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- February 26
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- New Joker series embraces the horror vibe of James Tynion IV's creator-owned titles
- Best Shots review - Black Widow: The Ties That Bind is emotionally devastating
- The secret weapons of Warzone Season 2 absolutely slay, if you can find them
- Batman R.I.P. retrospective: Exploring the story behind one of the Dark Knight's best stories
- PS5 and Xbox Series X shortage explained: why it's so hard to find a console
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus looks to be the open world evolution we've always dreamt of
- Final Fantasy 7 The First Soldier might be the game that finally gets me into battle royale
- Alien franchise brings "cold-sweat panic and can't-look-away horror" to Marvel
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade has me all kinds of excited to relive the adventure again on PS5
- Games like Valheim for Viking voyagers to visit next
- Away from any Horizon Forbidden West and God of War 2 updates, State of Play was a welcome retreat from the PS5 hype cycle
- Have you tried… keeping a relationship afloat on a new planet with Haven?
- Master Rank, Apex monsters, and the Rampage: the Monster Hunter Rise team takes us inside the series' stunning return to handheld
- February 25
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- How WandaVision avoids a major, harmful, and all-too-common trope
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart could be the most subversive adventure yet for the PlayStation duo's PS5 debut
- Best Indiana Jones games to play before the new Bethesda title
- Power Rangers' assassin-turned-Pink-Ranger gets her story told finally
- What will next-gen games deliver in the future?
- What Treyarch learned from Blackout to build its Outbreak Zombies mode for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War season 2
- February 24
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- Harley Quinn aims to re-invent herself and save Gotham in new DC ongoing
- How Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther grapples with heroism and monarchy
- The making of Bravely Default 2, a return to form built on demos, mistakes, and Octopath Traveler
- PS5 launch games: All the PlayStation 5 launch games that arrived day one
- Best Shots review - Captain Marvel: Marvels Snapshot leaves a lot to be desired
- Control: Ultimate Edition proves that PS5 Game Help isn't a next-gen gimmick
- Bests Shots review: X-Men #18 delivers a nearly iconic Wolverine by Asrar
- Odin, Valhalla, and the real Norse myths behind Valheim's 3 million player strong success
- Assassin's Creed Unity may not be the best in the series, but it's the most Assassin's Creed there is
- 10 Best superhero theme songs of all time
- February 23
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- Bendis' Justice League will be the 'central piece' of the DCU
- Best Shots review - Future State: House of El #1 reframes the Superman legacy as a Game of Thrones-esque slice of cosmic fantasy
- Best Shots review: Batman/Superman #2 injects a dose of body horror into Future State
- The Rasputin Resurgence: Why a Just Dance 2 routine has gone viral twice within the last 10 years
- Today's comic book artists honor the greats by using their art supplies
- Best Shots review: Generations Forged is a mishmash of bland superheroics
- The secret origin of Heather Antos
- Best Shots review - Future State: Dark Detective #4 unmissable
- What is Star on Disney Plus? Everything you need to know
- February 22
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- Blizzard wants Overwatch 2 "to be a true sequel" packed with hundreds of co-op missions, hero progression, and a cinematic story mode
- Photo mode in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is excellent and I can't stop taking pictures of cats
- Robin Hood is the bad guy in True Detective-style comic Nottingham
- Overwatch 2 PvP will be "a pretty big departure" from what exists in Overwatch today
- February 20
- February 19
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- Diablo Immortal preview: A competent dungeon crawler that can be enjoyed without thinking too hard
- Why Diablo 2 deserves to be Resurrected
- Best Shots review: Ex Machina hits you in the gut, and the heart
- Have you tried... taking care of a pack of sled dogs and surviving the ice in The Red Lantern?
