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April 30
- Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess star in One Day trailer
- Supertrailer: 04/24 - 04/30
- EA announces Need for Speed: The Run
- Converse releasing Super Mario 25th Anniversary sneakers
- 5 reasons to hate Portal
- Marvel Universe Online will be free-to-play, written by Marvel veteran
- Kinect and 360 earn record-high profits for Microsoft
- PopCap Games and Make-A-Wish Foundation help 9-year-old produce iOS game
April 29
- Jeff Bridges could join Ryan Reynolds in R.I.P.D.
- Rumor: Civilization dev's next game is an Unreal powered strategy game
- Game industry wages went up in 2010
- Beyonce sued for allegedly costing 70 game makers their jobs
- GLaDOS should be the voice of EVERY computer
- Jurassic Park: The Game now coming to PS3 and 360, new console-ified trailer inside
- Hulu Plus on Xbox 360 confirmed to launch tomorrow
- Dragon Age II DLC includes new weapons and wardrobes for all classes
- Peyton Hillis wins vote for Madden 12 cover
April 28
- Doctor Who Day Of The Moon Spoiler-Free Preview
- Doctor Whos Karen Gillan Interview Preview
- X-Men: First Class - The Producer Speaks
- Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2 trailer
- Zoo City Wins Arthur C Clarke Award
- Portal 2 DLC to be released this summer
- L.A. Noire to keep casual players safe from harm
- F.E.A.R. 3 pushed back to June
- Rhythm Heaven for Wii ditches waggle, sticks with buttons
- Report: EA loses COO to Zynga
- Portal 2 turret plushie is all heart, zero bullets
April 27
- Neil Gaiman on Doctor Who The Doctors Wife
- Harrison Ford talks Cowboys & Aliens
- Immortals trailer released online
- Jodie Foster reveals details about Neill Blomkamps Elysium
- Sony: Some services to be restored 'within a week,' personal information has been compromised
- Telltale delays Jurassic Park, offers pre-orderers a full refund and free game
- CoD: Black Ops Escalation DLC features 'Call of the Dead,' starring Romero, Trejo, Gellar, and more
- The Avengers - Teaser Promo Pic
- PlayStation tablets announced
- Hydrophobia Prophecy coming to Steam May 9th, PSN later
- Harmonix CEO pledges support for disabled gamers
April 26
- 3DS online game store FINALLY launches in May, brings 3D freebies to get you hooked like a desperate retro crack-head
- Filthy adult No More Heroes remake gets an only partially filthy adult trailer. Though there is brief boob and bum
- Joss Whedon announces the start of The Avengers shoot
- Doctor Who, Misfits And Being Human Get BAFTA Nominations
- The Devils Double trailer online
- Doctor Who Sets Ratings Record For BBC America
- InFamous 2 beta extended due to PSN downtime
- Rumor: PSN outage caused by custom firmware which enabled free PlayStation Store downloads
- Still not in the Gears of War 3 beta? We've got 10 more access codes to give away!
- Portal 2 would have contained a wall-walking gel were it not so nauseating
- PSN remains offline - Sony blames hackers, Anonymous denies responsibility
- Monster Hunter Freedom 3 voted game of the year by Famitsu readers
April 25
- Nintendo confirms new console for 2012, will premier a playable version at E3
- Doctor Who Triple Whammy At Hugo Awards
- Our Idiot Brother trailer debuts
April 24
- Rob Kazinsky won't play dwarf Fili in The Hobbit
- Doctor Who Ratings For "The Impossible Astronaut"
April 23
- Dickens' adap has Great Expectations for Ralph Fiennes
- Ian Holm will reprise his role as Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit
- Savages nabs Uma Thurman and John Travolta
- Supertrailer 04/17 - 04/23
- New Max Payne 3 screenshots feature Payne before and after hair
- Miyamoto on Wii 2: 'Don't ask!'
April 22
- Jeremy Renner will head up The Bourne Legacy
- 30 Minutes Or Less gets a new red band trailer
- Super Mario 3DS out in 2011? Miyamoto says he'll try hard to make it so
- New Duke Nukem Forever trailer is full of everything that makes Duke the man
- Mystery of Valve's bald mascot revealed (mostly)
- Videogame retailers finish first in FTC's undercover study
- Rumor: God of War 4 coming in 2012
- Mega Man Legends 3: Prototype Version launching with 3DS eShop
- Mortal Kombat watches you play, fixes balancing issues when you're not looking
April 21
- Best news since doughnuts got jam: Silent Hill, Resident Evil 4, No More Heroes bosses definitely making more games together
- Batman: Year One adaptation gets a voice cast
- Epic's Mike Capps says 99-cent apps are 'killing' mainstream studios
- Namco has "no say" in Street Fighter x Tekken
- New study prompts media to blame videogames for obesity epidemic
- Sony confirms death of PSP Go
- Angry fans sinking Portal 2's Metacritic user score
- The Last Guardian delayed until 2012
April 20
- Director Craig Gillespie talks Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Matt Reeves set to direct vampire adaptation The Passage
- Crash Bandicoot in CryEngine 2 looks cool. Kinda...
