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- May 31
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- Square Enix to feature cat-men, screaming elves and caped gunslingers in Heroes of Ruin for 3DS
- Call of Duty Elite officially announced: Socially-networks your CoD, is a lot like Bungie.net but with paid-for content
- Insidious producer talks about possible sequel
- Tweets Of The Week
- Rumoured PSP2 name change sounds like a biscuit
- Angelina Jolie discusses her take on Cleopatra
- First StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm cinematic teaser and 40 new screens
- Toni Collette re-teaming with Muriel director for Mental
- Tim Burton says Dark Shadows wont be in 3D
- The Hobbit titles and release dates announced
- The Two Hobbit Films Now Have Names
- May 30
- May 29
- May 28
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- Bradley Cooper is working on the Hyperion script
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt's cancer comedy 50/50 gets a trailer
- Orlando Bloom will return for The Hobbit
- Mortal Kombat: First DLC to feature klassic character skins and fatalities
- Hulk Hogan's Main Event launching Superhero comeback on Kinect
- Respawn Entertainment hires Star Wars artist for upcoming mystery title
- Kaos releases Homefront Xbox 360 update, details plans for DLC and free gear
- Dragon Age II designer addresses criticisms, drops DLC hints
- May 27
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- House of the Dead: OVERKILL Extended Cut heading to PS3. Goregasm!
- Here Comes The Fades
- Advert for an advert, anyone? Screens from upcoming trailer confirm stunningly-rendered desks for Tomb Raider reboot!
- NintendoTV gets the inside scoop on Dead or Alive: Dimensions
- Alphas Is More Like House Than Heroes, Says Creator
- Uncharted adap loses director David O Russell
- Albert Hughes wont direct live-action Akira remake
- First image from Pixars Brave
- Uncharted movie loses David O. Russell in utterly unsurprising twist
- The bits you didn't see in Portal 2
- BurgerTime World Tour's trailer and website whet our retro appetites
- Download the Portal 2 soundtrack for free
- Konami announce new flight sim, Birds of Steel
- Ubisoft's E3 lineup detailed with web-streaming locations
- This. Is. SHINOBI!
- Double Fine's 'Trenched' double-timing it to XBLA on June 22
- New Disney Universe looks like Sackboy with mouse ears
- First Assassin's Creed Revelations trailer and screens have shocking, um... revelations
- New Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D trailer shows off all the new features
- May 26
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- Syndicate reboot still unannounced, but here's some of the script. Maybe. Though we hope not...
- George Clooney gets angsty in The Descendants trailer
- Shark Night 3D trailer swims in
- Torchwood: Miracle Day Not A Reboot Says Russell T Davies
- SFX SPECIAL The Ultimate Guide To Anime
- Ron Howard dishes details on The Dark Tower delay
- Why Harry Potters 3D Will Be Different
- True Blood Season Four: Identity Crises For All
- Jeff Bridges confirmed for comic adap R.I.P.D.
- Doug Liman added to The Wolverine directors shortlist
- Bill Nighy signs up for Total Recall reboot
- Infinity Blade multiplayer proves it’s the most gamer-loving game on iPhone
- Sonic Generations and Shinobi confirmed for 3DS
- Retro BioShock Infinite posters are an old fashioned tease
- Don't panic: Hothead developing new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game
- Xbox Live experiencing technical difficulties
- Deathspank returning to deliver swift, salty justice in "Deathspank: The Baconing"
- May 25
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- Two injured on set of The Hobbit
- Keanu Reeves discusses 47 Ronin
- Soon You Will Really Be Able To Play A Game Of Thrones
- Director Matthew Vaughn On X-Men: First Class Sequel
- Let Me In Director Plans A Frankenstein Endevor
- Matthew Vaughn talks X-Men First Class sequel ideas
- Matt Reeves making Frankenstein prequel This Dark Endeavour
- Vin Diesel taking pay cut to star in Riddick 3?
- Update: TooManyGames responds to Howard Stern's gamer rant
- Mortal Kombat: How to make a Fatality
- Gangs of London getting film adaptation (finally!....?)
- Altman be praised! Dead Space 2 receiving free multiplayer DLC
- May 24
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- Supernatural To Go All Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
- Phoenix Wright movie coming from the director of Ichi the Killer and Audition? Human minds are unprepared for this wonder
- Takashi Miike adapting video game Phoenix Wright?
