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May 2021

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May 28
- Savage new fantasy comic Barbaric thrives in blood, guts, gore, and humor
- Boy Scouts in the apocalypse: Inside Scout's Honor with writer David Pepose
- Far Cry 6 ups the ante with new weapons, new gear systems, and yes, more murderous animal companions
- Thelma & Louise at 30: Where are all the on-screen female duos?
- Have you tried… using Pikmin-like creatures to solve puzzles and save the world in The Wild at Heart?
- A Quiet Place 2: On the set of the hushed horror with John Krasinski and Emily Blunt
- 5 things we learned about Horizon Forbidden West gameplay from State of Play
- A Quiet Place 2 ending explained: your biggest questions answered
May 27
- Checkmate is DC's answer for the dirty work Justice League could never do
- "Nothing prepares you for the monsters": House of Ashes is channeling Arnie and Aliens for its Dark Pictures threequel
- Death's Head: From "throwaway" Transformers character to Marvel cult hero
- Why we love anti-heroes, explained by an expert
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition's photo mode captures the beauty of the graphical enhancements
May 26
- The top Marvel Comics character debuts - 1980 to 1989
- Why people are returning to Battlefield Firestorm two years on from launch
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade: Episode Intermission is full of action and fun nods to the original
May 25
- The secret origin of Faith Erin Hicks, creator of The Nameless City and more
- What order should you play the Resident Evil games in?
- World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Classic will let players relive the magic of Outland, right down to its launch day chaos
- Shadow and Bone books: the major differences between the Netflix show and the novels
- From Shogo to Shadow of War: Charting the chaotic, creative history of Monolith Productions
- Shadow and Bone season 1 ending explained: your biggest questions answered on the finale
May 24
- How Loki grew out of being a villain with Journey Into Mystery
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition: The trials and tribulations of once again keeping my fish alive in Mass Effect 2
- Returnal doesn't need a save system, it needs you to embrace mortality
- "The outrage was ridiculous": How Raven Software made one of the most controversial shooters of its time with Soldier of Fortune
- Zack Snyder’s best movies, ranked!
May 21
- Get to know LGBTQ+ hero Aaron Fischer before his United States of Captain America #1 debut
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition reminded me that I'm still not over the first game's Feros mission
- Looking back at R-Type 2, the arcade sequel that struggled to escape the shadow of its own legacy
- Army of the Dead ending explained: your biggest questions answered
- How No Man's Sky pulled off the coolest easter egg of 2021
- Have you tried… traveling through someone’s memories in Before I Forget?
- Cruella: Emma Stone reframes the narrative of an iconic villain
- Is the JRPG in danger of leaning too far into its niche?
May 20
- Young Squadron transforms Miles Morales, Kamala Khan, and Sam Alexander into all-new, all-different heroes
- Resident Evil Village is the best Resi game for scaredy cats, and I've tried them all
- Warzone Season 3 Reloaded's Power Grab mode is another perfect blend of battle royale and Call of Duty bombast
May 19
- Destiny 2 transmog could be great but it's a painful grind right now
- Why Arkane's ultra stylish PS5 shooter Deathloop is so much more than just Dishonored with bigger guns
- After Resident Evil 7 reinvented the series Resident Evil Village falls back on old Resi cliches
May 18
- How a Black Superman can finally make him The Man of Tomorrow
- Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft is a D&D horror masterclass you need on your shelf
- Enlisted is the perfect next-gen shooter to keep you busy until Battlefield 6
- Has Epic transformed character creation for good with its new MetaHuman Creator tool?
