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May 2017

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May 31
- The 10 best puzzle games for console, Android, iOS and PC
- Everything the Daredevil movie did wrong (that the TV show fixed)
- 11 Marvel comics to get you ready for the future movies
- Descending into full-blown rodent mastery in Dishonored 2’s New Game Plus mode
- Is it just me, or should actors not bother with accents?
- How the Millennium Falcon became the most famous spaceship in cinema
- The 7 best uses for your old Xbox 360
- Doom 3 is a great game, but it could have been so much more
- The story behind Halo: Combat Evolved's massive success on Xbox
May 30
- Mad Max: Fury Road deserved Best Picture, but its Best Editing award is more important
- Why choosing to interrupt dialogue in Oxenfree makes the conversations feel natural
- Top 5 songs from Sing to belt out anywhere... anytime
- Is it just me, or do we need more superhero movies, not fewer?
- 7 teams we can't wait to play as in Madden NFL 18
- The most ludicrously impractical RPG weapons
- Star Wars sequels, spin-offs and the risk of ruining mystery
May 29
- This week's best Overwatch moments: Trust no one, even Winston might betray you
- PS4 vs Xbox One - Which is best in 2020?
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Wonder Woman, My Life as a Courgette, and more
- Is it just me, or should we do away with trailers?
May 28
- Cannes 2017: The 12 movies you HAVE to see
- Cannes 2017: Joaquin Phoenix stars in a modern day Taxi Driver
- Cannes 2017: The director of The Revenant has created a VR experience, and it’s a game changer
May 27
- Following Dogmeat home: a tale of ghouls, walking & burning fur
- Cannes 2017: Will Robert Pattinson win Best Actor? All the prizes predicted
- Cannes 2017: “Self-consciously trashy, but great fun” here’s what we thought of psychosexual thriller L’amant Double
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: T2: Trainspotting, Split, and more
May 26
- 6 ways going hands on with Crash Bandicoot's N. Sane Trilogy made me Ooga Booga
- Fallout 4's skeletons have a story to tell
- Far Cry 5 seems to be tangling with bold, contemporary issues, but I’m not sure how seriously it takes them
- Cannes 2017: startling debut I Am Not a Witch leaves audiences spellbound
- BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins gave us a grand but sometimes flat fantasy world
May 25
- Please stop using these meaningless words in your video game and movie titles: Origins Edition
- 8 questions I have after watching the new Game of Thrones season 7 trailer
- These monsters from a Russian dark fantasy movie are taken straight from your nightmares
- The creator of iconic puzzler Myst looks back on its legend – and onwards to new game, Obduction
- Cannes 2017: Robert Pattinson gives career-best performance in crime-thriller Good Time
May 24
- Tell us: do you ever purposely seek out game spoilers?
- Cannes 2017: This action film recreates Oldboy's corridor fight in first person, and it's incredible
- Cannes 2017: Sofia Coppola’s Southern thriller The Beguiled is a rare remake that gets it right
- 6 gory reasons horror movie fans should be excited about Friday the 13th: The Game
- It’s survival of the dimmest in Ark: Survival Evolved as we embrace its silly side and have a Jurassic lark
- Cannes 2017: "No other filmmaker so teases and tortures..." Our thoughts on Michael Haneke's Happy End
May 23
- Play out your own Game of Thrones stories with these Dungeons & Dragons character sheets
- Destiny 2 story: Enemies might become friends, leaders will fall, and new powers (and Darkness) may take their place
- Cannes 2017: Tangerine director Sean Baker is back with Insta-classic The Florida Project
- Games with bespoke soundtracks allow you to create memories to go along with the music you listen to
May 22
- This week's best Overwatch moments: How to succeed at Roadhog without really trying
- 6 essential lessons the Uncharted movie needs to learn from the games
- The 25 best movie car chases that put the foot to the floor
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: The Red Turtle, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, and more
- Middle-earth: Shadow of War is a thrilling, chaotic sandbox where every bloody beheading is your own damn fault
- Cannes 2017: Farrell and Kidman star in the most shocking movie of the year, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
- 7 GIFs that prove Sing is the feel good movie you've been waiting for
- The Black Flag team is back for the new Assassin's Creed... here's why that really, really matters
May 21
- Cannes 2017: Adam Sandler shines in Netflix movie The Meyerowitz Stories
- Cannes 2017: Punk boy meets girl (from Mars) in Neil Gaiman's new sci-fi comedy
- Cannes 2017: Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch avenge a murder in icy thriller Wind River
May 19
- The 10 best-value games you can buy and play for months
- Netflix is getting booed at the Cannes film festival. Here’s why that's wrong
- This is how PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds became the Hunger Games of shooters
- How a pair of wings has made the blocky landscapes of Minecraft feel like a whole new realm again
- Cannes 2017: Jake Gyllenhaal takes on a 'super pig' in Netflix movie Okja
- I’ve played Destiny 2: here are the 6 things you need to know (and how they change everything)
May 18
- A year later, Nintendo's loyalty program is still a disappointment - but it doesn't have to be
- 8 questions I have after watching Alien: Covenant
- The 25 best Disney songs to make your heart go bippidy-boppidy-boop
- Cannes 2017: Amazon's magical realist fable will leave you wonderstruck
- Cannes 2017: Russian stunner Loveless opens competition for Palme d'Or
- Celebrating the marvellous mundanity in David Cage’s film noir interactive drama Heavy Rain
- The secret technical tricks going on behind your favourite games
- 6 Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Easter eggs that tell us about the future of the MCU
- Loved Resident Evil 7? Here are six more horror games ready to terrorise you this year
May 17
- Jumping into the ring with Nintendo Switch's Arms reveals a surprisingly complex fighting game
- The 15 types of characters you meet in every RPG
- Cannes 2017: Marion Cotillard returns from the grave in Ismaël's Ghosts
- Forza Horizon 3 Hot Wheels DLC is Xbox One’s Mario Kart. Really.
