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February 28
- An N64 classic 20 years later: The Making of Turok Dinosaur Hunter
- The 30 best movie soundtracks you need in your life
- Yooka-Laylee: we go hands-on with the bright, surprisingly tricksy platformer
- Why you should appreciate the quiet moments in Life Is Strange
February 27
- The 2017 Oscar winning movies: reviewed by angry Amazon users
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 70: Nintendo Switch is coming in hot
- The 50 most overlooked games of last generation
- How to get the best gaming merch (and keep it nice)
- An adorable, hilarious existential crisis on the edge of ruin: You should be playing Night in the Woods
- 8 things we want from the Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor sequel
- PlayStation's 9 most shocking scary moments
- 7 movies that inspired Resident Evil 7 (and none of them are actually Resident Evil)
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Logan, Certain Women, and more
February 26
- Xbox trivia - 22 things you never knew about Microsoft's consoles
- Here are the 10 most disturbing Silent Hill moments
- For Honor review diary
February 25
- Video game 'bad guys' who aren't really bad at all
- Scandal, injustice, and favouritism - the real history of the Oscars explained
February 24
- 6 great RTS games on console
- 10 things I learned playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- How to make friends and alienate people in XCOM 2 - except with aliens instead of friends or people
- Why watching tragic movies like Logan is actually good for you
February 23
- Every Xbox Play Anywhere game (and what that means)
- Here's everything inside the Nintendo Switch box
- Mass Effect: Andromeda: we spent five hours playing both lead characters - here's what we learned
- Nintendo Switch: What you don't get in the box – and where to get the extras at the best price
- Hitman Season 2 - "I would like a game where all levels are ups!" says IO Interactive's creative director
February 22
- Best Shots Review: The Old Guard #1 "raw and unfiltered" (9/10)
- I've never played Fire Emblem, where's the best place to start?
- Remember these 11 frustrating video game levels and try not to smash your controller
- 8 last-gen games that need PS4, Switch and Xbox One remakes
- The 5 big things you need to know about Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind
- "Perfectly sums up the self-destructive nature of war" - the WOPR's realization is The Best Bit of WarGames
- Kalimba will make you hate your friends, and that’s why it’s one of my favourite games of all time
- Nine years on, and Modern Warfare is still Call of Duty’s finest hour
February 21
- 6 games that do death differently
- Final Fantasy 15 isn’t perfect, but it marks a return to the philosophy that made the series great
- Psychonauts in The Rhombus of Ruin - like visiting a delightful old friend. In VR.
- 8 boss fights that are way different from the rest of their games
February 20
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 68: E3 goes public, Horizon: Zero Dawn, and our first spoilercast
- 10 bits of Tolkien mythology to look for in Shadow of Mordor
- A seriously tough trip through simple spaces: You should be playing Flywrench
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Patriots Day, It's Only the End of the World, and more
- In praise - and defence - of Ashley Williams, the most contentious character in BioWare’s sci-fi epic
- 7 games where the bad guys actually win
February 18
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: Train to Busan, Inferno, and more
February 17
- The Big Question: What do you think of Breath of the Wild's expansion pass?
- Self-driving cars, the Russian Mob and anti-hack enemies - Watch Dogs 2’s Human Conditions DLC is far too much fun
- Why Resident Evil 3’s Nemesis is the deadliest villain in the history of survival horror
February 16
- The top 10 most addictive mobile games
- 9 of the Cthulhu-iest video games ever
- 4 secrets to winning For Honor’s 4x4 matches, from the mind behind the game
- 15 games worth playing after you finish the story
- Bad Company 2 - Going back to a time when Battlefield wasn’t afraid to tell a few jokes
- So... how does Breath of the Wild fit into the Zelda timeline?
February 15
- 10 problems you'll only understand if you owned a Nintendo Wii
- The 11 most WTF missions in Grand Theft Auto's crazy history
- These 22 hidden game techniques will totally change the way you play
- "Their anger is righteous and perfect" - the destruction of Charles Town is The Best Bit of Black Sails
- 6 reasons Prey belongs in the legendary System Shock family
- Prey - it's like Dishonored had a baby with BioShock in space... and you're going to love it
- As someone who’s blown obscene money on PC parts, Sony’s entry price for 4K gaming is a damn steal
- Burial at Sea was envisioned as BioShock Infinite DLC, but it become a game in its own right
- Assassination John Wick style - 8 movie characters killed by pencils
- Are video games good for your brain? Science says yes
February 14
- Umbrella, the Bakers, and that helicopter: What’s really going on in Resident Evil 7?
