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- January 31
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- Captain America: Brave New World – The comic history of The Leader, the mysterious Gamma-powered mastermind hiding in the shadows
- From blacksmith's forge to the king's court, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II lets you shape your medieval tale
- As BioWare's focus shifts to Mass Effect 5 amid layoffs, it feels like the bittersweet end of an era for Dragon Age
- Build a tavern with your pals in Stewpot, a cozy worldbuilding TRPG
- The 33 greatest Will Smith movies
- Should you buy XR glasses or a VR headset in 2025?
- Live from New York… it's nervous laughter! How Ghostbusters' Jason Reitman nails the all-too-rare dread-inducing comedy with new Saturday Night Live movie
- After 11 years, The Sims 2 returns with a re-release on the EA App and Steam – and it's still as wonderfully janky as it was in 2004
- Wilmot Works It Out might be the perfect puzzle game if you hate Jigsaws as much as I do
- Toilet humor, open-worlds, and "billions" of weapons: Borderlands 4 is pushing the looter-shooter series further than ever before
- January 30
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- If Nintendo wants Switch 2 to beat Switch 1, all it needs to do is stop pretending the Wii U wasn't its best console and bring back its most defining feature
- Projector throw ratio explained: how to find the perfect spot for your device
- Grant Morrison, Matt Fraction, and Zoe Thorogood's tales chill in Ice Cream Man's One-Page Horror Stories special
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man's genius twist on classic villain Norman Osborn is the culmination of decades of storytelling
- Wuchang Fallen Feathers wants to pick up where Dark Souls left off: "If skilled players still rely on the HUD... the combat system has a significant problem"
- Action roguelike Ravenswatch marks its Nintendo Switch release by dropping its first major free update
- After survival games like Conan Exiles, Funcom says it's made "a game with its own identity" out of Dune: Awakening – and I believe it
- Break!! TRPG's moral alignment system is far more relaxed than D&D and reminds me why I love tabletop all over again
- After 6 hours with Assassin's Creed Shadows, here's the 10 details I love the most so far
- D&D Unearthed Arcana teases psionically bonded Dragon Knights, frigid incorporeal Rangers bursting through enemies, and Rogues teleporting on a bloodlust high
- January 29
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- The 32 weirdest TV spin-offs
- Sonic 4: Everything we know so far about Sonic the Hedgehog's next adventure
- Fire Force season 3 release date, trailer, and everything we know so far
- After replaying the best Assassin's Creed RPG, I hope Shadows uses the series' strengths to separate itself from Ghost of Tsushima
- Green Lantern Corps: Jeremy Adams and Morgan Hampton on John Stewart, Hawkwoman, and how the Justice League animated series inspired their new comic
- Supergirl release date, cast, plot, and trailer speculation: Everything we know about the DCU movie
- I cooked recipes from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and made some wonderful fishcakes – and got food poisoning
- Over 20 years of muscle memory made Metal Gear Solid Delta feel like I was just playing the original – and MGS heads like me know that's truly special
- Why Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is a hidden gem in the PC Game Pass library
- As I await Baldur's Gate 3 patch 8, I'm already planning my next run around a cosmic new subclass
- January 28
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- Captain America: Brave New World - The comic history of Giancarlo Esposito's mysterious villain Sidewinder
- Assassin's Creed Revelations was good actually, and it's the unhinged sauce the Animus Hub needs to twist my mind into the perfect lore-absorbing shape
- Fable's reboot remains shrouded in mystery – but that's the most exciting thing about it
- Oscars 2025 predictions: who will win Best Picture, Best Director, and the major acting awards?