- Tuesday Link-A-Mania
- The Little Mermaid to be reimagined by Sony
- The Muppets Movie gets a first teaser trailer
- Screenwriter Roberto Orci discusses Star Trek 2
- Modern Warfare 3 footage debuts in new trailer
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations locations revealed
- Sony announces PSP Remaster series for PS3
- Sony reports $3.2B annual loss, $171M spent on fixing PSN problems
- European Ocarina of Time 3D special editions to come bundled with ocarina?
- Fox News debates government funding for artistic games
- The Penguin set to nest in Batman: Arkham City
- L.A. Noire sells 1.6m in first week, becomes fastest-selling new IP in the UK
- May 23
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- World's unluckiest man fails second attempt at Q*bert world record, 54 hours in. Third time lucky? (Please!)
- Dead Island: 11 minutes of solid gameplay looks like a better, gorier, undead Far Cry 2. With excellent skull-splatting combat
- Benedict Cumberbatch will appear in The Hobbit
- The pre-E3 surprise the whole world was hoping for... Or, er, a new Carmageddon, anyone?
- Come to our SFX panel at London MCM Expo!
- Pirates 4 sails in to steal box office gold
- Cannes 2011: Tree Of Life wins the Palme dOr
- Batman: Arkham City features a new voice for Harley Quinn
- May 22
- May 21
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- A third trailer for Green Lantern arrives online
- Transformers: Dark of the Moon scores a new full-length trailer
- Matthew Modine and Tom Conti join The Dark Knight Rises cast
- Reviewer slams Conduit 2, developer retaliates with negative Amazon book reviews
- GameStop announces vague CoD: Modern Warfare 3 pre-order bonus
- Microsoft offers students free 360s with Windows 7 PCs
- Grand Fantasia prize pack
- Fallout: New Vegas's Honest Hearts DLC incompatible with some save files
- Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One release date, box art and pre-order bonuses revealed
- Rapture-proof your iPhone with a chic Pip-Boy 3000 case
- Gears of War 3 campaign teaser trailer has precious seconds of story info
- May 20
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- First image of Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises
- Exclusive: The first Batman Live trailer arrives
- Vincenzo Natalis Neuromancer to film in early 2012
- Carrie remake is in the works
- Adam McKay dishes on football comedy Three Mississippi
- Doctor Who "The Impossible Astronaut" Most Recorded UK Show Ever
- New Duke Nukem Forever history trailer recounts Duke's 3D transition
- Ocarina of Time 3D artwork livens up slow news day
- BioWare and Ubisoft clean up at the 2nd Annual Canadian Videogame Awards
- TT Games announces LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, NGP version included
- New book provides comprehensive guide to graphic-adventure genre
- May 19
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- Cannes 2011: Von Trier banned from fest
- Kevin James' Zookeeper gets a new trailer and poster
- James Franco joins Stephen Elliots Cherry
- New Shadows of the Damned trailer is awesome, not particularly subtle
- Bridesmaids sequel could be on the way
- Ian McKellen to catch The Curse Of The Buxom Strumpet
- James Cameron and Michael Bay talk about the future of 3D
- Todd Phillips confirms hed be interested in Hangover 3
- Stephen Fry joins The Hobbit
- First Jennifer Lawrence Hunger Games image revealed
- Stephen Fry Cast In The Hobbit
- PSN hit by password-update exploit
- Monster Hunter Dynamic Hunting revealed for iPhone
- 'Films as Cartridges' image collection is obvious, charming
- Video Games Get Arty asks: 'What if games got arty?'
- Major Nelson wants you to download games like a pirate...