- Skin Deep is a first-person shooter about rescuing cats, doing the splits, and sneezing in space
May 17
- Spider-Gwen gets her Batgirl on with Heroes Reborn: Night-Gwen thanks to Vita Ayala & Farid Karami
- Dreamlike, challenging, and terrifying: Saturnalia wants to send you on a survival-horror holiday to Sardinia
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition reminds us where Mass Effect: Andromeda lacked most – its characters
- Destiny 2: Season of the Splicer essential weapons
- Subnautica: Below Zero shows why not all survival games should front-load their storytelling
May 14
- New Shang-Chi ongoing comic will connect his entire new mythology with the Marvel Universe
- Every Saw movie, ranked! From the original Saw to Spiral
- Spiral ending explained by Saw director Darren Lynn Bousman
- Army of the Dead: Inside Zack Snyder’s first post-Justice League project
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition review-in-progress: Still slaps... but now in 4K
- Have you tried… blinking your way through the poignantly moving Before Your Eyes?
May 12
- The Mexican-American hero Reptil prepares to be Marvel's "next biggest hero"
- "The PS5 expanded the possibilities of game development": Leading developers assess the first six months of PS5
- Xbox believes Game Pass is becoming a "central aspect of people's gaming lives" and it has the data to back it up
- Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart preview: Hilarity and hijinks with the most persuasive PS5 showcase so far
- Scarlet Nexus is doing with its futuristic cityscape what Cyberpunk 2077 couldn’t
- Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids offers a bountiful array of new gear and plenty of mystery
May 11
- Inside Bone author Jeff Smith's exploration of the secret origin of the human race in Tuki
- We've got questions about why DC's new superhero the Monkey Prince hates superheroes - spoilers
- Commenting rules and guidelines on GamesRadar+
- Mass Effect retrospective: How BioWare's focus on choice, consequence, and compelling characters helped kickstart an RPG revolution
- Hood: Outlaws & Legends is a refreshingly unbalanced multiplayer experiment that threatens to steal hours of your time
- Spiral director discusses bringing back the Saw franchise with Chris Rock – just don't call this Saw 9
May 10
- Inside the DC Comics celebration of Asian superheroes and Asian creators with editor Jessica Chen
- Six months on, Xbox Series X is a great console in need of games to showcase its power
- Twelve Minutes gives you one apartment, three celebrities, and a time loop to play with
- Best projector screens 2024 - make your projected games and movies shine
May 7
- New Pokemon Snap makes me more excited than ever for the open world of Pokemon Legends Arceus
- Jupiter's Legacy ending explained: your biggest questions answered on the finale
- Jupiter's Legacy timeline explained: unraveling the new Netflix show's twin timelines
- How scary is Resident Evil Village?
- Have you tried… being a jerk cloud in Rain On Your Parade?
- Mortal Kombat movie ending explained: your biggest questions answered
- Mortal Kombat 2: What we want from a Mortal Kombat movie sequel
May 6
- Who is Peter Parker without Spider-Man? Heroes Reborn: The Amazing Shutterbug answers that question
- Returnal Ending Explained: How Housemarque’s devastating story hides in plain sight
- Mythic Quest: The Apple TV Plus show returns – more experimental than ever
- The fun of Animal Crossing: New Horizons comes to Genshin Impact with the Serenitea Pot housing system
- Jupiter's Legacy: The Netflix show about the next generation of superheroes
- WarioWare meets Kubrick in Card Shark, a card game like no other
- Is it just me, or are there no good horror boogeymen anymore?
May 5
- Al Ewing opens up about Marvel's New Age of Space and its ties to Guardians of the Galaxy, SWORD, X-Men, Immortal Hulk, more
- Who is President Superman of the DC Universe?
- The 10 things they never tell you about building a gaming PC
- Age of Empires 2 was the first strategy game I played and it's helping me connect with family again
- Best Star Wars comic books of all time
May 4
- New Batman villain Miracle Molly is the anti-Joker … and that is a good thing
- "We send each other holiday cards": Meet the Battlefield megalodon hunters searching for the series' biggest secrets
- "It has been a lifeline": How games have helped school children stay connected over lockdown
May 3
- Way of X #3 built up as The Morning After the 'Hellfire Gala' festivities according to Si Spurrier
- These are the fictional video game bars I want to drink at right now
- Star Wars: The Bad Batch interview: "Clone Wars was the wind-up, this is knocking it out of the park", says Dee Bradley Baker