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- June 28
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- 5 ways the new Superman movie costume blends details from over 80 years of comic book history, all the way back to 1938's Action Comics #1
- Episodes, the Dreadnaught, and Year 11: Bungie won't let Destiny 2 slow down after The Final Shape, even if it has to break the universe
- Silent Hill creator's new action horror game Slitterhead is a rare breed that's exciting to see: mission-based, manga-inspired, and weird as it is bloody
- Hate superhero movies? 35 movies to change your mind
- Poor Things director thinks his new movie can mean whatever you want it to
- As the My Hero Academia manga comes to a close after 10 years, Kohei Horikoshi shows what it means to write a superhero story with a definitive ending
- Shadow Of The Erdtree isn't "too hard" – Elden Ring just made us too comfortable
- This weird indie turns questioning your faith into a weirdly wonderful playable experience
- All Warhammer Age of Sigmar 4th edition rules changes, compared
- A starter guide to Scribing in The Elder Scrolls Online
- June 27
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- Obsidian made Fallout: New Vegas in 18 months, but Avowed has taken the studio five years: "It's been a long development cycle"
- The Acolyte episode 5 reveals the secret ingredient to great Star Wars lightsaber battles: it's all about personality
- FromSoftware's next game should be full-on horror - and one sequence in Shadow of the Erdtree proves it
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure's open-world twist on Animal Crossing: New Horizons was "really risky," but now its devs are preparing to fix its only negative feedback
- Hunt: Showdown's design directors share their formula for live service success: "You have to be part of that experience"
- A Quiet Place: Day One post-credits scene explained – does the prequel have a post-credits scene?
- "I've had my descents into hell" - Heavy Metal artist Caza talks Arkadi and the Lost Titan, the visionary sci-fi masterpiece that took him 20 years to complete
- Netflix's brilliant new superhero show Supacell helps bring Black British culture to a global arena
- June 26
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- Superman down: Mark Waid aims to "take big swings" in DC's Absolute Power event, which will have major consequences "in 2024, 2025," and beyond
- The 35 greatest movies based on TV shows
- Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure had me curious at its reveal, but its clever puzzles and gorgeous art sold me so hard I've been thinking about it for months
- Superman's massive 'House of Brainiac' arc wraps up with big changes for Lex Luthor and Lobo
- Good news, Tarnished: Your Scadutree Fragments carry over in the Elden Ring DLC, so you won't start back at square one as New Game Plus gets harder
- Punching an enemy so hard that its ribs pop out, and other ways that Slave Zero X is "bringing a little bit of the horror back into character action games"
- The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – Everything we know so far
- The divisive Ruby Sunday reveal in Doctor Who was actually perfect - and a brilliant response to one of Star Wars' biggest mistakes
- June 25
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- I finally got to play my most-anticipated open-world game, and Hyper Light Breaker is just the roguelike I was hoping for
- Doctor Who season 2: Release date speculation, cast, and everything we know about Ncuti Gatwa’s next season
- I'm really good at Mario Kart, but this ultraviolent, freerunning alternative kicked my whole ass
- I bought a PS2 demo disk from 2003 that has Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, Silent Hill 3, and Burnout 2 on it, and it's my finest eBay purchase ever
- Sci-fi horror comedy Zombo crosses over with future sport classic Harlem Heroes in the new 2000 AD Sci-Fi Special
- June 24
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- Capcom's weirdest game in years won me over in 10 minutes, and it's suddenly the thing I'm most excited to see from the publisher in 2024
- My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way has a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comic with "anime inspired" art and a villain that goes back to the original '90s toys
- My only real concern about Dragon Age: The Veilguard right now is how it will impact my 10-year-old tabletop campaigns
- Dustborn took me on a roadtrip where I fought with words, played Guitar Hero-like rhythm games, and made Telltale-style choices
- House of the Dragon season 2 has introduced Addam of Hull – who is he and why is he so important?
