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October 31
- Gotham War: Scorched Earth piles on the revelations but forgets why Batman and Catwoman were even fighting in the first place
- This indie horror game set in my hometown is scary for the most accurate reasons
- The new Loki trailer might have just ruined Marvel's best cliffhanger in years
- I'm a true scaredy-cat, but I still can't get enough of horror games like Until Dawn and The Quarry
- Silent Hill Ascension is the horror origins story we've always wanted, and its Telltale-style public votes promise chaos
October 30
- The Devil That Wears My Face is like The Exorcist meets Face/Off, and it's actually terrifying
- Bloober Team lead talks remaking Silent Hill 2 and "mastering the art of horror"
- The Royal Hotel director Kitty Green on why her new thriller starring Julia Garner is here to break horror movie rules
- Making Moria: behind the new book for The Lord of the Rings RPG and D&D
- Avatar Frontiers of Pandora preview: A beautiful, cluttered, confusing adventure
- 10 scenes that prove The Walking Dead is the most shocking horror comic of all time
October 29
- Remembering Casper: A Haunting 3D challenge, an underrated movie-to-game adaptation
- Karlach's heartache in Baldur's Gate 3 spoke directly to my own isolation, and it caught me totally off guard
October 28
- Honkai Star Rail has finally lost me, but it's made me more motivated than ever to play Genshin Impact
- 23 years later, Hogs of War remains an unlikely turn-based classic from the PS1 era
- The 10 best horror films (that no one thinks are horror films)
October 27
- The 32 greatest Pixar characters
- I'm ready to be creeped out by these new board games for Halloween
- Halloween 2023: Your guide through the spooky season
- 7 ways that Netflix's Bodies is different to the original DC comic
- Why this D&D actual play series featuring the voices of Geralt and FF16's Clive is going to be the next big thing
- Hardhat Wombat is a delightful, "super crappy" puzzle game from the creator of Plants vs Zombies
October 26
- 10 best horror comic artists of all time
- The 32 greatest Samuel L. Jackson movies
- Alan Wake 2's minimum specs have disqualified my gaming laptop, and now I question the financial viability of PC gaming
- From Gone Girl gaffer to Oscar winner: In conversation with David Fincher's cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt
- How Cocoon's silent alien world found its voice with synthetic sound
- Eddie Izzard talks bringing the feminine to Jekyll and Hyde and moving Hammer horror into a new era
October 25
- Dario Argento: In conversation with the horror master
- John Carpenter and star Keith Gordon discuss Christine as it turns 40
- Oops, I've turned Baldur's Gate 3 into a soap opera RPG because I can't stop flirting with everyone
- DualSense Edge vs Victrix Pro BFG: Which PS5 controller should you buy this Black Friday?
- How Marvel's Spider-Man 2 gets to the heart of the character in a way the MCU films can't
- Playing Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria feels like Middle-earth Minecraft
- Five Nights At Freddy's post-credits: How many are there? Do they set up a sequel?
- Five Nights At Freddy's Easter eggs and cameos: all the references you might have missed
- I take my Steam Deck everywhere - here's what I keep in my backpack
October 24
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has such a vibrant open-world that I now want Insomniac to build a GTA 6-rivaling crime sim
- Wombat poo, Magic The Gathering, and a legendary roguelike dev: The maker of Plants vs Zombies is back with a game 10 years in the making
- Why Assassin's Creed Mirage’s Baghdad setting means so much to me as an Iraqi gamer
- Netflix's new anime series Captain Laserhawk feels like the future of video game TV shows
October 23
- Ravonna Lexus Renslayer: The Loki character's Marvel comics history and links to Kang the Conqueror explained
- There's a real-world Easter egg at the end of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 that I need in my life right now
- In my second bard run, I've turned Baldur's Gate 3 into a full-blown musical
- Judge Dredd must solve the mystery of Judge Hershey's murder
October 22
- Going to the circus in Baldur's Gate 3 reminded me of my favorite quest in Dragon Age Inquisition
October 21
- The nostalgia bomb of Assassin's Creed Mirage will help Ubisoft move the series forward
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2 accessibility verdict
- Gen V doesn’t need cameos from The Boys, it’s great enough on its own
October 20
- Meet Spider-Woman's new enemy Green Mamba
- Loki season 2: How Victor Timely's new origin fits with the comic history of Kang
- 32 top movies that are all-time classics, but flopped at the box office
- Killers Of The Flower Moon filmmakers discuss crafting Martin Scorsese's latest masterpiece
- One Peter Parker haircut in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is a deep-cut reference to Spidey's best comic book
- Spider-Man actor on taking Peter Parker to darker places: "It left me exhausted at the end of every working day"
- Moonstone Island is the Pokemon meets Stardew Valley RPG I didn't know I needed
- Foe writer and director explain the movie's one big change from the book, and break down Terrance's motivations
- Who is Balder The Brave? That Loki season 2 episode 3 Easter egg explained
October 19
- The 32 greatest '50s actors
- Lords of the Fallen isn't perfect, but its flashes of Dark Souls 2 and Soul Reaver have lit a bonfire within me
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2's Mister Negative actor says working with Denzel Washington and Jennifer Garner helped bring his character to life
- Giant Robot Hellboy is a triumphant return for artist Duncan Fegredo
- Enter the Talking Angela fashion contest for your chance to win a share of its $10,000 prize pool
- Five Nights at Freddy's director details the difficulty of working with "high maintenance" animatronics
October 18
- Scavengers Reign is basically an alien nature documentary with humans screwing it all up
- Killers Of The Flower Moon editor says this is Leonardo DiCaprio's "best performance"
- Baldur's Gate 3 knocked my RPG halo off, and it's all Astarion's fault
- One early Baldur's Gate 3 romance choice put me on a chaotic and irredeemably evil path
- The 10 best Martin Scorsese movies, ranked
October 17
- These new Tyranid models prove that I was right to avoid the old ones
- 20 years later, it’s time to admit 2003's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a great horror movie remake
- Foe author and director talk twists, AI, and how they originally wanted the movie to be nothing like the novel
- On the Radar: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 – A deep dive into the much-anticipated superhero sequel
- Martin Scorsese says the "love story" is why he wanted to make Killers Of The Flower Moon
- Superior Spider-Man confirms Doctor Octopus' place as Peter Parker's greatest enemy
- The Starfield map is the one thing stopping me from living my spaceflight fantasy
- I beat the hardest challenge in my favorite Steam Next Fest roguelike without firing a single shot, all by repeatedly sacrificing a tiny samurai
- The new Invincible game is like playing your own version of the comic
- Loki season 2 proves that Marvel should keep embracing its anti-hero’s villainous side
- Is it just me, or is this the greatest era for animation?
