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April 30
- How to use a PS4 controller on PS3
- Why it's worth revisiting the brilliant, broken Star Wars game that was 13 years ahead of its time
April 29
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: Silence, A Monster Calls, and more
April 28
- Escaping real-life woes and taking refuge in the whimsical but still weirdly woeful Stardew Valley
- Xbox One Project Scorpio - everything we know about Microsoft's next console
- 100 amazing, real Darth Vader helmets that'd make Kylo Ren furious with envy
April 27
- "Genesis does what NintenDON'T!" Here are the gaming slogans you can never forget
- Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite is as anarchic, hilarious, and spectacular as ever, but in a way that anyone can now enjoy
- 8 things you probably won’t see and do in the Prey demo (but really should)
- The 25 most ridiculously good-looking movies you'll see
- Celebrating rodent royalty with the best rats in PlayStation history
- Why Call of Duty's greatest power fantasy leads to its most disturbing scenes
April 26
- Call of Duty: WW2’s story, narrative multiplayer, Zombies, and new Destiny-like social space explained by the creators
- 7 rules Alien: Covenant needs to follow if it’s going to be a legitimate Alien film
- The 10 creepiest moments from The Silence of the Lambs
- Morality in video games shouldn’t be about being a good turtle or evil scorpion
April 25
- Every Simpsons game ever: from worst to best
- PlayStation VR is an incredible piece of kit, but it needs a killer app if it's going to truly thrive
- The 25 scariest movie moments that will keep you awake at night
April 24
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 77: One more slow jam for the road
- 10 HD collections we (still) want to happen
- 5 amazing Overwatch moments to start off your week: Next-level strategies for the win
- Star Trek: Bridge Crew is the right kind of Virtual Reality disaster
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Lady Macbeth, and more
- The 25 best time travel movies to make your head spin
- The 50 greatest movies you'll only watch once
April 23
- 16 idle animations worth dropping your controller for
- The best Lego Dimensions packs - From Excalibur Batman to Adventure Time's Marceline, here are the stars of the studs
April 21
- Marvel Heroes Omega brings comic book beat-'em-ups back to consoles
- Yooka-Laylee: A classic 3D platformer built for modern gaming hardware
- Has the most powerful console of a generation ever actually won?
- 11 great games that can be played while drinking tea
- Eight Nintendo games that NEED to become Mario Kart 8 tracks right now
April 20
- What's old is new again in Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
- How Race Driver: Grid’s rewinding time and deeply unhinged AI made it a beloved racer
April 19
- 12 great delisted games you may never get to play
- 19 games banned across the world, and why they got the axe
- The best Mario Kart games from worst to best
- 8 games that will make you feel like you’re in The Fast and the Furious
- Pushing the boundaries of common sense reveals Hitman’s true depth. Time for the rubber duck challenge
- Madden 18 cover star: ranking the most likely candidates from Ajayi to Zeke
- The 17 most gruesome decapitations in video games
April 18
- Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series - Episode 1 review: "A perfectly pleasant experience"
- Meet the mind behind Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, the rebirth of a Sega classic
- Why Resident Evil 7 highlights the limitations of VR horror
April 17
- The 5 best Overwatch clips of the week: Payback's a bitch (and so is Junkrat)
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Their Finest, Rules Don't Apply, and more
April 16
- 6 Yooka-Laylee Easter eggs, from retro references to motion-control mockery
April 15
- Why Prey is frontrunner for game of the year 2017
- Written off as shallow, Lego Dimensions gives invested players a surprisingly deep end game
- The 30 best Pixar Easter eggs you might have missed
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: The Life of Oharu, Sand Castle, and more
April 14
- The meanest ways to kill your Sims
- 10 questions we have after watching the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer
- Class is the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood wishes it had been
- Why 343 Industries and Creative Assembly were perfect partners to resurrect Halo’s strategy spin-off
April 13
- Buying these awful PlayStation avatars might be the biggest mistake of your life
- If you’re bored with Elder Scrolls, these secret races could be exactly what you’ve been waiting for
- 12 Star Wars characters who DEFINITELY deserve a spin-off movie
- Do yourself a favor. Play the Prey demo... or miss out on one of 2017's most promising games
- The single-player campaign in Titanfall 2 is fantastic, but let’s not forget its core function: multiplayer
- 13 video game secrets that were almost never found
- Nintendo hasn't forgotten about the 3DS, announces a ton of new Kirby games
April 12
- Nintendo Direct recap: Splatoon 2 and Arms headline a summer of Nintendo Switch games
- How to make word games people will actually play
- Avengers: Infinity War needs to kill a lot of heroes for the good of the MCU
- How a Final Fantasy box-office bomb led to the strangely charming Blue Dragon
- The 10 hardest Hard Modes in gaming - these will destroy you
- 7 normal, everyday things that are impossible to explain to non-gamers
- The secrets and tricks Pokemon games never tell you about (but you need to know)
- 8 secrets and clues you might have missed in that Star Wars Battlefront 2 trailer
April 11
- The 11 coolest alternate history stories in video games
- After 2016’s disappointing sequel sales, is it time for publishers to take more risks?