- House of the Dragon season 2 has finally mentioned a missing character from the books: Daeron Targaryen explained
- June 22
- June 21
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- The 32 greatest Jackie Chan movies
- I can't stop thinking about this Zelda-like dungeon crawler about taking on a wackily animated vampire apocalypse
- "It's not like we wanted to distance ourselves from Persona": How Metaphor ReFantazio turned years of work on JRPG icons into what's now my most-wanted game of 2024
- I review board games and these are the 5 tabletop deals I’m looking out for this Prime Day
- Tom Hardy is right: The Bikeriders isn’t your typical biker movie, and that’s the point
- I've become a proper MMO healer in Destiny 2 thanks to a new gun and Exotic helmet, despite massive Well of Radiance nerfs
- The Boys season 4 plays heavy on cameos, and I'm worried it's becoming what it set out to mock
- These are the 5 Lego sets I'm expecting to get big savings this Prime Day
- June 20
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- Final Fantasy Tactics was originally an RTS RPG inspired by the director's cult classic Super Nintendo game, but his boss said "NOT THIS ONE!"
- New D&D character sheet makes understanding skills easier (and also somehow much harder)
- Dune Awakening is a truly massive survival MMO, and it manages to make sandworms the terror they should be
- Will the PS5’s DualSense Edge controller see a price cut this Prime Day?
- Should you buy a 4K monitor on Prime Day?
- Born out of a pandemic, refined through reflection: Gears of War: E-Day is a chance for The Coalition to recapture the spirit of Gears and "tear a lot of s*** up"
- Here's how the Life is Strange comics could provide context for Max’s parallel worlds in Double Exposure
- 32 greatest movies with famous people (before they were famous)
- June 19
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- Batman #149: It's all change in an emotional issue that sets up a new status quo for the Caped Crusader
- Here’s why 2024's Prime Day gaming laptop deals could be better than ever
- Tales of the Shire is more than Lord of the Rings-branded Stardew Valley, and it fixes one of the genre's biggest problems
- The Plucky Squire is a charming, dimension-bending picturebook platformer that's going toe-to-toe with Mario's attempts to change up the genre
- Perfect Dark looks way better than I was expecting it to, and I'm excited to see how Crystal Dynamics gives Joanna the Lara Croft treatment
- Why Gold Road is the perfect jumping on point for The Elder Scrolls Online
- Is it just me, or is Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome underrated?
- June 18
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- "Make cool s***!" Oni Press president Hunter Gorinson on Biker Mice from Mars, SpectreVision, and comics as a renegade art form
- Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake is an incredible upgrade of the definitive 8-bit JRPG, and after an hour hands-on I'm ready to grind like it's 1988
- Fable 4 better have real estate mechanics so I can buy giant Richard Ayoade's house once I've defeated him
- June 17
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- Indie horror's "the weirder, the better" approach is effortlessly pulling focus from triple A games this summer – but why?
- Making Studio Ghibli buildings in cozy builder Tiny Glade gives me purpose
- Life is Strange Double Exposure - everything we know so far about Max Caulfield's return
- The RodeCaster Duo is an almost perfect streaming mixer, and Rode is working on a fix for its biggest flaw
- House of the Dragon season 2 reintroduces a key family: Cregan Stark explained
- House of the Dragon season 2 has introduced the blacksmith Hugh Hammer – who is he and why is he so important?