- Gears of War: The Board Game coming this fall
- Mass Effect 3 will reward completionists with better ending
- Guardian Heroes XBLA remake finally has a trailer
- May 18
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- Meet Pat Mills and SFX at London MCM Expo
- Misha Collinss New Web Series: Divine - Teaser Trailer
- Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg re-teaming for Turkey Bowl
- Michelle Williams is Glinda in Oz The Great And Powerful
- Keanu Reeves walks away from Akira adaptation
- Joel Edgerton is Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby
- Armie Hammer will saddle up as the Lone Ranger
- Gotham City Impostors art doesn't take itself too seriously
- Geoff Keighley's 'The Final Hours of Portal 2' now available on Steam
- Official Modern Warfare 3 reveal coming next week, supposed pre-order poster leaked
- Satirical game-development novel Am So As launches for Kindle
- Dead Island in-game trailer is a tease
- May 17
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- Survey teases potential Hitman: Absolution box art
- First LA Noire DLC detailed in Best Buy flier
- The Creative Assembly working on new Total War title
- Robert Carlyle Is Rumpelstiltskin No, Really - He Is
- Robotic engineer builds Portal 2 Personality Core replicas
- Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane to reboot The Flintstones
- Michael Mann heading into battle with Agincourt
- Cannes 2011: Neil LaBute talks Crooked House
- Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin gets a teaser trailer
- European PSN 'Welcome Back' package detailed
- Universal considering picking up Arabian Knights
- Tim Burton no longer making Maleficent for Disney
- Tuesday Link-A-Mania
- First official poster for The Muppets unveiled
- Duke Nukem Forever demo comes June 3 according to sly new trailer
- PSN restoration questions answered in FAQ, 'Welcome Back' package detailed
- Gears of War 3 collector's editions detailed
- Cannes 2011: Elisabeth Olsen on Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Cannes 2011: Brad Pitt talks The Tree Of Life
- Gotham City Impostors revealed, is a Batman-themed FPS from the creators of FEAR
- Mass Effect 3 will include same-sex male relationships
- Rockstar offers online preview of L.A. Noire's remixed soundtrack
- Capcom Arcade updated with gems, ghouls, ghosts
- Ubisoft Motion Pictures prepping 3D Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon films
- PSN back up, then down, now up again
- May 16
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- Tweets Of The Week
- Cannes 2011: Snowtown reaction
- Hugh Bonneville to star as Captain Nemo in Leagues 'sequel'
- The Dark Tower Still Going Ahead At Universal
- Cannes 2011: The Tree Of Life first reaction
- Angelina Jolie's In the Land of Blood and Honey picked up
- Chris Hemsworth confirmed for Snow White And The Huntsman
- Cannes 2011: Michael Fassbender is a vampire
- Monday Link-A-Mania
- Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan join Byzantium
- Thor triumphs at box office again
- Cannes 2011: Jessica Chastain on The Tree Of Life
- Cannes 2011: Gemma Arterton gets a Crooked House
- May 15
- May 14
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- Cannes 2011: Johnny Depp talks Pirates
- Cannes 2011: Unlawful Killing sparks controversy
- GR’s weekend giveaway: Ten copies of The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky for PSP
- V, No Ordinary Family, The Event Cancelled; Once Upon A Time Greenlit
- Cannes 2011: Monsters sequel on the way
- Cannes 2011: Weinstein's pick up The Iron Lady
- Modern Warfare 3 officially confirmed with trailer (UPDATED with three more trailers)
- Stephen Merchant surprised by fan response to Portal 2, found voicing Wheatley 'exhausting'
- Disgaea 4 promises to make your manliest fantasies come true
- XBL title promises 10 Amazingly Awful Games, delivers
- Cannes 2011: Armie Hammer signs on for 2:22
- Howard Stern lays audio smackdown on gamers
- Cannes 2011: Cillian Murphy meets Wayfaring Strangers
- May 13
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- Witcher 2 sparks debate over mandatory ratings
- Mortal Kombat makes April its bitch, leads big month for US gaming
- Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro to sail gently down the stream
- The Pied Piper set to dance onto cinema screens
- Jackson Rathbone is The Idiot
- Megaton Modern Warfare 3 leak hits the internet, nukes every fact and secret about the game, its story and settings
- Cannes 2011: Emily Browning on Sleeping Beauty
- Terminator 5 Takes Another Step Towards Reality
- Jonathan Levine will helm book adap Legend
- Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olson are Very Good Girls
- Cannes 2011: Scorsese and Von Trier team up
- Friday Link-A-Mania
- Warehouse 13 To Spawn Steampunk Spin-Off Starring HG Wells
- Andrew Niccol back on Stephenie Meyers The Host
- Alex Pettyfer signs on to stripper film Magic Mike
- First shot of Ian McKellen as Gandalf in The Hobbit
- NBC: No To Wonder Woman, Yes To Awake & Grimm
- New Darkness 2 screens released, voice cast may include Nolan North
- Square Enix posts dire forecast: revenue losses, unspecified cancellations
- Navy announces anti-pirate MMO
- New Alien game coming from Total War developer
- Cannes 2011: Restless first reaction
- Cannes 2011: Polisse reaction
- First three Dragon Quest games get Wii release in Japan
- Tales of Grace F confirmed for North American 2012 release, Tales of the Abyss for 3DS also incoming
- Cannes 2011: We Need To Talk About Kevin first reaction
- CGI Tekken film 'Tekken: Blood Vengeance' coming summer 2011
- Mortal Kombat Kollection koming kwickly, ket ko karrive kin "kate kummer"
- Cannes 2011: Kung Fu Panda returns to the Riviera
- May 12
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- Jack Black will Bailout Michael Winterbottom
- Cannes 2011: Super 8 first look reaction!