October 16
- The 10 best superhero games that you should play today
- The game that makes silly people like me feel super intelligent is back after 9 years, and now it's more rewarding than ever
- 32 actors who turned down iconic roles
- There has never been a Batman comic quite as haunting as Arkham Asylum
October 15
- As geeky and delusional as he may be, No More Heroes' antihero is one of the best assassins of all time
October 14
- Starfield's New Game Plus narrative is Bethesda RPG innovation at its finest
- Across the JRPG genre's storied history, Final Fantasy 12 was the most innovative for its time
October 13
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is one of the most ridiculous JRPGs I have ever played
- 32 top actors who still haven't won an Oscar
- Saltsea Chronicles is a beautifully written narrative adventure that captured my heart and refused to let go
- Loki season 2 episode 2 recap and Easter eggs: A big reunion and more chaos at the TVA
October 12
- Viewers beware, you're in for a different kind of scare with the new Goosebumps show
- 260 hours into Baldur's Gate 3, I think it's time we give Act 2 the horror-loving appreciation it deserves
- The 35 greatest fantasy movies
- Assassin's Creed Mirage improves a 14-year-old stealth feature I didn't realize I'd been missing
- Start your engines! Image's Petrol Head is a high-octane sci-fi racer
- Well, The Fall of the House of Usher confirms it: Mike Flanagan hates cats
- How every Usher family member dies in Netflix horror series The Fall of the House of Usher
October 11
- Roblox: Everything you need to know
- The PS5 Slim puts Xbox in a great position for the rest of this console generation
- 15 Steam Next Fest demos you have to play this October
October 10
- Loki director on working with Tom Hiddleston and how season 2 centers on the God of Mischief facing up to his past
- PS5 Slim is real and out in November
- Starfield's exploration would be so much better if I could hop on a Star Wars-style speeder
- V/H/S/85 directors on the supernatural, found footage, and what was acceptable in the '80s
- The best thing about Assassin's Creed Mirage is the return of smoke bombs, and now they're even better
October 9
- It took me 26 years to beat my all-time hardest JRPG nemesis, and now I'm both delighted and devastated
- The Continental director breaks down the finale, John Wick Easter eggs, and teases a potential season 2
- Baldur's Gate 3 and Redfall are two different kinds of proof that we need more vampires in video games
October 8
- Learning to Love Myself as Lara: Gender Euphoria in Tomb Raider
October 7
- Pikachu isn't just a great detective for a Pokemon, but a damn good detective in its own right
October 6
- Follow a more "fierce, ferocious" Matt Murdock in Daredevil: Black Armor
- How Ubisoft transformed Assassin's Creed Mirage protagonist Basim from evil to endearing
- The Exorcist: Believer – Why David Gordon Green and Jason Blum decided to make a new chapter
- Totally Killer director talks new Blumhouse slasher-comedy that’s "Back to the Future meets Scream"
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a cool, downright fun spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio
- The Exorcist: Believer director on the "magical experience" of working with Ellen Burstyn
- Gen V's Jordan Li is the most interesting TV superhero we've seen in years
- Loki season 2 episode 1 recap and Easter eggs: Reunions, new faces and time-bending drama
October 5
- Comic book Loki is now the God and Goddess of Lies - how do they compare to MCU Loki?
- Our Flag Means Death showrunner talks breakups, reconciliations, and an "unbelievable" finale in season 2 of the pirate comedy
- I bounced off Cyberpunk 2077 three years ago, now I can't get enough of it
- My obsession with wind turbines might finally make me a millionaire in Cities: Skylines 2
October 4
- Just call me Captain Space Dork – Starfield's nods to NASA have let me properly nerd out about space
- Assassin's Creed Mirage looks grand, but replaying Valhalla has made me pine for Assassin's Creed Hexe more than ever
- All Baldur's Gate 3 needs now is a transmog feature so my party can be stylish without compromising stats
October 3
- I cannot believe Cyberpunk 2077 still doesn't have a flashlight
- Christopher Lloyd haunts an American institution as Spooky Night: The Spirit of Halloween heads to streaming
- How the passion for the series let Ubisoft Bordeaux take the lead on Assassin's Creed Mirage
- WarioWare: Move It is the Smooth Moves spiritual successor I've always wanted
October 2
- Dark Urge is the canon story of Baldur's Gate 3 and I can prove it
- How rejecting racism, reconnecting with Arabic culture, and a chance phone call helped bring Assassin's Creed Mirage's Basim to life
- Frostpunk was about surviving the end of the world – Frostpunk 2 is about rebuilding its future
October 1
- I can't wait to see where Starfield goes after seeing the growth of RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3
- Assassin's Creed Mirage's narrative director fought to include the Alamut because it's so important for the lore
- With respect to the last decade's blockbuster open world games, GTA Online is still the best of them all in 2023