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Animal Crossing Dream Town (Animal Crossing)

May 2, 2007

While MySims looks adorable, there are many of us here who refuse to get excited about a cutesy town simulator thats not Animal Crossing. We know its coming and we cant wait until we get to send each other more messages and outfit our homes with songs that can only be acquired on Saturday nights. Without further adieu: 1) Outdoor pursuits How about a fitness trail through the woods, or a soccer lawn? So theres actually something to do when your pal suggests going for a walk. 2) Games room Wed ...

Batman’s Best and Worst Games (Batman Begins)

Jul 11, 2008

As you may have heard, this summer’s most anticipated film - The Dark Knight - broods into theatres next week. Additionally, the caped crusader will be swinging into your console this fall with LEGO Batman. With that much attention given to the playboy magnate/crimefighter this year alone, we recognize there’s a whole lot of Batman love being spread about. To quench your thirst for the masked vigilante, we’re bringing you a ...

Gaming's greatest Fatties (Beyond Good and Evil)

Feb 22, 2008

Just in time for Black History Month, GamesRadar is proud to present a completely unrelated article about fat people. Chubbies are everywhere these days. Your next door neighbor could be a fatty. More than likely, your mom is one, too. Oh, Snap! ...

An evening with Uwe Boll (BloodRayne)

May 29, 2008

Thanks to his videogame-based cinematic failures, Uwe Boll is one of the most loathed men on the internet right now. In fact his detractors hate his work so much that most of them have never watched any of it.

So in the interests of scientific endeavor, we picked up three Boll DVDs and commited ourselves to watching them all in one night. Does Boll deserve the vitriol he so readily receives from the gaming community? Read on and find out. ...

The most mediocre box art (BMX XXX)

Jul 24, 2008

Oh, the ever-present box art story. We've been to this well a few times before, but in the spirit of 7/10 week, a celebration of everything ho-hum about the games industry, we had to call out some of the most yawn-inducing packages we've noticed. ...

Street Fighter Week: Combo Comparison (Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO)

Mar 20, 2008

About 15 years ago you couldn't set foot into an arcade without elbowing your way through a busting throng of Street Fighter II experts. Hell you might have been one yourself. Maybe you missed the arcade takeover and caught the games on SNES or PlayStation years later. Either way, you spent hours honing your combos to laser-like precision. But since those glory days, chances are your animation-interrupting attacks have softened somewhat, and ...

Street Fighter Week: The Sounds of Street Fighter (Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO)

Mar 19, 2008

"Hadouken!""Shoryuken!""Sonic Boom!"Anyone who's played a game, walked past an arcade or read a comic book in the past 10 years should recognize those words immediately. They're some of Street Fighter's most well-known attacks and for years were at the heart of the game's cultural takeover. Kids mimed the attacks, gamers shouted them out loud and tournament players dreamed about perfecting combos with these moves as the killer final blow. But ...

Top 7... weirdest Street Fighter insults (Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO)

Mar 17, 2008

When it hit arcades back in 1991, Street Fighter II: The World Warrior instantly perfected two things: balanced martial-arts fighting that let players choose from a variety of wildly different styles, and trash talking. Arcade gamers at the time didn't even need to insult their would-be challengers after brutalizing them onscreen; their characters did it for them, delivering the dis with a finesse that soon became legendary. For Street Fighter ...

What the hell were we thinking?!?! (Donkey Konga)

Aug 1, 2006

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 ...

DVDstruction: Bullet Porn (Enter the Matrix)

Feb 6, 2008

Damn, was this a tough category to comb through. Both High-Def formats have an insatiable thirst for loud noises, taking to things that go BOOM like a politician to babies. There are a lot of deceptive titles out there, like Shooter and Shoot 'Em Up, purporting to be the ultimate purveyor of balls-out ballistics. Don't you believe it. To paraphrase Shakespeare, those titles "be bullshitin' on Front Street." ...

The Top 7... games we want announced at E3 (F-Zero GX)

Jul 13, 2008

It's everyone's favorite time of the year again, when thousands of overcaffeinated journalists descend upon E3 with their live-blogged, 2000-word diatribes on the most minor of details. The objects of their unending speculation? The biggest games of the show, which, oddly enough, have been known to the gaming press for months and will surprise literally no one.

That's why we're interested in games that haven't been seen, announced or ...

The 21 Hardest Nintendo games ever (F-Zero GX)

Mar 10, 2008

From the stinging paper cuts delivered by their early Hanafuda cards, to their dual screen screammaker Contra 4, Nintendo have been responsible for a downpour of tricky titles to douse even the most resilient gamer's spirit. Join us as we descend Jacob's ladder through the circles of hell, into the belly of the Game Over beast. ...

World of Nintendo (Gamecube)

Aug 29, 2008

Free customised games machines for rich people, hacked-up old games machines for technical folk and colourful stitching from the knitting needles of online crafters. That’s all in a month’s work for the Nintendo community. ...

Political terms re-defined by videogames (Gamecube)

Aug 29, 2008

Oh my divided stars and garters, there’s an election going on! And a damn important one at that. Kinda makes you want to know the issues, what’s at stake, which candidate addresses your interests, stuff like that. But golly, all that political jargon bores the shit out of us. ...

Ultimate Developer Battle (Gamecube)

Aug 28, 2008

It's the turn of real-life developers to duke it out, dust it up and do each other over like blood-hungry gladiatorial champions. We've taken 16 of the industry's best-known, best-respected and most beautiful developers and smashed them head-to-head in an entirely make-believe orgy of violence. Let the fighting begin! ...

How to draw videogame fanart (Gamecube)

Aug 26, 2008

I was graced with hands which lust to create. I did not choose to live within the both splendorous and torturous tower of artistic wizardry; the tower chose me. I am an instrument of aesthetics, a humble child of Aphrodite.

The world may never fully understand the deep pit of hot coals which glows and sparks with creativity within me, but I must attempt to impart some of my insight to the world. Raise your pencils and feel the passion build within you. Someday you too may be able to draw Mario as well as I. ...

Leipzig's best trailers (Gamecube)

Aug 22, 2008

In case you weren’t able to jet over to Leipzig and booze with surly eurotrash at the spiritual successor to E3, we’ve collected the show’s hottest videos in one easy place. Because of the show’s positioning in the product release calendar, it’s more about building hype for imminent fall releases and less about shock announcements. ...

Confessions of a professional gamer (Gamecube)

Aug 22, 2008

As a professional gamer, you get to travel, compete against the best gamers in the world, and make a living doing it. But is getting paid to play as sweet as it sounds? Meet the Championship Gaming Series' San Francisco team, OPTX. They just walked away from their last tournament with a fat purse of $150,000 after kicking ass in Counter-Strike: Source, Forza Motorsport 2, Dead or Alive 4, and FIFA 08. ...

A picture history of videogame spaceships (Gamecube)

Aug 20, 2008

In terms of awesome, spaceships are right up there with pirates and ninjas and robots. To celebrate gaming's ongoing romance with booster-powered, warp-fast , proton-firing, wormhole-dodging vehicular imaginings, we thought we'd take a look back at almost 50 years of spaceships in games using the attractive medium of in-game and box-art imagery ...

The Top 7... Girl gamer stereotypes (Gamecube)

Aug 18, 2008

For Norris’ sake, we all know that girls play games. They play “hardcore” games, "casual" games, strategy games, adventure games, fighting games, mind games, games games games all the time every day. Can we stop with the “girl gamer” nonsense? ...