- Prey finished in 6 minutes, Morrowind in 3 - watch these 9 incredible big game speedruns
- Tackling the bottom-rung shock tactic in games: the jump scare
- Netflix is making Assassin’s Creed and Witcher shows - here are 6 more games that deserve the same
May 16
- 5 ways GameStream enhances PC gameplay in the living room
- PlayStation 4’s dominance of 2017 is led by Asia. Why? Because Japan dares to be different
- 12 things you'll only understand if you play a lot of shooters
- How Disney is treating Star Wars like Marvel… in the wrong way
May 15
- Overwatch’s Arcade - the best way to get good and earn more loot boxes
- This week's best Overwatch moments: Mercy, destroyer of worlds, and a rocket queen dethroned
- Listen to the best retro gaming tracks of all time, chosen by the composer of Furi's greatest tunes
- How to watch Sing in very public places (and not get embarrassed by your singing)
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Colossal, and more
May 14
- Gran Turismo Sport - the Beta shows that this racer is better, and more complete than you think...
- Alan Wake was almost an open-world Silent Hill, here's how it evolved into something else entirely
May 13
- Movies to watch on Blu-Ray and DVD: La La Land, Mad Max: Fury Road – Black & Chrome Edition, and more
May 12
- Meet Destiny’s Sherpas, the high-level players dedicated to getting YOU through the game’s toughest challenges
- The best tattoos in PlayStation gaming
May 11
- The goriest, bloodiest gaming moments of all time
- Talking Ghost Recon, Assassin's Creed, and Xbox Scorpio plans with Ubisoft's Xavier Poix
- Wait… could the Xenomorphs in Alien: Covenant actually exist?
- Mass Effect: Andromeda could have been brilliant - if it was more like Dragon Age 2
May 10
- Swap out custom gaming keys at-will on Logitech's new G413 keyboard
- The history of the world according to Fallout
- Asking players to fill in the blanks isn’t laziness on the part of devs - it can be a mechanic in its own right
- Want to make your own YouTube gaming series? Here's how it's done
- Bottle episodes - the real reason why the cheapest, quietest TV is often our favourite
May 9
- The five best tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
- From Zelda's meals to Prey's exotic materials: the seven laws of cooking and crafting
- Why Bastion's narrator is a silver-tongued storyteller and an understated narrative lynchpin
- 20 years later and Gary Oldman's villain is still The Best Bit of The Fifth Element. Here's why...
May 8
- This week's best Overwatch moments: Tracer is adorable, Junkrat's still a jerk
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Alien: Covenant, The Levelling, and more
May 6
- Shooters need more characters like Overwatch’s Ana
- Why PS2 squad shooter Freedom Fighters deserves a PS4 comeback
- How Titanfall 2’s secret, high-level game blesses a modern shooter with long-lost, old-school purity
May 5
- Framerate is everything: why upgrading to 60fps can break your favorite games
- 22 years. 3 developers. Only 2 games. The fascinating history of the Prey series
- Is it time to lose these tried-and-tested shooter cliches?
- The 15 best Xbox companions
- These 10 ludicrous FPS weapons are totally impractical (but we love them)
May 4
- Jedi or Sith? Discover your Star Wars allegiance with our quiz
- 9 questions I have after watching Guardians of the Galaxy 2
- Quiz: How much do you really know about FPS games?
- Call of Dew-ty: How Stardew Valley converts shooter fans into farmers
- Think you’re tough for shrugging at Agony’s gore? That’s what its creators want...
- Taking a lazy Sunday cruise in Forza Horizon 3 to soak up the wonders of the Australian landscape
- PES 2017: Nul points for the UK as Italian wins $20,000 Anfield tournament
May 3
- Star Wars Battlefront 2 should give these heroes and villains their due
- FIFA 17 Ultimate Team: five great non-Premier League teams you can build for under 100,000 coins
- How the creators of GTA swapped city streets for school beats in Bully: Scholarship Edition
- Now, more than ever, we need shooters like Timesplitters 2
- From frontline heroes to zombie slayers: the complicated history of women in Call of Duty
- Thanks a lot, VR: You've ruined blockbuster FPS moments for me
May 2
- Why now is the best time to play Warframe – the free-to-play shooter with 26 million registered users
- Mass Effect: Andromeda Easter eggs, secrets, and references to the original games
- Getting lost in the beautiful underwater paradise of Abzû
- The 25 best zombie movies that will turn you veggie
- Everyone's freaking out about THAT sex scene in the American Gods premiere
May 1
- Best adventure games on consoles
- This week's best Overwatch moments: holy hell, 12 Sombra ultimates fired AT ONCE
- Obstacles that could only kill you in a video game
- From Vib Ribbon to Mr Mosquito - Did you play these bizarre PlayStation games?
- Movies to watch this week at the cinema: Mindhorn, Unlocked, and more
- The King of FPS - how Wolfenstein 3D changed video games forever
- A 43-year history of first-person shooters - from Maze War to Destiny 2