blizzard and Epic vets use MMO and D&D ideas to tell stories meant to be made and played with friends like Among Us
February 7
- The 35 greatest songs made for movies
- "It's probably the most flexible franchise in comics!" Ron Marz and Jeremy Adams on Green Lantern and the return of Kyle Rayner
- Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's recreation of the famous Nibelheim flashback makes me extra glad the remake exists
- Palworld's big issue isn't its cruelty – it just has no sense of humor
- Everything you need to know about Ravnica, the setting for Murders at Karlov Manor
- Doomsday: Last Survivors launches music video for theme song with Emmy-winning composer Brandon Campbell
- In every way, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth builds on the bonds that make Remake so special
February 6
- Griselda GTA 6 rumors have persisted for 8 years – in the wake of the Netflix show, I really hope there's some truth to them
- The best games of 2024, so far
- Persona 3 Reload is my first JRPG and I'm fast-forwarding through all the RPG bits to get to the combat
- How Pacific Drive developer Ironwood merged cars, music and mystery to make a motoring roguelike
February 5
- How to watch Crunchyroll from anywhere: cheapest subscription prices, plans, streaming devices
- Love it or loathe it, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League deserves to be judged for what it is – not what it isn't
- 5 years later, Apex Legends is finally overhauling its systems enough to convince me to pick it back up again
- Suicide Squad wants me to Kill the Justice League - but there's another group that deserves it far more
- Tekken 8 players need to know about these controllers
February 4
- I'm playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time and it's complicated my feelings about fast travel in open-world games
February 3
- Nintendo reviving a nearly 20-year-old Nintendo DS game for the Switch is wild
- How the war began – the making of Call of Duty
February 2
- The 32 greatest 2000s movies you've forgotten about
- The best female superheroes
- 2023 was the year of the RPG – now 2024 looks like the year of JRPGs
- Amazing D&D map maker is like the Sims for Dungeon Masters
- I wish Palworld, Pokemon with Guns, didn’t have any guns
- Doctor Who season 14 release date cast, trailer, and everything else you need to know
- Beetlejuice 2 release date, cast, and everything else we know about the Tim Burton sequel so far
- The year's scariest movie has already arrived, but it's not what you're expecting
- As a BioShock fan, Judas' promise of influencing the story and characters sound amazing – but what will that look like at launch?
- Republic of Pirates is a pirate-themed city-builder inspired by Anno and Age of Empires that's due this year
- I nearly gave up on this mountaineering adventure game, but then I finally learned how to read its world
- Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum is a no holds barred prequel comic to Rocksteady's new game
February 1
- What a 64-year-old movie can tell us about Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
- Rise of the Ronin's martial arts and ranged weapons are going a long way to realizing my Sekiro meets Bloodborne fantasy
- The Metroidvania genre is on fire right now, and Tales of Kenzera Zau just jumped to the top of my most-anticipated list
- Erotic folk horror Somna is the sexy and scary comic you should be reading now
- Our first look at Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 shies away from what makes it a vampire RPG, and that has me concerned
- WWE 2K24 preview adds Ambulance matches and super finishers – now we wait on MyFaction
- Five essential cyberpunk horror comics for fans of Image's w0rldtr33