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December 31
- 8 games that got real-life places wrong
December 30
- 12DOVE's Game of the Year 2016
- Play these: the unsung heroes of 2016
- 10 bizarre things that gaming characters do all the time
- 22 movies that accurately predicted the future
- The 15 greatest JRPGs in Xbox history
- Was 2016 another big win for PlayStation?
December 29
- Great exclusives and backwards compatibility helped Xbox boss 2016
- The domestic drama of the mid-life crisis simulator is an exciting sign that games might (really this time) be growing up
- Revisiting the underrated BioShock 2 and finding that time has been kinder to it than the reviews were
December 28
- Who needs a console generation? PS4 Pro and Scorpio are the birth of a new upgrade cycle
- "Monsters can be just as compassionate as Santa" - the songs are The Best Bit from The Nightmare Before Christmas
- 2016 - a big year for movies, a great year for sci-fi
- 20 minor video game characters that deserve a better story
- Grand Theft Auto 4 was magnificent in 2008, and it's still fantastic now
- Exploring the wide world of wrestling with the WWE 2K series
December 27
- The 11 most feeble character motives in video games
- 2016 saw the return of cleverly crafted level design, and that makes 2017 incredibly exciting for games
- With canny algorithms, Spelunky‘s infinite challenges are fiendish enough to out-platform Nintendo
- 2016 - one of the best ever years for TV? Yes.
- Virtual Reality's fantastic, but some games need a little more Reality...
December 26
- Keeping politics in games is more important than ever
- Game tie-ins that radically changed the plots of their films
- Torment and murder your family tree: You should be playing Rusty Lake Roots
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Why Him?, Collateral Beauty, Operation Chromite, more...
December 24
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: Kubo and the Two Strings, War Dogs, more...
December 23
- Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency is your new Netflix obsession - we interview star Samuel Barnett
December 22
- The 10 best sports games of 2016
- Poll: Which upcoming game of 2017 are you most excited about?
- 9 spectacular video game guns that don't kill
- A tribute to Halo 3's medals - who needs top score when your chest is covered in shiny achievements?
- The Assassin's Creed movie is getting bad reviews, but does it matter if you love the games?
- The 25 greatest courtroom dramas - no objections!
- The 15 best TV shows of 2016
- The 25 best road movies to drive you mad (with excitement)
December 21
- The 20 best movies of 2016
- "Silly! And weird! And LOUD!" - Gonzo and Rizzo's banter is The Best Bit of Muppet Christmas Carol
- Why you should give your games away this Christmas
- Overwatch’s stunning fan art tells the stories Blizzard shies away from
- Looking for last-minute gifts? Here's the cheapest consoles, games and accessories this Christmas
- FIFA 17's latest feature shows everything that's wrong with the human race
- How Arkane made Dishonored an instant classic by balancing delicate stealth with wild swashbuckling
- The 25 greatest movies that never made it to the big screen
December 20
- We speak to the Ghost Recon Wildlands team about finding breathing space in Bolivia
- Grab a pincer the action with PlayStation's greatest crabs
- The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episodes 1 and 2 review: "Still demonstrates the resonant power of interactive storytelling"
December 19
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 62: Super Mario Running toward 2017
- Talking corn, secret laboratories, and a grumpy Russian teddy bear: you should be playing Maize
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Passengers, Donnie Darko, more...
- Travelling around the globe to find the best locations of the Assassin's Creed series
- The Best (And Worst) Games on the NES Classic Edition
- 9 fan theories that make good movies better, and bad ones bearable
December 17
- You know how Star Wars: Rogue One ends… but that might actually make it a better movie
- 15 sidekicks who deserve their own game
December 16
- Want to see a seriously realistic AI from the future? Play Gone Home team's new game Tacoma
- Hollywood’s next obsession needs to be making really dark movie versions of these popular mobile games
- Here's Star Wars 8's opening line as predicted by the cast of Rogue One
- From New York to Vietnam, we explore the globe with the best locations in the Battlefield series
- Is it just me, or is An Unexpected Journey the best Middle-earth movie?
