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Make life easier in Dark Messiah: Might & Magic (Dark Messiah of Might & Magic)

8/02/2007

Last year's Dark Messiah promised - as have many others - to revolutionize combat in the RPG format. What it did was provide great cast-and-slash action. Decapitations felt deserved, magic was enjoyable and sometimes cleverly used, and the game took the concept of environmental weaponry to its absurd conclusion. The first thing you'd do when you entered a room was look for a chandelier tied precariously to the ceiling or barrels on a curiously high shelf. But if you're thinking about taking a ...

The bloodiest games you've never played (Dark Sector)

29/10/2009

Ah, Halloween. Easily one of the most predictable weeks of the year. See, as a content site, we have to come up with ideas every single day, so when a massive holiday comes around, it’s like a free ticket that tempts any and all websites to jump on the festive bandwagon. In fact, holiday-themed internet articles are now the easiest way to tell what time of the year it is. ...

Dark Sector Interview (Dark Sector)

14/03/2007

Dark Sector looks special. The sinister third-person action game packs a moody atmosphere and the intriguing, power-absorbent, triple-bladed glaive puts a unique twist on the fighting and puzzles. Despite the game having been in development since 2004, Digital Extremes has remained secretive with its progress - until now. We sat down for a chat with product manager, Josh Austin, who told us all about the structure of his innovative new quest, and how he looks to music, film and, bizarrely, ...

The Darkness (The Darkness)

30/07/2007

A first-person shooter packed to the gills with gruesome deaths and washed-out colors, The Darkness is a far cry from the relatively sunny worlds presented in most superhero games. Its hero, Jackie Estacado, is a mafia hitman who manifests demonic powers just in time to fight against all the hired killers his paranoid former boss sends after him. He's a remorseless killer, and relies on guns just as much as he does the snakelike monsters that emerge from his back when he becomes The Darkness. ...

The Darkness: EXCLUSIVE developer walkthrough video (The Darkness)

20/06/2007

We recently managed to haul Lars Johansson, producer of The Darkness, out of the shadows of the Starbreeze studios and into the light to talk us through two levels of his supernatural horror thriller. Joining him for the commentary were art director, Jens Mathies, and the lead gameplay designer, Fredrik Ljungdahl. The walkthrough is presented in two parts, both of which you can find below. And if you find you need more enlightening on this dark and mysterious game you can check out our ...

Pre-E3 blowout day one: Xbox 360 (The Darkness)

2/05/2006

We can't wait Gears of War By now, we've all seen the jaw-dropping trailer, but we can't wait to get our hands on this festival of frags. Just the thought of burying the end of our chainsaw-gun into the face of a formerly subterranean dwelling Locust monster has our fingers twitching with anticipation. Being able to share the bloodletting with online friends in a little co-op play only makes the prospect of eviscerating Locusts more ...

GamesRadar presents: Video Game Idol (Dead or Alive 4)

28/10/2009

Getting up on stage in front of an audience is nerve-wracking at the best of times. But what if that audience included Simon Cowell? Yup, in celebration of the UK X Factor and its unending choke-hold on our social lives, we've put our favourite videogame characters up in front of Simon in the style of American Idol and The X Factor.

Not even Cheryl Cole can help them ...

Dead Rising: Signed, sealed, developed (Dead Rising)

7/09/2006

Thursday 7 September 2006 How many ways can you kill a zombie? We have no idea, but the brilliantly blood drenched Dead Rising offers a multitude of amusing and gloriously gratuitous methods to dispatch, disembowel, dismember and decapitate decomposing deadweights. Chainsaw? Lawnmower? Scyth? Bowling ball? Cactus? It's your shout. With Dead Rising's development deadline now dead and buried - it's out for Xbox 360 tomorrow - we scrawled 10 bite-size questions on a hunk of rancid flesh and sent ...

7 Dead Rising Weapons To Die For (Dead Rising)

30/08/2006

In a game where nearly everything can be used as a weapon - even the remains of your enemies - it's hard to know which objects are the most effective dealers of pain. The smorgasbord of killing apparatus in Dead Rising can fill up your valuable inventory slots all too quickly, but which are the most worthwhile of your limited space? Allow us to help. We've identified the seven nastiest items in your arsenal, along with exactly where you'll find them in Williamette Mall. And if you still aren't ...