- Exoborne is striving to be an approachable open-world extraction shooter with a strategic edge: "I don't think there's anything quite like it"
- Nosferatu director Robert Eggers is making a sequel to one of my favorite childhood movies Labyrinth – and I have the perfect nightmarish storyline in mind
- I visited D&D HQ to see the 2025 lineup, and it includes everything from Eberron to the return of a classic adventure
- Electric guitar battles are cool, but Death Stranding 2's real secret weapon? The fear of slipping down a sandy dune
- The Blood of Dawnwalker: Everything we know so far
- January 27
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- Smash Bros meets Metroidvania in Possessor(s), Heart Machine's new side-scrolling opus
- Assassin's Creed Shadows channels The Sims with its customizable base: "It's good to have a home and a place where you feel at ease"
- Celebrating 10 years of Dying Light's horror legacy: "We were doubting ourselves a little, and then the players stepped in"
- Will Superman save the day? James Gunn's upcoming DC movie will make or break the new DCU
- Yasuke not being an assassin in Assassin's Creed Shadows is nothing new, it's just the first time Ubisoft isn't in denial
- If you want to play a guy called Kliff who kicks people off cliffs, Crimson Desert is going to be the game for you
- After re-watching the Highlander TV show and movies, I started imagining what a modern-day game adaptation could look like - and now I want it
- With Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Chinese studio Leenzee aims to soar to the heights of its field
- January 26
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- “Atmosphere is more important than aesthetics”: Bionic Bay is a biomech platformer that’ll grip you from the get-go
- "Player expression" has been vital for Two Point Museum, whether you're displaying captured ghosts or frozen cavemen in your dream exhibit
- 10 years later, Dying Light's night time psychological warfare is still one of the strongest hooks in horror gaming history
- January 25
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- Katamari Damacy creator's next game is all about being normal while stuck t-posing at the same time
- Ghost of Yotei will build on Ghost of Tsushima with guns, a gorgeous change of scenery, and "unexpected dangers"
- Reject modernity, embrace old games: 2025 is going to be the year I finally embrace my inner retro gaming sicko without apology
- January 24
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- The director behind one of anime's most extraordinary films manages to completely subvert my expectations with latest coming-of-age adventure: "Having a secret was really important"
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man release schedule: When is episode 3 on Disney Plus?
- What is the most Oscar-nominated movie of all time?
- Adrien Brody and the cast and director of The Brutalist on their Oscar-nominated movie: "To make great cinema, you have to be vulnerable"
- 35 classic movies based on novels
- inZOI's "community simulation" approach to the life sim genre could make it The Sims 4's biggest rival yet
- Microsoft has added support for a ridiculous amount of storage for Xbox users, but it's content creators who should be taking note
- "Death Stranding was a huge inspiration for us!": More than an evolution of QWOP, Baby Steps is stumbling along its own path
- What to expect from PC gaming in 2025: more breakout hits and a GTA 6-shaped elephant in the room
- I went into Aloft expecting a Stardew Valley meets Studio Ghibli experience, but I left impressed by its whimsical take on the survival genre instead
- Assassin's Creed Shadows evolves on Syndicate's twin dynamic: "It would have been better if we pushed the two characters much further apart"
- January 23
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- The Absolute Wonder Woman gets her arm back in the most metal way possible
- GTA 6 could learn a weird thing or two from Rockstar's most unloved PSP game
- Should you buy a gaming tablet in 2025?
- Assassin's Creed Shadows: Everything we know about Ubisoft's new RPG
- Big Preview: Assassin's Creed Shadows – Exclusive access and hands-on impressions with the huge open world Japan's impressive stealth and combat
- Assassin's Creed Shadows hands-on: Stealthier and bloodier than ever
- Dune 3: Everything we know so far about Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Messiah
- It's a travesty that the Oscars has snubbed Denis Villeneuve twice in a row, but Dune 3 could be his Return of the King
- "With Arc Raiders, we wanted to lean into some of the contemporary conversations around robots and AI": Embark Studios talk creating an extraction shooter with bite
- Samsung's long-awaited VR headset smells like an Apple Vision Pro rival, but Asus seems to be cooking up something better
- I was terrible at The Witcher 3 until I read the books – now I'm itching for The Witcher 4
- The Night Agent season 2 ending explained: Who dies in the Netflix show? Will there be a season 3?