- Walken, Rockwell and Rourke join Farrell in Seven Psychopaths
- Bill Hader will cameo in Men In Black III
- Terminator rights could get bought by Indie financier
- Matthew McConaughey enrols at The Dallas Buyers Club
- New Torchwood Pics
- Cannes 2011: Britain gets A Prophet with Feltham
- Cannes 2011: Colin Firth and Emily Blunt team up
- Horrible Bosses trailer online
- Atari 2600 remake arrives on Xbox Live Arcade today
- Cannes 2011: Sleeping Beauty first reaction
- Ace Combat: Assault Horizon trailer reveals October release date, shark-themed nemesis
- Fresh images for Japanese LA Noire release
- Crush3D announced for the 3DS
- Fallout: New Vegas gets wild in Honest Hearts DLC trailer and screenshots
- Zynga launching Lady Gaga-themed FarmVille spin-off, GagaVille
- May 11
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- Woody Harrelson wins a role in The Hunger Games
- LA Noire launch trailer teases us one last time
- Cannes 2011: Puss In Boots hits the Croisette
- Ethan Hawke joining Colin Farrell in Total Recall remake
- Cannes 2011: Midnight In Paris reaction
- Cannes 2011: Jason Statham's Killer Elite heading to the US
- Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber trading blows in The Bleeder
- Hugo Weaving will return to Middle Earth for The Hobbit
- Barry Sonnenfeld directing Dominion Dinosaurs Vs Aliens
- Wednesday Link-A-Mania
- Rachel Weisz bound for The Bourne Legacy
- Aaron Eckhart and Sean Bean sign on for Pan
- New Real Steel trailer online
- JJ Abrams Pilot Picked Up For A Series
- SpyParty early-access beta now open to applicants
- Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D teased with viral video
- Hitman: Absolution's barcode belongs to a bag for dildos (seriously)
- Anonymous fires back at Sony and media accusations
- Blizzard to boost production of WoW expansions
- Dinosaurs Versus Aliens
- Uncharted's Nolan North “will burn someone's house down” if the movie is bad
- Hitman: Absolution officially announced for 2012 with painfully vague teaser
- Crysis 2 'Retaliation Pack' dated for May 17th, teaser trailer makes us want to go clubbing
- May 10
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- New Alan Wake won't be a direct sequel or DLC
- Madman genius converts hundreds of classic Gamecube and Wii screens into tearfully beautiful 3D, gives 3DS new purpose
- Takers director could helm 3D Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- The Hobbit: Hugo Weaving Back As Elrond - Official
- Brett Ratner follows 39 Clues to next directing gig
- Darren Aronofsky could direct Human Nature next
- First look at Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
- Tuesday Link-A-Mania
- Johnny Depp and Rob Marshall remaking The Thin Man
- Final Destination 5 trailer released
- Brink launch trailer highlights themes of class warfare, face-shooting
- Skyrim interview: You ask, Bethesda answers
- US opens arts funding to videogames
- Modders build bin Laden's hideout in Counter-Strike: Source
- Rumor: Heavenly Sword sequel in development
- PortalCraft mod brings Aperture Science technology to Minecraft
- L.A. Noire getting two downloadable soundtrack albums
- May 9
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- First look at Brad Pitt in Cogan's Trade
- PSN restart misses its first deadline in order to strengthen security, but fear not. Free games are coming. At some point
- Get your free beta key for 8Realms now!
