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- October 31
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- Gotham War: Scorched Earth piles on the revelations but forgets why Batman and Catwoman were even fighting in the first place
- This indie horror game set in my hometown is scary for the most accurate reasons
- The new Loki trailer might have just ruined Marvel's best cliffhanger in years
- I'm a true scaredy-cat, but I still can't get enough of horror games like Until Dawn and The Quarry
- Silent Hill Ascension is the horror origins story we've always wanted, and its Telltale-style public votes promise chaos
- October 30
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- The Devil That Wears My Face is like The Exorcist meets Face/Off, and it's actually terrifying
- Bloober Team lead talks remaking Silent Hill 2 and "mastering the art of horror"
- The Royal Hotel director Kitty Green on why her new thriller starring Julia Garner is here to break horror movie rules
- Making Moria: behind the new book for The Lord of the Rings RPG and D&D
- Avatar Frontiers of Pandora preview: A beautiful, cluttered, confusing adventure
- 10 scenes that prove The Walking Dead is the most shocking horror comic of all time
- October 29
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- October 27
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- The 32 greatest Pixar characters
- I'm ready to be creeped out by these new board games for Halloween
- Halloween 2023: Your guide through the spooky season
- 7 ways that Netflix's Bodies is different to the original DC comic
- Why this D&D actual play series featuring the voices of Geralt and FF16's Clive is going to be the next big thing
- Hardhat Wombat is a delightful, "super crappy" puzzle game from the creator of Plants vs Zombies
- October 26
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- 10 best horror comic artists of all time
- The 32 greatest Samuel L. Jackson movies
- Alan Wake 2's minimum specs have disqualified my gaming laptop, and now I question the financial viability of PC gaming
- From Gone Girl gaffer to Oscar winner: In conversation with David Fincher's cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt
- How Cocoon's silent alien world found its voice with synthetic sound
- Eddie Izzard talks bringing the feminine to Jekyll and Hyde and moving Hammer horror into a new era
- October 25
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- Dario Argento: In conversation with the horror master
- John Carpenter and star Keith Gordon discuss Christine as it turns 40
- Oops, I've turned Baldur's Gate 3 into a soap opera RPG because I can't stop flirting with everyone
- DualSense Edge vs Victrix Pro BFG: Which PS5 controller should you buy this Black Friday?
- How Marvel's Spider-Man 2 gets to the heart of the character in a way the MCU films can't
- Playing Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria feels like Middle-earth Minecraft
- Five Nights At Freddy's post-credits: How many are there? Do they set up a sequel?
- Five Nights At Freddy's Easter eggs and cameos: all the references you might have missed
- I take my Steam Deck everywhere - here's what I keep in my backpack
- October 24
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- Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has such a vibrant open-world that I now want Insomniac to build a GTA 6-rivaling crime sim
- Wombat poo, Magic The Gathering, and a legendary roguelike dev: The maker of Plants vs Zombies is back with a game 10 years in the making
- Why Assassin's Creed Mirage’s Baghdad setting means so much to me as an Iraqi gamer
- Netflix's new anime series Captain Laserhawk feels like the future of video game TV shows
- October 23
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- Ravonna Lexus Renslayer: The Loki character's Marvel comics history and links to Kang the Conqueror explained
- There's a real-world Easter egg at the end of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 that I need in my life right now
- In my second bard run, I've turned Baldur's Gate 3 into a full-blown musical
- Judge Dredd must solve the mystery of Judge Hershey's murder
- October 22
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- October 20
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- Meet Spider-Woman's new enemy Green Mamba
- Loki season 2: How Victor Timely's new origin fits with the comic history of Kang
- 32 top movies that are all-time classics, but flopped at the box office
- Killers Of The Flower Moon filmmakers discuss crafting Martin Scorsese's latest masterpiece
- One Peter Parker haircut in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is a deep-cut reference to Spidey's best comic book
- Spider-Man actor on taking Peter Parker to darker places: "It left me exhausted at the end of every working day"
- Moonstone Island is the Pokemon meets Stardew Valley RPG I didn't know I needed
- Foe writer and director explain the movie's one big change from the book, and break down Terrance's motivations
- Who is Balder The Brave? That Loki season 2 episode 3 Easter egg explained
- October 19
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- The 32 greatest '50s actors
- Lords of the Fallen isn't perfect, but its flashes of Dark Souls 2 and Soul Reaver have lit a bonfire within me
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2's Mister Negative actor says working with Denzel Washington and Jennifer Garner helped bring his character to life
- Giant Robot Hellboy is a triumphant return for artist Duncan Fegredo
- Enter the Talking Angela fashion contest for your chance to win a share of its $10,000 prize pool
- Five Nights at Freddy's director details the difficulty of working with "high maintenance" animatronics
- October 18
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- Scavengers Reign is basically an alien nature documentary with humans screwing it all up
- Killers Of The Flower Moon editor says this is Leonardo DiCaprio's "best performance"
- Baldur's Gate 3 knocked my RPG halo off, and it's all Astarion's fault
- One early Baldur's Gate 3 romance choice put me on a chaotic and irredeemably evil path
- The 10 best Martin Scorsese movies, ranked
- October 17
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- These new Tyranid models prove that I was right to avoid the old ones
- 20 years later, it’s time to admit 2003's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a great horror movie remake
- Foe author and director talk twists, AI, and how they originally wanted the movie to be nothing like the novel
- On the Radar: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 – A deep dive into the much-anticipated superhero sequel
- Martin Scorsese says the "love story" is why he wanted to make Killers Of The Flower Moon
- Superior Spider-Man confirms Doctor Octopus' place as Peter Parker's greatest enemy
- The Starfield map is the one thing stopping me from living my spaceflight fantasy
- I beat the hardest challenge in my favorite Steam Next Fest roguelike without firing a single shot, all by repeatedly sacrificing a tiny samurai
- The new Invincible game is like playing your own version of the comic
- Loki season 2 proves that Marvel should keep embracing its anti-hero’s villainous side
- Is it just me, or is this the greatest era for animation?