- The Night Agent season 3: everything you need to know about the hit Netflix show's upcoming return
- January 22
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- The 32 greatest sci-fi horror movies
- Mafia: The Old Country is one to watch for anyone who plans to obey traffic laws in GTA 6
- The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, Fallout 4 and more turn 10 this year, showing just how massive 2015 was for games
- Monster Hunter Wilds is already shaping up to be a multiplayer powerhouse that defines 2025
- Rockstar, please: I need GTA 6's map to have more of San Andreas' backwater bliss
- I'm gaslighting myself into thinking the Switch 2 will make my Nintendo backlog smaller
- January 21
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- Please understand, I can't wait to taste a Nintendo Switch 2 game
- Phantom Blade Zero is a "kung fu punk" action RPG that wants to follow in the footsteps of Black Myth Wukong: "there's a lot of pressure on us, but I think in a good way"
- Hellboy creator Mike Mignola introduces a new folk horror shared world in Bowling With Corpses that will "Take inspiration from old stories and make them our own"
- I'm late to the party, but ewe were all right - Cult of the Lamb is fast-becoming one of my favorite roguelikes
- Extraction shooter Exoborne's extreme weather makes the world "a playground of verticality, unexpected discoveries, and dangerous combat spaces"
- Canceled TV shows in 2025: every series that has been scrapped by Netflix, Apple, Disney Plus, and more this year
- Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is bringing Don't Nod back to its Life is Strange roots, and nothing could excite me more
- January 20
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- After 3 years away from The Sims 4, it's finally the game I've been waiting to play
- Invincible season 3 release schedule: When is episode 1 on Prime Video?
- It's time to stop calling Marvel Rivals an Overwatch 2 killer now that its features have already surpassed it
- Dying Light: The Beast is blending atmospheric horror with over the top co-op absurdity in 2025: "It's almost unachievable to keep the horror vibe and still have four players when one is teabagging a zombie"
- Killing Floor 3 is bringing us gloriously gory co-op FPS action in 2025, and Tripwire says it's "at its best when you are just barely surviving"
- January 19
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- My poor amiibo deserve a chance to shine on the Nintendo Switch 2
- The Alters is a "journey of discovery" that will have you asking one of life's biggest questions in 2025
- South of Midnight's gothic folk tale could be Xbox's ace up the sleeve for 2025
- Nintendo Switch 2 could be more like the Wii U than you realize, and I'd say that's a good thing
- 9 years after Apple helped create our Bluetooth nightmare, Nintendo Switch 2 is sticking with a real headphone jack and I couldn't be happier
- January 18
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- Faraway is a minimalist outer space puzzle game that was inspired by high level Tetris mastery
- Mario Kart 9 should step it up a gear by celebrating more of Nintendo's biggest franchises
- I’m hyped for the Nintendo Switch 2’s rumored mouse sensor, even though I’ll probably never use it
- 23 years later, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is set to revitalize the bounty hunter on Switch, just as the original did on GameCube
- Is the Switch 2 set up for success in a post-Steam Deck world?
- 100 years on, it's time one of Universal Monster's best ghouls gets the Nosferatu treatment
- January 17
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- Marvel Rivals has recaptured the silliness of Overwatch's first beta, and it's all thanks to the beefy boys
- Meet The Angriest Dog in the World: David Lynch's bizarre, long-running weekly comic strip
- Avatar 3 release date, cast, story, and everything else you need to know
- New haunted house horror Presence is unlike anything you've seen before – and cements Steven Soderbergh as one of our most interesting filmmakers
- Revenge of the Savage Planet hopes to follow in the footsteps of Metroid Prime
- Severance season 2 release schedule: When is episode 4 on Apple TV Plus?
- 32 underrated action movies
- The 10 best David Lynch movies and shows of all time
- Former BioWare devs' new RPG Exodus will potentially age your loved ones while you're away: "Decisions a player makes will compound over a significant period"
- Finding lost treasures in this mesmerizing indie game unlocks stories of childlike wonder, and I've never experienced anything like it
- Nosferatu made me want to play a vampire RPG, and I found the perfect upcoming indie game to sink my teeth into
- Switch 2 Spotlight: Get caught up with all the latest on Nintendo's new console
- If the Switch 2's potential matches its aesthetic glow-up, this might be the first time I buy a new console at launch
- Mario Kart 9: rumors and everything else we know about the potential Switch 2 game
- James Gunn's new DCU already features a thriving multiverse, and that's actually its strength
- Silo season 2 ending explained: Does Juliette make it back? What is the safeguard procedure? What's the deal with that last scene?
