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May 31
- Most iconic LGBTQIA+ superheroes in comic books
- The 32 greatest Brad Pitt movies
- This paper-folding puzzler about leaving home is beautifully, maddeningly satisfying
- Concord and Astro Bot look great, but are a symptom of the weird year PlayStation and the PS5 is having
- New on Netflix: 7 movies and shows you have to watch this July
- I'm replacing my therapist with this chaotic FPS game where gunplay is secondary to the act of kicking enemies in the face
- I was a PlayStation fanboy, but Sony has lost me to PC this generation
- Star Wars' Daisy Ridley talks her new, inspirational sports movie: "It's been 100 years – many of us did not know of Trudy Ederle before"
- New on Netflix: 7 movies and shows you have to watch this June
- It really feels like Nintendo might just coast directly into the Switch 2, doesn't it?
- Build your tribe in Soulmask while possessing NPCs to learn new skills and survive in an ancient land
- 20 years on, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón and producer David Heyman reflect on taking the series in a darker direction
May 30
- The best X-Men comics to read after X-Men '97
- Excalibur is the codename for Baldur's Gate 3 studio's next RPG - join us as we speculate wildly on what it could be
- I played Still Wakes the Deep and it feels like Outlast with a Lovecraftian twist, all set on an oil rig that's trying to kill me
- This magical action RPG blends monster slaying with Persona-like social stats for a beautiful relaxation escape
May 29
- The 32 greatest Tom Cruise movies
- Strategy RPG Unicorn Overlord supposedly takes 60 hours to beat – it took me 240 and is now one of my favorite games of all time
- From the Xbox Games Showcase I'm hoping for a little less conversation and a little more action, please
- The Ultimates #1 review: Earth's mightiest heroes must assemble once more in Marvel's new flagship super-team book
- Predicting the games of Summer Game Fest 2024: What we expect to see from each of the major publishers
- 20 years on, there's been no better adaptation of DC's Justice League than Bruce Timm's TV show
- How to hide and seek with Sneak Out's free to play stealthy fun
May 28
- New York City is full of mutants in need of a protector in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles superhero spin-off Nightwatcher
- Hands-on with Destiny 2: The Final Shape: The campaign is way better, and Prismatic feels broken even if Bungie says it isn't
- Destiny 2's lead gun guy answers our biggest questions about The Final Shape: new weapon mods, the next raid DPS meta, and just "a small amount of power creep"
- XDefiant is a throwback to a golden generation of Call of Duty
May 27
- This Hellblade 2 moment will be living in my head and heart rent-free forever, and it proves the game a metaphorical masterpiece
- Following a year-long hiatus "to deliver the absolute best experience possible," MultiVersus is coming back better than ever
- I spent two hours in Frostpunk 2 and the children only went feral once, so I'm taking that as a win
May 24
- The 32 greatest movies that audiences hated (and critics loved)
- Nearly 10 years later, one of my absolute favorite sandbox games is back, and more complex than ever
- I can't stop thinking about this beautiful, haunting twin-stick shooter that follows a ghost searching for answers
- Why Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula is and always will be the best adaptation of the legendary Bram Stoker novel
- The Alters feels like a perfect mix of sci-fi survival with the multiversal chaos of Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Chris Hemsworth's brilliant turn in Mad Max prequel Furiosa proves he's the most impressive actor to emerge from the MCU
- As Furiosa hits cinemas, we reflect on 9 years of Mad Max: Fury Road
- Sting director talks Xenomorphs and Alien's influence, finding laughs in scares, and the spider horror movie’s killer opening sequence
- What kind of games benefit the most from Reflex and lower latency?