Undead armada (Dead Rising)

4/08/2006

This Friday has seen a ridiculous pile of Dead Rising goodies storm the GamesRadar offices as this game approaches critical mass. While you're downloading the new demo from the Xbox Live Marketplace (available today, woohoo!), rifle through the grab bag of risen-dead treats we've assembled. First off, our generous sister publication Official Xbox Magazine has provided us with an exclusive look at zombie dismemberment on a massive scale with their short film entitled "60 Ways to Kill a Zombie" ...

TGS 09: The biggest games and stories of TGS 2009 (Dead Rising 2)

26/09/2009

The business days of Tokyo Game Show have wrapped up. Developers and publishers have made their big announcements and press have had their interviews, so even though the open-to-the-public days are this weekend, the big news has all been announced. Here is a short list of the stories and games that were heating up industry talk during the first two days of the show. ...

Dead Rising 2: All the facts (Dead Rising 2)

10/02/2009

A week ago we didn't know much about Dead Rising 2. Now... we still don't know much about Dead Rising 2. In the spirit of gleaning tiny scraps of info from the ambiguous teaser, though, we've been watching the trailer until our eyes bleed like gaping zombie sores. There's actually a surprising amount of clues held within the viral-style video and everything from the game's setting, plot mechanics and weapons are hinted at in freeze ...

The Top 7... Annoying nags that need to STFU (Dead Space)

30/03/2009

We need to be told what to do in a game from time to time. We rely on helpful characters to issue us with objectives and point us in the right direction. Imagine the wasted hours if they weren't there to help. Trouble is, some of them go about it all wrong and - although they're trying to help - just get right on our tits. Honestly, Navi's a joy compared with these nagging characters that need to STFU.

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2008: A year to dismember (Dead Space)

31/12/2008

Videogames have always been violent. Violence is inherent in the medium, inseparable from the essential experience of playing games. Without competition and conflict resolved by violence, games wouldn’t be games: they’d be screensavers. Gore is a slightly different matter, though. Better graphics and physics have ushered in a new era of explicit gruesomeness. ...

2008 sucked compared to 2007 (Dead Space)

12/12/2008

December is always good for a fight. We award our favorite games, mock our least favorites and shout at anybody whose opinion differs from our own. The one thing we can usually all agree on, however, is that gaming has progressed. Gaming has evolved. Right? Not this year. ...

Win 15 DVDs by watching Dead Space: Downfall on Blu-ray (Dead Space)

3/11/2008

You want DVDs. We want cheat codes. We have a solution.Here in the GamesRadar offices, we firmly believe that playing videogames is the best thing you can do on a couch that won’t make you gag if your grandmother wants to join you. However, watching movies runs a close second (playing “Guess the Stain” was nominated as well, but only by one editor. We don’t go over to his house anymore). ...

TalkRadar 25 – oooh, scary! (Dead Space)

31/10/2008

Hope your ass is in-costume for our moderately special 25th episode of TalkRadar. This time we’re chatting up the least scary moments in otherwise scary games, then Charlie dares to suggest that games are, in fact, never scary. Then we fight about Silent Hill 2.

Also: all the usual BS we yap about every week, lovingly accentuated with profanity, sound effects and allegations that no judge or jury could ever prove. ...

The Scariest Games this fall - Part 2 (Dead Space)

29/10/2008

A few months back we featured the most bloodcurdling games to be unleashed this fall. We then graded each fright fest depending on what we assumed would be the scariest. The big surprise though is that half of the games featured - including FEAR 2 - either won’t be released by year’s end or - like in GhostBusters and Fatal Frame’s case - don’t even have release dates. ...

Why scary games are never scary (Dead Space)

28/10/2008

They can be creepy. They can be disturbing. They can obviously be gross, gory and gruesome. Are videogames, however, really that scary? Do they truly, honestly frighten you? We don't think so, and here are 13 reasons why. ...

The secrets of Dead Space deciphered (Dead Space)

24/10/2008

We literally think Dead Space is awesome. It's an interstellar scare-a-thon of the absolute highest order. And we guarantee that anyone who plays the game will wish they knew what all the alien scribblings plastered inside the Necromorph-infested Ishimura mining vessel mean. Well, we did at least. Which is why we made it our mission to crack the code. We're anal like that.

And crack it we did. The vast majority of it ties-in with ...