- Silo season 3: Everything we know about the upcoming return of the hit Apple TV Plus sci-fi show
- January 16
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- Weapon X-Men writer says the high octane story is all about "blockbuster comics" - "Once again, it's time to show movies and video games how it's done"
- Silent Hill: Downpour devs reflect 12 years on: "Stop trying to be Japanese scary, and just be Czech scary"
- After handheld PCs like the Steam Deck cribbed from Nintendo Switch, the Switch 2's new Joy-Cons could harness PC gaming's most powerful weapon: the mouse
- "Giant monster smash city – what a perfect idea!" The King of the Monsters brings the pain in Godzilla vs. America: Chicago
- From final specs to the launch lineup, here's the biggest unanswered questions about the Switch 2
- The Nintendo Switch 2 doesn't have to be as powerful as a Steam Deck for me to love it
- Vinland Saga season 3: release date speculation, story, and everything we know so far
- 10 years since last being a full protagonist, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii turns Majima into a swashbuckling Spider-Man
- Nintendo Switch 2 Direct: Everything we know so far about the April reveal showcase
- Nintendo Switch 2 design – the biggest changes and features revealed so far
- When will Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders go live? Everything you need to know ahead of April
- Upcoming Switch 2 games: Rumored games to release on the new Nintendo console
- Where Winds Meet is a stunning open world adventure set to deliver "the unique charm of wuxia martial arts combat" to the masses
- Nintendo Switch 2 vs Nintendo Switch: How does the newest handheld compare in 2025
- Nintendo Switch 2 backwards compatibility explained
- World of Warcraft artist who worked Catan 6th edition thinks artists who don't "just reproduce a trending style have [...] better chances to be noticed"
- January 15
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- 32 American movie and TV remakes that are actually good
- Daredevil: Born Again - The comic history of the White Tiger, the MCU's newest vigilante
- Cyberpunk 2077's new SmartFrames and overhauled photo mode are a role-playing dream come true
- "Stealth is the engine that makes this": Thick as Thieves is putting a multiplayer spin on everything we love about immersive sims
- I'm replaying my favorite obscure PS2 game and now I miss when movie tie-ins were the norm
- Wanderstop is a cozy management sim about a burned-out warrior who'd much rather be fighting than running a tea shop
- Playing Project Zomboid's long-anticipated Build 42 has turned me into a basement-dwelling chicken farmer
- AI might be the best thing to hit Nintendo Switch 2
- I'm happy the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide introduced bastions, but I wish it did more
- January 14
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- Marvel Rivals: 10 comics that are perfect for fans of the smash hit hero shooter
- 10 things I hope Nintendo learned from its previous consoles ahead of Switch 2
- One small feature in the latest Cyberpunk 2077 update made me fall in love with driving through Night City all over again
- From what we've seen so far, it would be a bad idea to sleep on Don't Nod's Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
- Karate Kid: Legends: Everything we know about the new Karate Kid movie
- Elden Ring Nightreign could be the Fortnite of Soulslikes, but probably not for the reason you think
- I want to call this incredible action game with a harrowing story, bloodthirsty combat, and a psychedelic fantasy world my favorite game – but it doesn’t actually exist
- January 13
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- If you're not playing Marvel Rivals with friends, you're not getting the best of it
- "It's not Escape from Tarkov," but an extraction twist gives open-world roguelike Hyper Light Breaker an edge – plus it comes with one of the best indie games of 2016
- With two not-so secret weapons up its sleeve, Little Nightmares 3 is shaping up to be the "charming horror" event of 2025
- Civilization 7's largest change is proving divisive, but it might fix sandbox strategy's biggest problem: being boring
- January 12
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- “We loved making this into a goofy, irreverent, and kind of chill experience”: Wheel World celebrates bike culture with its vibey open world
- "Climbing is in itself a game, with rules everybody knows": Cairn's tense, strategic ascents are making our palms sweat
- I believe these Nintendo Switch 2 design leaks, and there's one thing hyping me for the next generation
- January 11
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- Den of Wolves' cyberpunk vibes are more than a gimmick, adding greater stakes and complications to the co-op heist genre
- "We don't want to just be the 'Halo meets Portal' team": Splitgate 2 wants to to evolve beyond its inspirations
- GamesRadar's Best of CES: our 9 favorite announcements of 2025's show
- Forget Space Marines, this might be the quintessential Warhammer 40K army set
- January 10
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- Meet Elden Ring's new community hero, the Elder Lord, a 72-year-old gamer with over 700 hours and New Game+7 beaten: "It was impossible, but I did it anyway"
