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- June 30
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- Empyre aims to offer a 'clear and brave statement about the Marvel Universe'
- Best Shots Review - DCeased: Hope on World's End #4 "a mixed bag" (5/10)
- How can we give comic artists more credit? Ask Uncle Creepy
- Dark Horse Comics sticking with Diamond, see comic book sales as a challenge
- The Last of Us 2, complicated women, and survival
- Big in 2020: Fuser proves that Harmonix's golden touch is as strong as ever
- Every movie and TV show delayed by the coronavirus
- June 29
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- Best Shots Review - Harley Quinn: Black + White + Red #1 "hasn’t quite lived up to the hype"
- DC's Supergirl creative team reflect on series as digital-first finale nears
- Cyclops witnesses the birth of the Marvel Age of Heroes in Marvels Snapshots: X-Men
- Hughie gets the pitch from Reverend Dandy in The Boys: Dear Becky #2 preview
- The Secret Origin of writer/artist John Allison
- Big in 2020: Twin Mirror is the Dontnod thriller with a new lease of life
- From Heat to Breaking Bad, Danny Trejo breaks down his biggest on-screen deaths
- Pokemon Sword and Shield didn't give us the annoying rivals that we all wanted, but we got the ones we deserve
- Release Radar: Our pick of the week's best TV, movies, and games (June 29-July 5)
- June 26
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- DC's Digital First "expansion" may be foreshadowing much bigger changes
- Uncanny X-Men partners reunite for pulp adventure their kids can read: Adventureman
- What rumored game are you most excited about?
- Hit OGN series 5 Worlds aims to show young readers "a genuine reflection of the nature of evil"
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the comfort movie we need right now
- Best Shots Rapid-Fire Reviews: Thor #5, Teen Titans #42, Immortal Hulk #34, more
- Big in 2020: Talkin' about Bugsnax with Young Horses co-founder Phil Tibitoski
- Swamp Thing vs. Monsanto-esque corporation as both its 'ultimate prize and impediment'
- West of Dead and star Ron Perlman are teaching me how to be patient
- The Last of Us 2's story is so powerful even the spoilers couldn't ruin it
- The complete story of Star Wars: Underworld, the George Lucas-led TV show that never was
- Desperados 3's Showdown Mode takes tactics to the next level
- June 25
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- The Last of Us 2 ending should have left more for the player to think about
- Cyberpunk 2077 character creation tools are the closest we've got to diverse human representation
- Hands-on with Cyberpunk 2077: Freedom, master world-building, and customisable genitalia
- Pride Island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a reminder of the game's inclusivity and joy
- An additional PS5 SSD upgrade is going to be a must-have accessory - just don't buy one at launch
- Big in 2020: How one man is creating a next-generation shooter with Bright Memory: Infinite
- June 24
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- Best Shots Review - Empyre: Avengers #0 "straight-up gorgeous narratively and visually"
- The Destiny 2 Forge farm fiasco is another reminder that its Power grind needs to change
- New Green Hornet title pulls from Kubert School staff for retro/modern take on the classic character
- "We approached each hero as if we were making an entire game just for them": Marvel's Avengers wants to be the live service superhero sim for the next generation
- Dialogue Options: Which games never fail to make you cry?
- Ex-DC publisher Dan DiDio talks about his feelings the day he left and what he considers his highs and lows
- The level of detail in The Last of Us 2 is *chef's kiss* - here's 11 things you might have missed
- Former DC publisher Dan DiDio on the highs and lows of his 18 year run
- Former DC publisher Dan DiDio on the New 52 vs Rebirth and why he 'hated' Wally and Dick
- Best Shots Review - Batman: The Smile Killer #1 "hits like a freight train"
- June 23
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- Best Shots Review: Batman #93
- DC's You Brought Me To The Ocean explores a superhero coming out story
- Captain America dials in on "the challenges of being a hero in a world that needs so much fixing" with Marvels Snapshot
- Ooblets will be so much more than the indie Pokemon you're expecting
- Big in 2020: CrossfireX is a solid and unspectacular throwback to old-school competitive shooters
- Inside the adaptation of Stephen & Owen King's Sleeping Beauties to comics
- Michael Keaton returning as Batman highlights DC's new way of thinking
- June 22
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- Dan Fogler returns to comics - with help from Simon Bisley
- Sina Grace finds commonality with Green Lantern's Simon Baz for 80th Anniversary special
- Here's all the ways the video game industry is helping coronavirus relief efforts
- Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time is the sequel you've been waiting since Warped for
- Big in 2020: Scorn channels the work of H.R. Giger for a truly transcendental take on survival horror
- Is Disney Plus on PS4 and Xbox One?