- June 16
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- Black Myth: Wukong is easily among the best and best-looking action RPGs I've played in years, and after 2 hours hands-on I see why the devs don't call it a Soulslike
- If that Fable 4 trailer is hinting what I think it is, I can't wait for the RPG's morality choices to have a greater impact than hair and eye color
- June 15
- June 14
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- Daredevil: Woman Without Fear sends Elektra down "a rabbit hole of conspiracy" as she takes on the new Punisher
- 35 must-see Netflix original movies
- Five new CHERRY XTRFY products to boost your game this summer
- Cozy Caravan is Animal Crossing meets Cooking Mama with the sweetest character creation options
- Nicolas Cage’s new apocalyptic horror movie often leaves viewers in the dark, but that’s actually a good thing
- June 13
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- Stalker 2 hands-on: I played Heart of Chornobyl, and it's finally becoming the immersive-FPS I always knew it could be
- Yars Rising is equal parts Metroidvania and love letter to 51 years of Atari history, and a boss fight against a supervillain named Missile Commander sold me
- I played a giant ape and tore down a city in Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero and I haven't had this much dumb fun in a fighting game since the 2000s
- Greedfall 2: The Dying World feels like Assassin's Creed 3 meets a BioWare RPG and I'm already excited to see where it's going
- Roderick and the City of Morhil is a super-cute RPG-inspired fantasy adventure about a frog postman
- After 10 years making StarCraft, one Blizzard veteran is making a blisteringly fast RTS that's far more welcoming than the strategy giants
- From Marvel Rivals to Valve's worst-kept secret, the hero shooter revival is truly underway - but why?
- June 12
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- The 33 greatest TV shows that ran for only one season
- Lego Horizon Adventures is a very new look for Aloy, so here are 5 things we learned, from its Zero Dawn-shaped story to its surprising Lego inspiration
- The most beautiful game at SGF is a graceful platformer made even better by your Last Guardian-style companion
- Between GTA 6 and Xbox's impressive line-up, 2025 is going to be a huge year for games
- Lego Horizon Adventures isn't the crossover I ever expected, but it works incredibly well
- Astro Bot's joyful experimentation turns it into PlayStation's answer to Super Mario Wonder
- Monster Hunter Wilds interview: The future of the franchise, new tricks for all 14 weapons, and the "seamlessness" that really started with Monster Hunter World
- "There'd be no sense in doing this if we were going to pull our punches": Hunter Gorinson reveals why Oni Press is reviving the most controversial comics imprint of all time
- I played Monster Hunter World for 500 hours – now that I've seen Monster Hunter Wilds up close, here are the 13 changes I'm most excited about
- From horror gardening sims to RPG puzzlers, here's 15 Steam Next Fest demos you have to play this June
- Fallout 76 just got bigger to make way for an extra vault, 12 new quests, and more Vault-Tec scheming
- Citizen Sleeper 2 feels a little bit Farscape, a little bit Mass Effect, and like everything I could possibly want
- June 11
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- Phantom Blade Zero is not a Soulslike - it's an irresponsibly fast action RPG that's somehow become one of my Summer Game Fest favorites
- Assassin's Creed Shadows has a formidable warrior in Yasuke, but I'm obsessed with how Naoe's stealthy gameplay proves her the ultimate shinobi fantasy
- How one of the most prolific board game designers made it: "The idea of mass market 'being simple' is bullshit"
- Absolute Power: Ground Zero kicks off DC's summer event with three new stories - and the return of a long-dead character
- An hour of Dragon Age: The Veilguard left me with more questions than answers, but I'm starting to believe I can love a BioWare RPG again
- I saw Dragon Age: The Veilguard up close and spoke to BioWare: Here are the 5 coolest details, including the best character creator the studio's ever put in an RPG
- The 7 biggest trends from Summer Game Fest 2024
- Beyond its A-list roster, Marvel Rivals' attempt to steal Overwatch's crown falls dramatically short
- June 10
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- In Star Wars Outlaws, I escaped an Imperial space station, swiped a relic, and fell in love with Kay and Nix's teamwork
- I watched the same mission play out in Assassin's Creed Shadows in two very different ways and now I can't stop thinking about the possibilities