- The 32 greatest heist movies
- Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin on their bittersweet new movie A Real Pain and resisting advice from "a big Hollywood director" to "make a billion dollars" with a happy ending
- If Assassin's Creed Shadows' delay means lessons have been learned from Star Wars Outlaws, I say: let Ubisoft cook
- I visited the set of Severance season 2 and it was a perfect, dystopian dream that serves as a reminder that "the work is mysterious and important"
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a bigger, better historical medieval RPG that could do for the Czech Republic what The Witcher has done for Poland
- James Gunn's DC show Creature Commandos featured plenty of fantastic characters, but that finale proved The Bride is the best of them
- GTA 6 wishlist – everything we want from the next instalment of Grand Theft Auto
- January 9
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- Absolute Batman innovates by presenting us with a Caped Crusader who is still a work in progress
- Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is "a weird-ass postmodern riff" on the PS1 original says Sam Barlow, talking the development 15 years later
- Daredevil: Born Again release date, trailer, plot, and cast
- From lo-fi mechs to little witches, and "ancient horrors beyond imagining", here are six up-and-coming Solo TRPGs to play in 2025
- Doom: The Dark Ages takes the series forward by winding the clock several centuries back
- Saving the world with a baguette? "A joke that went too far," shares Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's creative director, as we talk Final Fantasy, Persona, and more
- Introducing my friends to Project Zomboid ended in disaster, but it's given me a newfound appreciation for the best zombie survival sim around
- January 8
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- The 32 greatest family animation movies that aren't Disney
- "If your cake is trash, nobody wants to eat it": At a tough time for Destiny 2, Bungie drops an Exotic mission promising vampire vibes, a cool shotgun, and a finale with bite
- Aquaman #1: Everything you need to know about Arthur Curry's new power, new mystery to solve, and his place in DC All In
- If Night City is the "main antagonist" of Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 4's Continent could easily follow suit
- Every gaming laptop announced at CES 2025: all 31 rigs compared
- After Alan Wake 2 and Control, FBC: Firebreak represents a bold new frontier for Remedy: "It's time to expand the Remedy Connected Universe into shared spaces and brave something new"
- What to expect from PlayStation in 2025: Classic games, live services, and moving beyond consoles
- I'm sure Sniper Elite Resistance is great for stealth stars, but I turned it into a Nazi-blasting horde shooter and have zero regrets
- Where to buy RTX 5080: cards are moving fast as stock drops
- Wrymspan feels more complex and isolating than Wingspan, but that's just how spelunking goes
- January 7
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- I wish I waited for this stunning Midnight Black PlayStation Portal
- Citizen Sleeper 2 is doubling down on the RPG's tabletop roots, and the new push system already has me sweating
- RTX 5090 vs RTX 4090: How does Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell GPU compare?
- Who is Commander Star? Batman #156 reveals the secret identity of Gotham’s sinister new hero
- Avowed is an RPG that's both the culmination of everything Obsidian has done before, and also an evolution of it: "There's really not a whole lot of our regions that's off limits to the players"
- Atomfall isn't Rebellion's Fallout, it's something far more interesting: "We like to think of it as X-Files in the Cold War Lake District"
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has a survival horror surprise that echoes Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty's – and I loved every second
- 32 movies that inspired Star Wars
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- January 3
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- Angelina Jolie's new movie about a world-famous opera singer is a poignant story of life in the public eye
- Goal Oriented: How do developers invent their own sports – even when they're not too fond of the real thing?
- The 32 greatest Leonardo DiCaprio movies
- BioShock Infinite “may not have been the thing I wanted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t the thing the audience wanted”: Ken Levine guides us through his entire gameography
- 39 years after its final animated episode, cult cartoon SilverHawks is back in a new comic that writer Ed Brisson calls "The Untouchables in space"
- January 2
- January 1
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- "At the time survival horror was changing. 'How action-oriented do we get?'": 16 years on, Tomm Hulett reflects on Silent Hill: Homecoming
- The Making of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth: "I thought: if we just reproduce the original game with no changes, it will feel nostalgic, but not exciting"
- Mr and Mrs Smith was one of the best shows of 2024 and the perfect limited series – let's hope season 2 lives up to it