- How to livestream like a pro and take your broadcast to the next level
- Dirt 5 hands-on: it's the racing game arcade fans have been waiting for
- June 19
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- Best Shots Rapid-Fire Reviews: Valkyrie #10, Superman #22, Wynd #1, more
- What game would make the best Broadway musical?
- Best Shots Advance Review: Stephen King's Sleeping Beauties #1 (8/10)
- "I'm either absolutely insane or this is really going to happen": Marcus Lehto reflects on his last days at Bungie and his earliest on Disintegration
- Best Shots Review: Ant-Man #5 (7/10)
- Among Trees is a paradise of a survival game, just watch out for bears
- How Desperados 3 stays true to a classic series and genre
- How The Last of Us 2 connects to the events of the first game
- June 18
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- Rocket Arena preview: "We wanted to build rockets with personality"
- Best Shots Review: The Flash Annual #3 "a fun, breezy, and action-packed semi-crossover"
- The man who saved the Joker: the legacy of DC's Whitney Ellsworth
- The Future of Gaming: Developers explore how the PS5 and Xbox Series X could change the way that we play in the next generation
- 15 Long TV shows to really get into when you have some time on your hands
- Humankind is a game about how you want to be remembered
- New Pokemon Snap is the sequel fans wanted, but never expected to exist
- June 17
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- Judd Winick revisits his five-year Green Arrow run
- The Last of Us Part 2 and how it deals with "authentic trauma"
- Why Strange New Worlds is the show Star Trek – and the world – needs right now
- DC's collectibles division switches from Diamond to four new distributors
- Big in 2020: The Medium is channelling the spirit of Silent Hill to pull psychological horror games into the next generation
- June 16
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- Dark Knights: Death Metal #1 spoilers - 'Anti-Crisis' on 8 Earths
- Inside the real lives of pro wrestlers with the Comic Book Encyclopedia of Pro Wrestling
- Best Shots Review: Strange Adventures #2
- Best Shots Review: 'The unabashed energy of Dark Nights: Death Metal #1 is the sort of thing most event books would kill to emulate'
- Psycho at 60: Celebrating Alfred Hitchcock's 10 most iconic scenes
- Big in 2020: Scarlet Nexus is worlds apart from the JRPGs of Bandai Namco's past
- June 15
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- Big in 2020: Outriders' approach to co-op is refreshing in an era dominated by live service shooters
- Big in 2020: Elden Ring will be FromSoftware's most ambitious game yet, and a genuine evolution of the Souls-like
- Big in 2020: Dying Light 2 might be delayed indefinitely, but it will certainly not be forgotten
- Big in 2020: Cyberpunk 2077 will give us a glimpse into the next generation of RPGs
- Big in 2020: 12 Minutes puts the point-and-click adventure on repeat for a mind-bending murder mystery
- Best Shots Review: Black Cat #11 (9/10)
- Big in 2020: Little Hope will show the true potential of The Dark Pictures' anthology format
- Big in 2020: Exploring the games that will define the year
- Batman Begins at 15: Why Christopher Nolan’s Bat-flick remains the best superhero origin movie ever made
- Pokemon Sword and Shield Isle of Armor is a strange little window into the world of Pokemon
- Release Radar: Our pick of the week's best TV, movies, and games (June 15-21)
- June 14
- June 13
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- Persona 4 Golden PC runs perfectly, and even after Persona 5 Royal it feels great to play
- Everything you should expect from Disintegration, straight from the Future Games Show
- Cygni is the shoot 'em up you get when you let ex-Pixar animators make a game
- Call of the Sea is an otherworldly exploration of love and loss on a mysterious island
- Dustborn takes the power of misinformation and weaponises it
- Inside New World: Amazon's ambitious, original MMO that lets its players "self govern as much as possible"
- Surgeon Simulator 2 expands your comedy of errors with online multiplayer
- Jim McLauchlin reflects on his last conversation with the great Denny O'Neil
- June 12
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- What's the one game you can't wait to play from the PS5 showcase?