- With COD WW 2 rumoured this year, let’s look at the series' best World War 2 moments
- The saddest video games that will actually make you cry
- 12 secrets we learned from Star Wars: The Force Awakens' special features
- The 25 best kung fu movies you have to see... or I'll roundhouse you
- Mario's most secret secrets in nearly 30 years of games
April 10
- 5 amazing Overwatch moments to start off your week: Mei does it again
- 12 supporting characters who ended up starring in their own games
- The Thor: Ragnorok trailer’s glorious, space-based nonsense shows an MCU matured to its full potential
- The 25 best ghost movies to give you chills
- These slow-mo decapitations from The Surge are half ballet, half OH MY GOD WHAT BODY PART IS THAT?!
- How the Thor: Ragnarok director will bring humanity to the MCU
- The 30 best movie Easter eggs
- All the secrets hidden in early footage of Visceral's new Star Wars game
- Super Mario Maker's toughest levels, from hard to near-impossible (we're still trying to finish them...)
- 13 new and exciting Netflix original movies (and when you can watch them)
- Star Wars Celebration 2017 starts this week: Here's 8 things we want to see
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Fast and Furious 8, The Handmaiden, and more
April 7
- "A damn-you-all carnival of the senses" - here's our spoiler-free thoughts on the American Gods premiere
- Destiny 2 should start by killing you (temporarily) - here's how we want the new game to begin
- Raw is a coming-of-age drama that just happens to be about cannibalism
- Exploring the globe with the best locations in the Ghost Recon series
- 11 healing items that would definitely kill you in real life
- 7 shared movie universes that aren't the MCU
April 6
- Elder Scrolls 6 should explore the dark past of these 7 locations: prepare to be asked some tricky moral questions...
- What do 4K and HDR actually mean?
- Get Out proves horror isn’t afraid to tackle the issues Hollywood blockbusters won’t
April 5
- Rethinking Metroid should be the next step for Nintendo Switch after Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- From N64 to the Main Stage: How League of Heels brought wrestling fandom to the gaming masses
- Power Rangers proves that not all superhero remakes need to be gritty
- How Dishonored 2's Heart lets you discover people's deepest secrets
April 4
- The making of Snake Pass, Nintendo Switch's slithery sweet platformer
- How to pretend you've played 30 of the best games ever made
- 6 questions I have after watching Ghost in the Shell
- Be Kind, Rewind: The Real Story Behind Blinx, Xbox’s Mediocre Mascot
- Can you really be *everything* in Everything, the game based on being...anything?
- 10 questions I have after watching Legion season 1
- The Last Guardian finds original ways to evoke player emotion
- Here's how Final Fantasy 15 creates believable friends who live inside your television
April 3
- RadioRadar+ Podcast 75: Just when we think we're out, Destiny 2 pulls us back in
- 5 Overwatch moments to start off your week: Gravity in all its glory
- 7 questions I have after watching The Walking Dead season 7
- Agents of Mayhem shows how hard it is for a hero shooter to stand out these days
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: City of Tiny Lights, Raw, and more
- Gaming's most thankless jobs
- "Did The Walking Dead really just do that?" - here's the best reactions to the season 7 finale
- 10 games that are way better now than at launch
- The 50 worst movie mistakes you never noticed... until now
April 1
- The 15 most awkward, angst-ridden middle-stage Pokemon
- Keep all your (good) games with Seagate External Drives
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Moana, and more