- How X-Men #700 ends the Krakoa era and sets up the new X-Men status quo
- One of the best roguelikes on Switch and PC keeps pulling me back in with each update, and the final one is no different
- Doom: The Dark Ages is introducing big changes to combat because id Software came to one core realization: "Every projectile mattered in the original Doom"
- Flintlock: Siege of Dawn isn't quite a soulslike, but even with an accessible, hyper-mobile twist, it's taking plenty of notes from FromSoft
- June 9
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- Black Ops 6 zombies is going back to basics with round-based play, dedicated operators, and self-contained maps as Treyarch set out "to create the best version of zombies"
- Call of Duty has been treading water since Modern Warfare – and now Black Ops 6 is here to "define the future" of the franchise
- You'll be able to play as a ghoul in Fallout 76 early next year and channel your inner Walton Goggins from the Fallout TV show
- June 8
- June 7
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- 32 cozy movies for a rainy day
- A wacky Bigfoot comedy starring Jesse Eisenberg and executive produced by Ari Aster might actually be one of this year's most touching movies
- Mutant Year Zero: Zone Wars has a problem with your favorite wargames, but that's why it works so well
- The lack of major releases this year means I'm stoked for a hot indie summer in 2024
- The Acolyte is a cop show in disguise, and it's the perfect genre for Star Wars’ expansion
- Path of Exile 2 PS5 hands-on: A compelling Diablo 4 competitor has just entered the action-RPG arena for console
- I tried to quack the case of the stolen lunch in Duck Detective and got wrapped up in a salami conspiracy
- June 6
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- It's Wildcard Wishlist time! Here are the games we want to see at Summer Game Fest but we're prepared to clown over
- Turns out the early meta for Shadow of the Erdtree is Absolutely Humongous Hammers
- Visions of Mana and Dragon Quest 12 lead the list of five exciting JRPGs we want to see more of at Summer Game Fest 2024
- Final Fantasy 14 Dawntrail brings some style back to my favorite MMO job, and Yoshi-P promises that's only the start
- Silent Hill 2: Everything we know about Konami's survival horror remake
- June 5
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- 35 must-see movie directors
- From Star Wars Outlaws to GTA 6, these are the most anticipated open-world games I have on my bingo card for Summer Game Fest
- Forget swords and sorcery, my time with Shadow of the Erdtree has convinced me that the best route is unarmed combat
- It's not just Elden Ring – here are 5 soulslike we're prepared to die over at Summer Game Fest
- Divinity Original Sin: The Board Game plunged Larian into development hell … and it’s all the better for it: “We’ve made the kind of game that we would love”
- Where is Yoda in The Acolyte? Why the Star Wars Jedi isn't involved, explained
- Bruce Wayne finally gets his mojo back in Batman #148 - but will it come at a deadly cost to one of his friends?
- The Acolyte's masked villain has been revealed – here's we know about the new Star Wars Sith
- June 4
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- Wild Bastards is a roguelike FPS that makes some shocking changes over its predecessor, but its posse of planet plundering robots eventually won me over
- This new horror movie told mostly from the killer's POV may not be destined to be a classic, but its innovation is very much needed
- The 10 best manga to read right now
- Following a year of memorable RPGs like Baldur's Gate 3, these upcoming RPGs just might make Summer Game Fest for me
- What's Hot 2024: 50 of the best games we saw and played at the summer showcases
- The Elden Ring DLC Shadow of the Erdtree is the best thing it could possibly be: more Elden Ring, but way harder
- I tried Samsung’s new OLED gaming monitors early, and one feature should have rivals worried
- Metaphor: ReFantazio - Everything we know about the upcoming JRPG from ex-Persona developers
- Monster Hunter Wilds: Everything we know so far about Capcom's new game
- June 3
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- That Silent Hill 2 gameplay wasn't perfect, but it has me convinced that horror could still dominate Summer Game Fest if we see any of these 5 titles
- 33 Immortals is the unholy union of Hades, World of Warcraft, and Diablo 4, and even though it's not perfect, it's got my full attention
- Tales of the Shire - everything we know so far about the upcoming Lord of the Rings life sim
- June 2