- BlizzCon 2021 predictions: What to expect from Overwatch 2, Diablo 4, and more
- February 18
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- Black Knight takes on the Avengers in redefining Curse of the Ebony Blade #1
- Best Shots review - Future State: Catwoman #2 delivers a frenzied conclusion
- Best Shots review - Future State: Shazam #2 overly grim
- Best Shots review - Future State: Nightwing #2 delivers an exciting checkmate moment for Dick
- Best Shots review - Future State: Superman: Worlds of War #2 captures a brutal tone for the future
- Marvel's Thor, Assassin's Creed, and Netflix's Vikings: why are we so obsessed with Norse mythology?
- Best Shots review - Future State: Next Batman #4 shines with Batgirls story
- Call of Duty Outbreak could make or break Warzone as it heads into Black Ops Cold War season 2
- Why isn't Nintendo making a bigger deal out of its milestone 2021 anniversaries?
- 25 best Oculus Quest games to lose yourself in
- MY.GAMES and partners reveal results of international mental health survey for gamers
- February 17
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- Best Shots review - TMNT: The Last Ronin #2 as powerful as #1, but not as poignant
- Knockout City is a raucous dodgeball battle from the Mario Kart Live devs and EA
- Best Shots review: X-Men Legends #1 a blast from the '90s past
- The Cruella trailer shows exactly why the 101 Dalmatians villain deserves an origin movie
- Valheim borrows ideas from Dark Souls and The Sims, but abandons survival games' cruelest conventions
- The best Netflix VPN 2021: stream any country's content from anywhere
- Best Fire Stick VPN in 2024: unblock shows and movies on your TV
- Best free VPN 2021: protect yourself online for free
- Exclusive! First look at Shang Tsung in the new Mortal Kombat movie
- February 16
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- Best Shots review - Future State: Immortal Wonder Woman #2 is radiant
- Jock walks us out into the snow for his creepy drama Snow Angels
- Evil Genius 2 wants to be Two Point Hospital for supervillains, but it isn't quite as slick
- If franchises are the future, we could end up with an entirely different entertainment landscape
- Best DOTA 2 VPN for 2021: change locations, protect against DDoS attacks and more
- February 15
- February 12
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- Toph goes solo in new Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novel
- Best Nintendo Switch accessories
- What is Valheim? The latest Steam survival game craze explained
- The Silence of the Lambs at 30: An unsettling horror that's still utterly terrifying
- Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury finally made me a 60FPS snob
- Have you tried... taking over a post-apocalyptic world with plants in Cloud Gardens?
- Have you tried... being a super AI building a base on Mars in Per Aspera?
- Heroes Reborn 2021 is as close to Marvel vs DC 2021 as we're going to get
- February 11
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- X-Men Legends reveals "Luke Skywalker-like story" for Adam-X the Extreme
- Who is the engineer in WandaVision? A look at the leading candidates from Marvel's past (and future)
- Horizon Forbidden West star Ashly Burch says discovering Aloy's PS5 adventure "was like being a kid at a campfire"
- 10 Missing Animal Crossing characters that deserve to arrive in New Horizons
- The Mandalorian shows exactly why Pedro Pascal is perfect to play Joel in The Last of Us
- Best Shots advance review - Assassin's Creed: Blade of Shao Jun manga takes franchise to 16th Century China
- February 10
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- Suicide Squad returns to its roots - but with Peacemaker & Superboy as part of the team
- The Boys' Garth Ennis revisits his DC anti-hero Hitman
- Madden 22 features: 7 changes it needs to make according to fans
- Best Shots review: The insufferable Quentin Quire gets the spotlight in X-Force #17
- Best Shots review: Mr. Negative's big secret falls flat in Amazing Spider-Man #59 - spoilers
- The United Nations has published a video game that could help change the world
- Inside 'Reign of X' and the future of the X-Men with Marvel editor Jordan D. White
- February 9
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- Best Shots review - Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman #2 works when it focuses on the team-up
- Best Shots review - Future State: Green Lantern #2 saved with Teen Lantern back-up story
- Best Shots review - Future State: Teen Titans #2 is visually impressive but frustratingly lacking in story
- Best Shots review - Future State: Robin Eternal #2 turns Tim Drake into a goo-dripping demon
- Best Shots review: Justice League Dark back-up outshines lead story in Future State: Justice League #2
- Best Shots review - Future State: Dark Detective #3 a strong new vision for a Bruce Wayne who is no longer Batman
- Best GTA games, ranked from worst to best
- Is it just me, or is Hoodwinked one of the millennium's best kids' films?
