The Week of Hate - you're soaking in it. But while most of the resentment has been dispensed by either us, or by you, we thought it important to get an outsiders' perspective on exactly why we suck. In a daring act of gaming reportage, we took to the streets to risk our very lives and feelings to ask non-gamers what they hate about us. ...
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Now that we’ve honed your console hatred to laser intensity, we must turn our attention to the biggest snobs in gaming. You know, those guys and gals who think consoles are children’s toys and pour every last dime into keeping their PCs upgraded with all the latest components (no one at GamesRadar is like that, we swear.) When you try to tell ...
Spending a childhood playing JRPGs has given me a great respect for them, but I'm not a child anymore and the games haven't grown up with me. I can't help but feel let down by almost every new game that fails to evolve and consider some thing new – say, having a hero who doesn't use a sword (gunblades count as swords).Through the years, I've become mature, wiser and incredibly good looking, while JRPGs still have the same happy-go-lucky idiots running headlong into the same obvious fortresses of evil. ...
Fusing bizarre pop culture references with twisted tales of fire starting girls, demented child-killing clowns, and a host of other things that go bump in the night, Stephen King’s living is based on scaring the shit out of casual readers and moviephiles. To celebrate this week’s release of monster-based fog horror, The Mist on DVD, we’ve combed the King library to find his best works on the digital format. ...
Elitism has a way of worming its way into anything we enjoy, poisoning it with snobbery and an unjustified sense of self importance. Even when it comes to the realm of MMOs, gamers can’t resist ranking the swarm of massively multiplayer time sinks from best to worst and hating on any - and every - title the genre has to offer. It’s a mixed up mess with conflicting delusions of grandeur spewing from each MMO camp that has World of ...
Everyone loves indie games. They’re cheap, crazy and addictive, and there’s not a besuited marketing man in sight. For the few independent games that make it big, fame and fortune (of sorts) await. After all, Chris Sawyer created Rollercoaster Tycoon all by himself, and these days he sleeps on a bed made of c-notes and gold. Broadband has made it cheaper and easier than ever before to distribute indie games, but even harder to get ...
There’s nothing more frustrating than installing a much-anticipated game only to find out that there’s absolutely no way it will play on your PC without a hardware upgrade. Nothing, that is, except finding that it does run, but only with framerates in single figures and all graphics settings set to low. Do you soldier on, knowing that you are in no way experiencing the developer’s vision? Or do you regretfully put the disc to ...
With today’s release of Ice Age on Blu-ray, we got to thinking about other CG films in the marketplace. It seemed like once Pixar made anthropomorphic animals with celebrity voices the hot shit, then every grad student with computer skills leaped at the chance to rush B-grade movies into theatres. We’ve taken a gander at the CG flicks currently in HD, and we gotta be honest - there isn’t much to choose from. Even ...
It's an absolute miracle this feature ever got written. After last week's news that Quake III is returning as a free browser game, Quake Live, we got to thinking about what other gratis gaming experiences there are out there. Which led us to discover the myriad temptations of the following browser-based games, each and every one of them capable of destroying lunch breaks, study periods or whole working days. ...