- October 16
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- October 13
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- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is one of the most ridiculous JRPGs I have ever played
- 32 top actors who still haven't won an Oscar
- Saltsea Chronicles is a beautifully written narrative adventure that captured my heart and refused to let go
- Loki season 2 episode 2 recap and Easter eggs: A big reunion and more chaos at the TVA
- October 12
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- Viewers beware, you're in for a different kind of scare with the new Goosebumps show
- 260 hours into Baldur's Gate 3, I think it's time we give Act 2 the horror-loving appreciation it deserves
- The 35 greatest fantasy movies
- Assassin's Creed Mirage improves a 14-year-old stealth feature I didn't realize I'd been missing
- Start your engines! Image's Petrol Head is a high-octane sci-fi racer
- Well, The Fall of the House of Usher confirms it: Mike Flanagan hates cats
- How every Usher family member dies in Netflix horror series The Fall of the House of Usher
- October 11
- October 10
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- Loki director on working with Tom Hiddleston and how season 2 centers on the God of Mischief facing up to his past
- PS5 Slim is real and out in November
- Starfield's exploration would be so much better if I could hop on a Star Wars-style speeder
- V/H/S/85 directors on the supernatural, found footage, and what was acceptable in the '80s
- The best thing about Assassin's Creed Mirage is the return of smoke bombs, and now they're even better
- October 9
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- It took me 26 years to beat my all-time hardest JRPG nemesis, and now I'm both delighted and devastated
- The Continental director breaks down the finale, John Wick Easter eggs, and teases a potential season 2
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Redfall are two different kinds of proof that we need more vampires in video games
- October 8
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- October 6
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- Follow a more "fierce, ferocious" Matt Murdock in Daredevil: Black Armor
- How Ubisoft transformed Assassin's Creed Mirage protagonist Basim from evil to endearing
- The Exorcist: Believer – Why David Gordon Green and Jason Blum decided to make a new chapter
- Totally Killer director talks new Blumhouse slasher-comedy that’s "Back to the Future meets Scream"
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a cool, downright fun spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio
- The Exorcist: Believer director on the "magical experience" of working with Ellen Burstyn
- Gen V's Jordan Li is the most interesting TV superhero we've seen in years
- Loki season 2 episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Reunions, new faces and time-bending drama
- October 5
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- Comic book Loki is now the God and Goddess of Lies - how do they compare to MCU Loki?
- Our Flag Means Death showrunner talks breakups, reconciliations, and an "unbelievable" finale in season 2 of the pirate comedy
- I bounced off Cyberpunk 2077 three years ago, now I can't get enough of it
- My obsession with wind turbines might finally make me a millionaire in Cities: Skylines 2
- October 4
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- Just call me Captain Space Dork – Starfield's nods to NASA have let me properly nerd out about space
- Assassin's Creed Mirage looks grand, but replaying Valhalla has made me pine for Assassin's Creed Hexe more than ever
- All Baldur's Gate 3 needs now is a transmog feature so my party can be stylish without compromising stats
- October 3
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- I cannot believe Cyberpunk 2077 still doesn't have a flashlight
- Christopher Lloyd haunts an American institution as Spooky Night: The Spirit of Halloween heads to streaming
- How the passion for the series let Ubisoft Bordeaux take the lead on Assassin's Creed Mirage
- WarioWare: Move It is the Smooth Moves spiritual successor I've always wanted
- October 2
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