- Denny O'Neil's greatest creative impacts
- Batman's 'Joker War' opens up a "new era of storytelling" in Gotham City
- Revisiting some of my favourite landscapes and gardens in games is providing the perfect virtual retreat
- Retro Bowl's addictive simplicity makes it one of the best sports games in recent years
- Grinding to the Damascus camo in Modern Warfare is one of gaming's most arduous tasks
- FIFA 20 player faces: a complete list of all 118 mid-season updates
- By focusing on games for its PS5 showcase, Sony has reframed the conversation around the next-generation
- Resident Evil Village trailer breakdown: every thing we've found in the new Resident Evil 8 announcement
- 10 biggest things we learned from the Horizon Forbidden West trailer
- PS5 finally revealed: The GamesRadar team react to PlayStation's Future of Gaming
- June 11
- June 10
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- Best Shots Review: You Brought Me The Ocean 'stumbles somewhat under the weight of its ties to the broader DC Universe'
- Remembering the dead DC heroes in DCeased: Dead Planet #1 first look
- Best Shots Review: Legion of Super-Heroes #6
- Instead of building Destiny 3, Bungie is making Destiny 2 the all-encompassing MMO it's wanted for years
- June 9
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- Best Shots Review: Batman #92's 'results are middling' (6/10)
- New Mutants #10 brings the team to a 'Nightmare Realm'
- Best Shots Review: The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 'a fun but rote anniversary celebration' (5/10)
- Say goodbye to Go Go Power Rangers with writers Sina Grace and Ryan Parrott
- Two doomed scene kids surviving in the shadow of the world's end in 920London graphic novel
- Red Dead Redemption 2 is letting me take a breathtaking tour of my own country for the first time
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons didn't feel complete until I reunited with my original villager friend
- What makes the Joker the greatest foe of Batman?
- Best Shots Review: Far Sector #6 'downright prescient' in light of COVID-19 and George Floyd's death
- Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor – 6 things to see in Western Skyrim
- June 8
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- Erik Larsen aims to portray real-life - including COVID-19 - in milestone Savage Dragon #250
- Highways run red through America's Heartland in Percy & Schoonover's Devil's Highway
- Best Shots Rapid-Fire Reviews: Detective Comics #1022, Red Mother #5, more
- Dirt 5 is a cocktail of speed, podcasts and two of the most famous vocal cords in gaming
- Artemis Fowl preview: Does Kenneth Branagh’s sprite fight adaptation have the magic to be the next Harry Potter?
- June 5
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- Who is Catwoman and Batman's daughter? Her history explained
- What's the funniest game you've ever played?
- Steve Geppi explains how and why DC's 25-year exclusive agreement with Diamond ended
- The next Destiny 2 expansion may finally resolve a story 7 years in the making
- Best Shots Review: Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys: The Death of Nancy Drew #1 'solid but standard noir story' (7/10)
- Best Shots Review: Force Works 2020 #3
- I am the one who rocks: El Camino’s composer on bringing the Breaking Bad saga to a fitting end
- If Found… left me moved, overwhelmed and ready to experience it all over again
- E3 2020 schedule: Where, when, and how to watch every gaming showcase
- June 4
- June 3
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- Elder Scrolls Online dev talks Google Stadia port
- Best Shots Review: Birds of Prey #1 'disappointing' (3/10)
- Best Shots Review - Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed 'a welcome reminder of hope'
- Return to Svetlana Chmakova's Nightschool with YA Series, The Weirn Books
- Best Shots Review: Bog Bodies 'a harrowing tale' (9/10)
- Project Cars 3 is trying to be the racing sim that will appeal to everyone
- XCOM 2's utilitarian strategy is how I'm coping with lockdown
- One of Stadia's most anticipated features is launching in beta alongside its ambitious new exclusive, Crayta
- Best Shots Review - November: The Gun in the Puddle (9/10)
- We need to see black female characters promoted from supporting characters to starring protagonists in video games
- Black Lives Matter: Here's what you can do to help
- June 1