- Two new X-Men: First Class Posters arrive online
- Isla Fisher in talks for Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby
- Japan gets Street Fighter-inspired Scott Pilgrim cover. No Fair!
- Have a gander at the new Call of Duty: Black Ops Escalation maps
- Alice: Madness Returns to include a console port of the original Alice
- Portal 2 Co-op | Full Access Playthrough
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Gotham City cop John Blake in Dark Knight Rises
- EA Sports reveals Madden 12 cover finalists, controversy begins in 3... 2...
- Microsoft changes Xbox Live Indie Games rating system
- Ocarina of Time 3D to feature Boss Challenge, mirrored Master Quest and video tutorials
April 19
- Jason Statham set to star in noir thriller Parker
- Sonic Generations finally gets Sonic's style right. To be this good took AGES
- See Emma Stone in the first trailer for The Help
- Ryan Gosling in talks to join Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger
- Kombat Week: Readers strike back
- Study: Gaming skills improved through mild shocks to the head
April 18
- Bad Idea Corner potentially welcomes the ESRB, as it starts rating games by computer, unjudged by humans until release
- Half-Life reveal teased in Valve's Portal ARG? Clues to appear in The Orange Box? Here's the pant-wetting evidence
- Hugh Jackman's Real Steel being prepped for a sequel
- Superman: Man of Steel plot synopsis leaked online
- Alphas: Writer Reveals Character Details
- Rio flies away with the weekend box office
- JJ Abrams Turns Author Sort Of
- ClassicRadar: Pushing people down steps in GTA IV
April 17
- Brad Bird talks Mission Impossible 4 and 1906
- Nestor Carbonell returning for The Dark Knight Rises
April 16
- 85 Authors Protest At The BBCs Treatment Of Genre Fiction
- Mark Wahlberg adds two more projects to his slate
- Neil Gaiman Q&A
- Supertrailer 04/10 – 04/16
- New Green Lantern trailer has gameplay that's both mean and green
- PAX Prime registration now open, game devs getting exclusive event
- Two Worlds II getting pirate themed expansion
- New Battlefield 3 video teases 'full trailer,' kills us with anticipation
- 2011 Canadian Videogame Award finalists announced
- EA now hiring for unnamed Army of Two title
April 15
- Sleeping Beauty update gets an atmospheric trailer
- Helena Bonham Carter eyeing Great Expectations role
- Action-heavy Cowboys & Aliens trailer lands
- 12-minute Battlefield 3 trailer to be released after one million Facebook 'likes'
- Fact: Activision is not a 'monolithic empire' (says Activision)
- New Nintendo HD console confirmed by 'multiple sources' for late 2012
- Call of Duty: Black Ops PC mod tools coming this May
April 14
- Streets of Rage II hits iPhone at last! But it's not all good news...
- Cannes 2011 line-up announced!
- Tom Cruise in talks to star in sci-fi Oblivion
- New Ocarina of Time 3DS screens and classic high-res art
- Prius Online Anima Redux closed beta key giveaway
- The most bizarre Mortal Kombat trailer yet
- L.A. Noire to feature pubic hair, marijuana, excessive gore and PS3 exclusive content
- Valve releases new PS3 Steam details
- Ubisoft announces PowerUp Heroes, plans to steal your clothes
- Street Fighter x Tekken heading to the PC
- Bethesda against adding multiplayer to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
April 13
- Live-action Deus Ex trailer is like the Portal 2 ads without the jokes (but with extra nightmare fuel)
- Step aside, Professor Layton! Doctor Lautrec's here - and he's brought a trailer
- Three more actors join The Dark Knight Rises
- X-Men: First Class sequel plans revealed
- Game music now officially recognized by the Grammys
- Jerry Lawson, inventor of the first cartridge-based console, passes away at age 70
- Nintendo dates Ocarina of Time 3D, announces Wii Play: Motion, shrugs and says, 'eh'
- Atlus seeks opinions on marriage for future Catherine trailer
- See Chell's acrobatic badassery in the new Portal 2 'Long Fall Boot' trailer
- New Gears of War 3 trailer ratchets up the hype for next week's Beta
April 12
- Peter Jackson is shooting The Hobbit at 48 frames per second
- Alyson Hannigan returns for American Pie 4
- Super SFIV Arcade Edition arriving June 7 for 360, PS3 and PC
- First Mortal Kombat live-action short is as classy and serious as the games aren't. Also great
- Official Nintendo Magazine creates world-first interactive cover
- Blake Lively considering Stone's Savages and Raimi's Oz
- Duncan Jones talks Wolverine
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes gets a logo and a clip
- Call of Duty: Black Ops 'Escalation' map pack releasing first on Xbox Live
- Team Bondi: L.A. Noire's tech will evolve to make games 'hard to differentiate' from film and television
- Sony and Hotz settle in PS3 hacking lawsuit
- Brink releasing one week earlier than anticipated
- LBP2 spawns Super Mario Land tribute
- WoW pacifist reaches level 85 through picking and mining
April 11
- Liam Neeson cut from Hangover 2
- Gran Turismo 5: 24 more circuits to be added?