- Furiosa ending explained: your biggest questions about the Mad Max movie answered
May 23
- Hunt or be hunted in Sneak Out, a spooky six player free to play hide and seek party game
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 – Everything we know so far
- How Assassin's Creed Shadows can use the history of samurai and shinobi to make a series-best experience
- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is an amazing throwback to iconic Nintendo storytelling and I'm almost glad I missed it the first time around
- There’s a video-game character in Inside Out 2… and five other things we learned on a visit to Pixar
May 22
- After playing Star Wars Jedi Survivor, I'm even more excited about the prospect of dual protagonists in Star Wars Outlaws
- The 32 greatest movies that critics hated (and audiences loved)
- Here's how Nightdive "brought the horror back to System Shock" in its remake of the sci-fi FPS classic
- Yes Anya Taylor-Joy only has 30 lines in Mad Max prequel Furiosa, but that's for the best
May 21
- Dev of open-world RPG hiding a whole base builder is "impressed" by games like Factorio and Satisfactory, but says Arknights: Endfield "will be quite different"
- This upcoming "thirst-person shooter" takes inspiration "from a wide range of reality shows" like Terrace House, The Real World, and Love Island
- Welcome to Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
May 20
- "Superman is my number one": My Adventures with Superman showrunner opens up about her love of the Man of Steel and writing Superman's new comic
- Is the Elite Series 2 controller still worth it in 2024?
- Goodbye over-encumbrance! The best thing about Starfield's May update is greatly increasing my carry capacity
- Playing Hades 2 in Early Access is the best way to experience Supergiant's evolving roguelike
May 17
- The 35 greatest Saturday Night Live sketches
- College Football 25 preview: Ultimate Team debuts while past favorites return
- Prime Day Asus ROG Ally deals 2024: all the best offers we've found this year
- What still stands out to me about Hi-Fi Rush isn't the bombastic music, but the quiet anger
- Who is Assassin's Creed Shadows' protagonist Yasuke? The history behind the first Black Samurai explained
- This eldritch horror spin on a Stardew Valley-like farming game is even darker than I expected it to be
- 20 years ago, this controversial X-Men rip-off changed the superhero TV landscape for the better
- Doctor Who stars break down every episode of Ncuti Gatwa's first season, from the Bridgerton episode to a "huge" finale
May 16
- My favorite show of 2023 is getting a second chance at alien life on Netflix
- Everything you need to know about MTG Assassin’s Creed
- Lego and Wizards of the Coast tell us how Red Dragon's Tale went from dream to reality
- 25 years after The Phantom Menace, it's time for Jar Jar Binks's redemption
- I can't wear the best armor in RPGs because it makes me feel like an idiot – now I've rejected Fashion Souls and embraced the schlub meta
- Prime Day Steam Deck deals 2024: the best discounts still live
- Is it just me, or do boxing movies hit harder than the sport itself?
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has two major features that made me fall in love with Syndicate, and nothing could excite me more
- Where to pre-order Assassin’s Creed Shadows
- Save the world from supervillains in Capes, an XCOM-style superhero tactics game, coming to consoles and PC on May 29
May 15
- X-Men '97: All the Easter eggs, cameos, and references
- The 32 greatest summer blockbusters
- Best Meta Quest accessories 2024: upgrade your VR loadout
- Wicked director unpacks his version of Oz in the movie musical's new trailer: "We had to stick our necks out and sometimes be scared of what people would think"
- Whether or not the new Resident Evil 9 rumors are real is beside the point – it's clear what Capcom has to do next
- How the systems in Marvel's Midnight Suns and XCOM 2 influenced Jake Solomon's next-gen life sim
- X-Men '97 finale post-credits scene explained – here's how it sets up season 2
May 14
- Replaying Hellblade right before Hellblade 2 makes it feel more like a prequel, and I can't wait for Senua's Sacrifice to become Senua's Saga
- From Annatar to Barad-dûr, here's every Easter egg you missed in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 trailer
- Marvel's Midnight Suns and XCOM dev is looking to reinvent the life sim genre with newly-formed Midsummer Studios: "the whole point is player-storytelling"
- Roger Corman interview: reflecting on his heroes and inspiration
May 13
- The secret to a wood-only Manor Lords run is tax avoidance and lying to your villagers
- New T’au Empire models give Kroot the makeover they deserve
- I returned to Dragon's Dogma 2 after taking a break, only to be faced with the toughest RPG challenge ever
- Graphic novel Dying Inside is a new "supernatural emo-fantasy thriller" co-written by Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz
- How to connect your Steam Deck to your TV
