Metacritic Features and Reports: Games
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Published: December 4, 2011This week brings a trio of potential awards contenders to theaters, and a new Black Keys album to stores. Plus, HBO gives viewers a sneak peak of David Milch's new series, and the videogame industry celebrates the year's best games.
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Published: November 30, 2011November's best iOS games include an addictive 3D puzzler, an open-world adventure (but not the one you think), and a great-looking shooter powered by the Unreal Engine.
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Published: November 27, 2011The week ahead brings an NC-17 film with a shot at a few Oscar nominations, the sequel to one of the iPhone's most popular combat games, and the unveiling of this year's Grammy nominees. Get all of this week's picks inside.
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Published: November 13, 2011The week ahead brings Alexander Payne's belated follow-up to "Sideways," a highly-anticipated sophomore album by Canadian rapper Drake, and what might be the Wii's final great game. Get all of this week's picks inside.
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Published: November 6, 2011This week, the latest "Call of Duty" game hits stores, and presumably some other things happen as well. (Here are a few for non-gamers: one of the year's best-reviewed movies in "Melancholia," and a new "Blue Velvet" Blu-ray with a ton of never-before-seen footage.) Get all of the week's picks inside.
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Published: November 2, 2011Our roundup of the best iOS games released in October includes the first iOS version of "Scribblenauts," the new action-RPG "Mage Gauntlet," and Modern Warfare clone "Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation."
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Published: October 30, 2011Halloween week brings a few treats, including game-of-the-year candidate "Uncharted 3," a new album by Florence and the Machine, a lost album by The Beach Boys, and AMC's latest original drama series. Get all of this week's picks inside.
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Published: October 23, 2011The week ahead brings new albums from Coldplay and Justice, the return of Beavis and Butt-head, and the firing of the first salvo in this fall's epic showdown between shooters Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. Get all of this week's picks inside.
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Published: October 16, 2011This week brings a game-of-the-year candidate in Batman: Arkham City, a strange new take on The Three Musketeers, this year's Scream Awards, and more. Find out more about all six of this week's picks inside.
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Published: October 9, 2011This week brings an album (Bjork's "Biophilia") and a game ("Forza Motorsport 4") that critics are already raving about, plus the return of one of last year's best-reviewed TV series in "The Walking Dead." Find out what else is in store for the coming week inside.
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