- Joseph Kosinksi talks Tron 3
- Forget your worries and prepare to grin: First SSX gameplay footage is 100% authentic (and brilliant)
- Bryan Singer spills the beans on Jack The Giant Killer
- Zach Galifianakis wont co-star in comic adap R.I.P.D.
April 10
- Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish have delivered their Ant-Man script
- Roland Emmerich's Anonymous gets a trailer
- Director Sidney Lumet has died aged 86
- Supertrailer: Week 04/03 - 04/09
April 9
- Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool movie gets a director
- Tobey Maguire will star in Ang Lee's Life of Pi
- Josh Pence bags a pivotal Dark Knight Rises role
- New Battlefield 3 screens and art illustrate the tech and creativity behind the game
- 4th & Battery's first game rejected by Apple
- Red Dead Redemption pre-order content coming as DLC next week
- New iOS app offers 100 Atari 2600 and arcade games
- Leaked trailer spills the beans on Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition DLC
- EA Sports exploring persistent player profiles
April 8
- Ryan Gosling & Steve Carell team up in Crazy, Stupid, Love trailer
- New Red Faction Armageddon trailer profiles Kara, a 'hard-nosed smuggler'
- Gearbox: It's been too long, but Duke Nukem Forever is a 'worthy' successor
- Mass Effect 3 previewed in May issue of Game Informer, cover art revealed
- First trailer for Pandora’s Tower
- Portal 2 comic to bridge gaps, explain cake
- Sonic's 20th Anniversary teaser trailer will end wars
- Anonymous backs down from PSN attacks
- Introducing Stomp: The Game Boy edition
April 7
- LA Noire shows off its seamy side with vice trailer
- Orlando Bloom talks The Hobbit involvement
- 3DS set to infest your home with dead things via augmented reality ghost hunting game
- Panel Bashing: Fear Itself Book One
- Kenneth Branagh On Thor
- Priest Prologue
- NIS giving away exclusive downloads to anyone who donates $1 to Japan disaster relief
April 6
- Ex-Bizarre Creations bosses finally admit it: Activision's corporate meddling was a problem
- Tabloid conducts dubious test to prove 3DS makes you sick, we conduct simple analysis to mock it senseless
- Find out if your rig can run The Witcher 2
- Metal Gear: Peace Walker gets its own clothing line
- PopCap Games gets 'edgy' with new label, 4th & Battery
- Resident Evil: Raccoon City geared towards shooters, not survivalists
April 5
- Meet Our New Horror Columnist Penny Dreadful
- Not a joke: Schwarzenegger announces 'The Governator' videogame, cartoon and 3D movie
- Guest announcements for Kapow! Comic Con: UPDATED
- Russell Brand joins musical adap Rock Of Ages
- Look Out For SFX Issue 208 Later This Week
- Keanu Reeves reveals basic plot for Bill & Ted 3
- Will and Jaden Smith team up for M Night Shyamalans sci-fi
- 'Burnout Crash' outed by Australian ratings board
- Battlefield Play4Free open beta launches today
- EA cracking down on concussions in Madden 12
- THQ and Random House partner to develop new IPs
- New Unreal Engine tech 'justifies' next-gen consoles, claims Epic Games VP
- Three new game-inspired heavy metal tracks added to MegaDriver's massive free offering
- Anonymous declares war on Sony in support of GeoHot
- Former Infinity Ward execs go after partial Modern Warfare rights
- Rockstar: Max Payne 3 must appeal to today's 'more sophisticated' gamers
April 4
- Love Star Wars and want to talk about being a fan?
- SSX dev diary tries shamelessly to play down gritty reinvention fears, and miraculously convinces us
- Star Trek 2 writer offers update on the sequel
- Cars 2 viral revs online
April 2
- GR’s weekend giveaway: Musical shirts from ThinkGeek
- Captain Qwark reveals a fake game for April Fool's
- Creator of first Madden game sues EA for billions
- Platinum Games re-launching, tells Japanese game business what's what
- Homefront update fixes freezing issues
- PSP, NGP set to get Music Unlimited streaming service
- David Cage says L.A. Noire mo-cap tech is an 'interesting dead end,' photorealism in five to six years
- 3D pictures of Disney World created for 3DS
- Game composers unite to record Play for Japan: The Album
- The Tree of Life gets pushed back again
April 1
- Prey 2 sounds nothing like Prey, stubbornly maintains its sequel status regardless
- Meet our new columnist Bonnie Burton
- BloodRayne: Betrayal announced for XBLA and PSN with teaser trailer
- GR’s weekday giveaway: Crysis 2 speed shoes kit
- Dragon Quest X development coming along swimmingly
- PETA pushes to ban Michael Vick from Madden NFL cover
- Castlevania DLC delayed on Xbox 360 at the last minute
- PS3 version of Virtua Tennis 4 will get exclusive content
- Rocksteady: Arkham City gameplay is 80% outdoors
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2 coming to PS Plus next week
- Crytek launching attack on Crysis 2 cheaters
- Spider-Man: Edge of Time announced - will have something to do with time, possibly edges