- Marvel's answer to Overwatch issues apology for leaked contract that would have banned streamers from saying anything bad about the game
May 10
- X-Men '97 seems to be setting up the villain that killed the Avengers and Fantastic Four
- The 34 greatest movies from the 2010s you forgot about
- From Doomsday to Doc Ock, the 25 best comic book supervillains of all time
- This Twilight Zone Day, I can’t stop thinking about two of the show’s eeriest episodes
- As Russell T Davies returns for a new season of Doctor Who, here’s what he had to say about his first ever episode
- Challengers star Josh O’Connor swaps tennis for grave-robbing in new indie movie with a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score
- "I need Wonder Woman to be a rebel. I need her to be against the systems that are in place now." Tom King on why Diana Prince is a different sort of superhero to Batman and Superman
- It's not even been in Early Access a full week, but Hades 2 is already my GOTY until further notice
- This cat-shaped sandbox adventure offers up the purrfect playground to get lost in
- Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor Who season ups the stakes with its new villains, and I couldn’t be happier to see it
May 9
- Crow Country scratches that PS1 survival horror itch, but it's also the perfect game for a total genre newbie
- A new anime adaptation of a beloved manga feels like a classic Marvel comic in the best way, and it may cure your superhero fatigue
- After seeing the Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure, I've never felt so ready for Shadow of the Erdtree
- The best wireless gaming headsets 2024
- I went to war in Manor Lords all so my city-builder civilians could get a proper drink
May 8
- The 32 greatest movie sequels
- One Piece's latest twist is a perfect encapsulation of the series - and something that Eiichiro Oda has been building towards from the start
- I finally started playing as Baldur's Gate 3's most popular Origin character and I was not disappointed
- Stellar Blade is basically a PS2 game, and I mean that as a compliment
- I test Steam Deck docks for a living, but I'd still rather have one of these gaming monitors
May 7
- 25 years after its release, The Mummy still has one of the most undeserved Rotten Tomatoes scores of all time
- Skyrim mods have been downloaded over 6 billion times from the biggest modding site – will anything ever come close to the RPG's stunning legacy?
- I lost interest in Dragon's Dogma 2 after 85 hours, so I decided to nuke my playthrough with the infamous RPG mechanic that most players resent
May 6
- James Gunn might've just revealed the secret villain of his Superman movie - and there's some notable comic history behind it
- Almost 20 years later, I still want a remake of the PC simulation game that turned me into a Hollywood movie mogul and rocked my world
- Shooting Nazis in the arse while lying flat out in the prone position in the middle of my living room might be the best video game experience I've ever had
May 3
- The Nintendo 3DS and Wii U’s real legacy is how they brought players together
- The 33 greatest Dwayne Johnson movies
- I'm obsessed with Magic: The Gathering now, and it's all Arena's fault
- Get Fury #1 is brutal, uncompromising, and not much fun in its gruesome first issue
- Dragon's Dogma 2 may be light on romance, but that hasn't stopped me turning the action RPG into a dating sim
- The Rey movie has the perfect opportunity to right Star Wars’ biggest wrong, and give John Boyega’s Finn the story he deserves
- Children of the Sun is a grimy puzzle shooter about a psychic sniper and one magic bullet
- The best Steam Deck accessories 2024: handy handheld add-ons
- Love Lies Bleeding star Katy O'Brian talks facing her fears and working with Kristen Stewart on gory thriller from Saint Maud's Rose Glass
May 2
- Old Man Logan: The Wolverine story that could bring Hugh Jackman into the MCU
- Starfield's May update just convinced me to try this RPG again, and all it took was proper maps and The Sims-like ship decorating
- This graffiti-filled, anime-inspired 3D platformer oozes personality with its mix of Japanese pop culture inspirations
- I keep replaying the Casino Royale-style part of Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty to fulfill my spy RPG fantasy
- This gaming phone has a dedicated display chip, liquid cooling, and a 120Hz refresh rate
- The Fall Guy post-credits scene explained: who are those cameos?
May 1
- 10 essential Free Comic Book Day releases to pick up from your local comic shop this Saturday
- Inside the cutesy, cuddly serial killer thriller that has taken the comics world by storm
- 32 must-see low budget movies
- I held out for Fallout 4's next-gen update, but the biggest draw of the RPG coming to PS5 is unexpectedly the trophies
- Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, and The Fall Guy team talk about unusual inspirations and hopes for many sequels
- Stardew Valley modders on the pressures and positives of the 1.6 update: "So many things which once required complex code patches are now simple"