- Celebrate Gollancz's Half Century
- First look at Rhys Ifans in The Amazing Spider-man
- Painfully crap supposed Grand Theft Auto V video leak causes confusion. Previously unseen crap screenshots clear things up
- Thor hammers home box office victory
- Johnny Depp unsure about making a Pirates 5
- The Skin I Live In teaser trailer
- Monday Link-A-Mania
- May 8
- May 7
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- Keanu Reeves looking to play Kaneda in Akira remake
- Michael Fassbender is in talks for Danny Boyle's Trances
- Will Smith could star in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained
- Rumor: Microsoft to announce Xbox 360 successor at E3 next month
- Volition reveals character-sharing 'Initiation Station' for Saints Row: The Third
- Gears of War 3 beta updated with giant bobbleheads and squeaky chipmunk voices (also, new playlist)
- Valve launches Replay System for Team Fortress 2, announces First Annual Saxxy Awards
- Sony CEO issues apology to PSN customers
- May 6
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- Iron Man writers to pen the Tomb Raider reboot
- JJ Abrams talks Brad Bird and Mission Impossible 4
- NintendoTV on YouTube!
- Plot details for Ben Affleck's next film Argo
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt in talks for Spielbergs Lincoln
- Joel Edgerton will Kill Bin Laden
- Duke Nukem Forever “shrinkage” trailer is one (more) minute of explosions and dick jokes
- Smithsonian announces winning titles from "Art of Video Games" poll
- Assassin's Creed Revelations revealed at last
- Disney Interactive confirms staff cuts at Black Rock Studio
- Saints Row: Drive By canned for PSN and XBLA
- May 5
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- Bradley Cooper could play Lucifer in Paradise Lost
- Snow White And The Huntsman has its prince
- Arnold Schwarzenegger announces first project back
- How Are Those US TV Telefantasy Pilots Going Down?
- Full Conan The Barbarian trailer brawls online
- Catfish directors to helm Paranormal Activity 3
- Terminator 5 - The Director Speaks
- Second Green Lantern trailer lands
- The Darkness 2 dated for October, new trailer now playing
- Sony's letter to Congress: A timeline of the PSN/SOE attack and Anonymous finger-pointing
- Mass Effect 3 delayed till early 2012, thus ruining Christmas
- THQ talks Homefront DLC, uDraw ports and profitable 2012 line-up
- $150 Wii, $20 Nintendo Selects lineup confirmed
- Rockstar announces L.A. Noire pulp short story series
- Marvel considers Hawkeye and Black Widow movies
- May 4
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- Star Wars Blu-Ray set for release September 12 2011
- Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray - Details
- Wednesday Link-A-Mania
- Nicole Kidman interested in Our Wild Life
- Rachel Weisz is Oz The Great And Powerfuls evil witch
- Hugh Jackman may be taking a Fantastic Voyage
- Sony update: Lawsuits, Congress absences, and free stuff
- First Mortal Kombat tournament bloodying up Vegas this month
- Reader match! Play the Gears of War 3 beta with us on Thursday at 7 PM EST / 4 PM PST
- New Ocarina of Time 3D trailer reminds us it's not out for another month
- Toxic Avenger creator joins The Gunstringer cast
- Nintendo's E3 lineup full of games by western developers
- Ubisoft launches motion picture studio
- Silicon Knights looking to finish Too Human Trilogy
- EA franchises get Simpsons treatment
- Bethesda confirms 3 new DLC packs for Fallout: New Vegas
- May 3
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- Nintendo hinting at more hardcore future with new budget range and Wii bundles? Speculation time!
- Will Ferrell talks ongoing Anchorman 2 development
- Tom Hiddleston confirms Lokis presence in The Avengers
- Black Ops Escalation DLC: Launch day video brings zombies, electrified septuagenarians, annoying voice-overs
- Larry David will play Mother Mengele in Three Stooges
- Paul W.S. Anderson to direct disaster movie Pompeii
- Tuesday Link-A-Mania
- The Ledge trailer edges out
- Sony announces user data stolen from SOE servers
- Rumor: Nintendo limiting number of 3DS Zelda: Ocarina of Time copies
- US videogame trains Cambodian kids to detect and avoid land mines
- How to get your friends into the Gears of War 3 beta
- Catherine 'Love is Over' Deluxe Edition and pre-order bonuses revealed
- Guns 'n' Roses/Mega Man X5 mystery solved by... Claire Redfield
- Toys 'R' Us leaks Mortal Kombat DLC date
- Unreleased Sonic skateboarding game discovered on Xbox development unit
- Dragon Quest X composer teases 2012 Wii release
- May 2
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