- Hitman 3 has finally made 100% completion something worth striving for
- Why climate scientists think the PS5 and Xbox Series X are still too much of an energy drain
- Ryan Coogler’s Marvel deal reveals where the studio sees its future
- The making of Labyrinth: The Computer Game – "We didn't know how popular it was going to be"
- February 8
- February 5
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- Batman alums Scott Snyder and Tony Daniel create a trucker-centric sci-fi drama in Nocterra
- Best Shots review: Sweet Tooth a gut-wrenching tragedy of plague and suffering
- Wandavision: The dark, strange comic book history of Sparky the dog
- The Battlefield 6 rumors suggests DICE is returning to its roots for PS5 and Xbox Series X, and that's the best news a Battlefield fan could hope for
- Have you tried… learning to let go in the musically magic When the Past was Around?
- Inside Destruction AllStars: Everything you need to know about the first PS5 exclusive of 2021
- February 4
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- Young Hellboy title take the Mike Mignola character back to wide-eyed childhood in The Hidden Land
- The 10 best movies from Sundance Film Festival 2021
- Destruction AllStars is fun, destructive, and too quiet for its own good
- A quiet moment in Assassin's Creed Valhalla made the story hit all the harder
- Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes talk "terrifying" The Dig scene
- Is Disney Plus 4K and HDR?
- February 3
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- Conan the Barbarian enters an unexplored part of the Hyborian Age ahead of Marvel's 300th issue
- Destiny 2 sunsetting is getting messy, but the idea can still be salvaged
- Avengers pilot giant mechs to take on an alien kaiju invasion in Mech Strike
- Golden Globes 2021: The five biggest talking points from the nominations
- Best Shots review - King in Black: Black Knight #1 is a strong take on Dane Whitman and his mythology
- Annelid antics: How Worms made an art of refining a timeless genre
- Redemption in Absolution: Hitman 3 is at its best when applying the lessons of its messier past
- February 2
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- WandaVision: Arnim Zola could be the real villain pulling the strings
- Best Shots review - Future State: Harley Quinn #2 an appropriately chaotic climax
- Best Shots review - Future State: Swamp Thing #2 is dense and atmospheric
- Best Shots review - Future State: The Flash #2 doesn't stick the landing
- Before Destruction AllStars, Lucid Games wanted to resurrect an old PlayStation franchise
- Best Shots review - Future State: Superman of Metropolis #2 a well-rounded look at the city
- Best Shots review - Future State: Wonder Woman #2 is visually stunning
- From Destruction AllStars to Twisted Metal: A brief history of PlayStation's vehicular combat games
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition: 10 most interesting improvements and features coming to the remaster
- Destruction AllStars was delayed on PS5 because of a PS Plus scheduling conflict
- Destruction AllStars will get free characters and modes because it "doesn't want to fragment the playerbase"
- Destruction AllStars brings the spirit of Destruction Derby into the next generation for PS5
- Subnautica: Below Zero empowers the player with more gadgets and narrative momentum, but still makes you feel like a drop in ocean
- Best Shots review - Future State: Next Batman #3 underwhelming considering the pedigree
- The Resident Evil vampire lady may have told us what's going on in Resident Evil Village
- February 1
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- Transformers: Beast Wars reimagined, Marvel Ultimate-style, for new comic book series
- Thor: Love and Thunder: Who is Thunderstrike and what are his powers?
- How Gravity Well, a new studio led by two Titanfall and Call of Duty veterans, wants to "disrupt the status quo" for the next-generation of gaming
- With the future of Devotion uncertain, Red Candle Games is leaving horror behind