December 15
- The 2016 Bucket List: 12 gaming things you need to do before Christmas
- The best gifts for Nintendo gamers
- How to build a Death Star: A Star Wars set decorator reveals all
- Microsoft Studios’ general manager on bringing together great minds and nurturing talent of tomorrow
December 14
- The Rogue One cast reveal the Star Wars Easter eggs to watch out for
- Stealth assassinations and chases on horseback: highlights from For Honor's campaign
- "The worst Christmas story ever told" - Phoebe Cates' festive tragedy is The Best Bit of Gremlins
- How does Star Wars: Rogue One fit around A New Hope? We analyse Episode 4's opening crawl
- The best gifts for PlayStation gamers
- The best gifts for Xbox gamers
- Why Platinum’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles re-imagines arcade brawling, and hides many secrets
- 7 reasons The Mummy remake won't be as bad as you think
- Prey is the evolution of Dishonored, and the sequel BioShock always deserved (but never got)
December 13
- "Making it up as I go." - The making of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire with Jon Knoles
- Halo Wars 2 - how 343 Industries and Creative Assembly are building a strategy game for the impatient
December 12
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 61: Saving Star Wars and lingering on the Last of Us Pt. 2
- Gorgeous sprites, perfect fights: You should be playing Garou Mark of the Wolves
- If Star Wars is going to survive, it has to let go of its addiction to the past
- The 20 greatest Death Star moments in Star Wars cinema
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Eagle Huntress, The Son of Joseph, more...
- 5 disturbing Black Mirror moments to make you mistrust your smartphone
December 11
- 8 games that did a terrible job predicting the future
- Inside the Star Wars: Rogue One premiere - cast pictures, Stormtroopers, and first reactions
December 10
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: Suicide Squad: Extended Edition, David Brent: Life on the Road, more...
December 9
- Gaming's most overly elaborate evil schemes
- 8 questions from the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer we need answered
- No guts, no glory kill - why I love Doom's brilliant reinvention of the melee takedown
December 8
- Unscalable heights: The inimitability of Shadow of the Colossus
- Steven Moffat reveals the superhero secrets behind the Doctor Who Christmas special
- Neil Patrick Harris answers our questions about Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- 8 of the most common names in video games - and what they mean
- Why Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham Asylum is still the seminal superhero game we all deserve
- Portable or not, Nintendo’s Switch is the same old stay-at-home console
- Super Mario Run preview: smart, slick and surprisingly complex
December 7
- Flinthook makes you feel like an adorable little pirate Spider-Man
- The arcade mayhem of competitive frisbee returns with Windjammers and Disc Jam
- "So physical they’re almost part of the crew" - the control panel buttons are The Best Bit in Alien
- The 5 biggest Star Wars: Rogue One plot theories (and whether they're any good or not)
- Every secret Easter egg and hidden reference in Westworld season 1
- Take a road trip across the globe with the best racetracks and locations in the Forza series
December 6
- Aaero is like dubstep Rez - yes, it's really that good
- In Persona 5, even the menus are cooler than you
- Vane looks like Journey and sounds like Stranger Things
- Yonder is the most adorable game I played at PSX
- It's a joyous Psychonauts reunion in the PS VR Rhombus of Ruin
- Forget about the games - PlayStation VR is set to hack my entire life, and I couldn’t be happier
December 5
- 13 PSX games we wish we were still playing
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 60: Diving into Death Stranding, Zelda Switch, and The Last Guardian
- Hear your enemies before you see them
- Elegant simplicity and impatient passengers: You should be playing Mini Metro
- Here's why you should be following the stars of Westworld on social media
- If you’re getting Stranger Things withdrawal symptoms, you should watch Twin Peaks
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: The Birth of a Nation, Office Christmas Party, Snowden, more...
- The Mummy trailer breakdown: Director Alex Kurtzman answers our questions
- FutureGrind revs up with a colorful twist on arcade racing
- Loot Rascals is a rogue-like for people who hate rogue-likes
December 4
- 5 things you might have missed in the new Guardians of the Galaxy 2 trailer
December 2
- Yes. Playing as an X-Wing pilot in VR is as amazing as you want it to be
- The Assassin’s Creed movie: New clips, the Animus in action, and everything you need to know
- PlayStation VR's biggest promise is reviving the quirky, creative mid-tier of video gaming
December 1
- 7 movie actors made impossibly young by CGI
- Take a trip down Memory Card Lane with the best television adverts in PlayStation history
- CM Punk, Bobby Roode, AJ Lee: the 15 WWE 2K17 creations you have to download right now