- For Honor's mastermind: "My greatest fear was that I would die before I could share this with the world"
- 7 real life Horizon Zero Dawn robots that already exist
- Crash Bandicoot had me at "Wahoo!"... plus 7 unusual confessions of gaming love
- 11 key changes Madden 18 needs to make according to fans
- How removing regenerating health brings tension and challenge back to modern gaming
- Happy Valentine's Day! Show them you care with these ridiculous movie and TV tie-ins
- Stop calling sports games casual. You couldn't be more wrong
- The 50 best movie kisses. And they say romance is dead...
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 67: Fire Emblem Heroes and the trouble with backwards compatibility
February 13
- 13 zero-point Achievements that will make you want to cry
- A delightfully retro deflectathon: You should be playing The Counter of Death
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: John Wick: Chapter 2, Hidden Figures, and more
- Nier: Automata: Consistently great combat, in a world that sometimes feels desolate for the wrong reasons
- Is it just me, or are all Marvel Cinematic Universe movies the same?
- Unknown Mario - 40 obscure facts and random trivia about Nintendo's mascot
February 10
- See if you remember gaming's most forgettable sequels
- The Big Question: What do you want from Destiny 2?
- Get a free game, the chance to win a £1,200 PC and battle for prizes in a For Honor tournament - 6 reasons to attend the PCGamer Weekender!
- Stop it Vampyr, you’re bloody spoiling us: 4 types of vampire (so far) and 3 ways to rip people apart?!
February 9
- Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the perfect chance for Nintendo to drop that awful Zelda timeline
- 30 superhero movies with secret (and not-so-secret) political messages
- Killer Instinct’s Shadow Lords mode is the best single-player content of any modern fighting game
February 8
- The PS4 doesn't need PlayStation Now, it needs PS1 games
- Difficulty settings need to be more than just Easy, Normal, and Hard
- "The outfits represent outrageous self belief disguised as formality" - the clothes are The Best Bit of Hannibal
- 10 problems anyone who owned a PS3 will understand
- How Resident Evil 7 uses Southern stereotypes to trick you
- Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City DLC is like a warped greatest hits of the series
- Call of Cthulhu is all about investigation, madness, and (surprise surprise) dark secrets
- This is how developers can fix stealth mechanics in games
- How to make a videogame (with no experience)
- Silent Hill 2 is a perfect game... and it's still inspiring survival horror today
February 7
- The 15 most bizarre video game Collector’s Editions and... wait, one of them is $10 million? Really?
- The price is Reich? 7 things that need to happen in The Man in the High Castle season 3
February 6
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 66: Nioh nails it and we played many Nintendo Switch games
- Play Skyrim in D&D... and 9 more ways to turn your favorite games into tabletop RPGs
- Smart, simple, and soothing: You should be playing Linelight
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: The Lego Batman Movie, Fences, Fifty Shades Darker, Prevenge, more...
- If you were The Last Jedi, which side of the force would you pick? These outstanding fan films will help you decide
- Here's all eight versions of the original Resident Evil (plus the 'dead' port fans saved from development hell)
February 5
- 15 games that reward you for NOT playing them
February 4
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: The Girl on the Train, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, more...
February 3
- The Big Question: Why is Resident Evil 7 such a successful reboot?
- Fallout's creator tells us how Torment: Tides of Numenera is bringing the weird back to the RPG
February 2
- The escape room game that makes PS VR worth owning
- Star Wars: Bloodline reveals the hidden history of Leia Organa and the First Order
- Overwatch's publicity stunt was a total hack job - the fans have every right to feel sobered by Sombra
- Is it morally right to bring actors back from the dead?
February 1
- 9 rumors people believed about Pokemon games (that were totally fake)
- The future of local multiplayer is strong, and here's four party games to prove it
- Has-Been Heroes could be the Switch's first great strategy game
- Your messed up family history awaits in What Remains of Edith Finch
- I spent $24 to beat one boss in Let It Die, and I'll probably do it again
- Gorogoa: terrible name, fantastic game
- Chekhov's Gun is the movie trope that'll ruin everything once you know about it
- "It's the cold chill of oh-so-crushing reality" - the boys taking a walk is The Best Bit of Trainspotting
- “Oh my lord I’ve turned into a duck!” Why Dragon Quest Heroes 2’s multiplayer mode isn’t what you’d expect
- Years later and under a new publisher, Rime is closer to its original vision than ever
- The 15 greatest online modes in Xbox history
- You no talk good: how dialogue defines the games we play