Well, of course you wanted to go to Tokyo Game Show - who wouldn't? But you didn't. Maybe sushi makes you retch, maybe an expensive plane ride and week-long jetlag didn't sound cool, maybe you were afraid you wouldn't be allowed back into the US all because of that mishap with the senator's daughter and that video. Whatever. The point is, GamesRadar is here for you. Or, rather, we're over there for you. So park yourself right where you are and live secure in the knowledge that we'll tell you ...
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22 Sep 2006

The Legend of Okami

GC Feature | Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

They say flattery will get you everywhere, and that imitation is the sincerest form of such behavior. But is there a limit to how much you can ape something before it crosses the line of "homage" into "ripoff?" Well, when the result is a game as life-changing as Okami, we're content to let it take everything that makes The Legend of Zelda a masterpiece and copy it any day of the week. Spending no more than a few hours with Okami will reveal how much it plays like a new Zelda game. You've got a ...
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17 Aug 2006

Madden NFL 07 - Producer Interview

GC Feature | Madden NFL 07

So, you're one of the millions and millions of potential Madden 07 players who have yet to fork over the cash for a shiny, new Xbox 360, and you'd like to hear a little about how Madden is going to play on your system this year? We've got you covered. We were given time in a windowless room to brain-beat Associate Producer Josh Looman, and he started singing like a canary before we even rolled up our sleeves. We're actually really lucky he was so coopoerative - it turns out, guys who hang with ...
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7 Aug 2006

Gaming supermen

GC Feature | Tony Hawk's Underground 2

What the hell did people do all day before the internet? In just the past year, user-generated sites like YouTube have become everyday destinations for virtually anything that's ever been recorded, broadcasted or even conceived of - and that includes gaming. A recent thread over on the Penny Arcade forums called out the best you'll-never-pull-this-off video game moments captured on video, and wouldn't you know it, YouTube pretty much as them all. Prepare to feel worthless. We perused the list ...
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7 Aug 2006

E3: The good stuff

GC Feature | Gamecube

For over a decade the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (aka E3) has been the highlight of the gaming calendar. But - with many of the big players deserting the show - the doors have closed on this incredible circus of sensory stimulation. E3 as we know it might be "evolving" but it's not going to be the same mind-blowing spectacle. To celebrate the relatively short - but always raucously enjoyable - lifespan of the show, we look back and remember why, for one week every year, gaming was ...
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1 Aug 2006

What the hell were we thinking?!?!

GC Feature | Donkey Konga

Chaos, mayhem, uproar and riots. That's what GamesRadar seems to have triggered with last week's feature, "The Ten Greatest Years in Videogame History ". We might as well have burned down the internet, for all the email and forum flaming we inspired. Some folks praised us, some wanted us crucified, and one called us "wankers", ignoring that the feature only covered the US market. Granted, we set ourselves up. We knew this feature was so vast, so subjective and so dependent upon reader ...
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27 Jul 2006

The ten greatest years in videogame history

GC Feature | Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

Three weeks ago, our sibling site NextGen posted the article, "The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming." It was full of cool industry info, but the first thing we asked was, "So, the PlayStation was first designed as an add-on for the SNES. We get the irony, but what were we actually playing in 1993 that made it so great?" We checked it out. We made a huge list of the best games of the past 34 years, taped it to the wall, and fought for days about stuff like whether one Zelda is worth more than two ...
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20 May 2006

Best of E3 06: GameCube

GC Feature | Gamecube

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: Q4 2006 Even though this will be one of the year's biggest games, and probably one of the console's top adventures ever, it was completely absent from E3 2006. Well, in its GameCube form, anyway - ever since Nintendo announced two different versions of Twilight Princess, one for the Cube and another for Wii, the company's current-gen console practically disintegrated from public ...
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5 May 2006

Pre-E3 blowout

GC Feature | Gamecube

Next week, we'll be coming to you direct from Los Angeles, where the 2006 E3 trade show will be held. There, every single publisher will be blasting the latest and greatest in games. From Nintendo's brand new Wii to the PlayStation 3, the hottest systems will be drawing crowds. Xbox 360, PC, PS2 and the rest will be fighting back with amazing new games. Either way, it's you who's going to win. And we bring it all to you. But before that, we're going to show you the games we know about now. The ...
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5 May 2006

Pre-E3 blowout day five: Nintendo

GC Feature | The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

We can't wait Metroid Prime 3 There's so little known about any and every Wii title that we could easily just slap the entire console down as our most sought-after E3 experience. But if its games were laid bare for all to see, Metroid Prime 3 is where you'd find us. So far, all anyone's seen of Samus' latest bounty hunt is a brief trailer, where she... exits her ship on a desolate planet. Whee. But we don't really care which creature she's tracking down or what poison-spewing aliens are on ...
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