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Win! Copy of X-Blades and a PlayStation 3 (X-Blades)

3/03/2009

If hack-and-slash combat with plenty of magic casting, elemental enemies and practically naked anime-style heroines tickles your gaming bone, then the recently released X-Blades is for you. And to rejoice the release of X-Blades, SouthPeak Games has generously furnished us with a PlayStation 3, PS3 controller and a copy of X-Blades to give away to one winner, while two runners-up will each win a copy of X-Blades for PS3.

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TalkRadar Compendinarium (Xbox)

21/10/2008

Finally! We’ve been cranking out Podcast Gold (with some scattered Silver) for the better part of a year now, much to the delight of an extremely small portion of the internet. That’s right, TalkRadar is growing every day, currently sittin’ pretty with a 5 Star iTunes average, thank you very much. But we’ve yet to organize them in one easy-to-find location. Until now.... ...

100 Reasons Fanboys Hate Xbox (Xbox)

24/03/2008

Microsoft was already a widely reviled company before it set its sights on the videogame hardware market. Though the Xbox brand has been successful at taking the fight to Sony’s PlayStation products, a seemingly bottomless supply of anti-Microsoft sentiment still exists in the gaming community. We’ve rounded up the one hundred most common reasons why fanboys hate Xbox, and condensed them down to a blistering two minutes of pure, ...

The games that shaped a generation: Xbox (Xbox)

30/03/2007

20. Star Wars: Battlefront II Pandemic | LucasArts | 2005 You know all those crazy laser-infantry battles in the Star Wars movies? This game dunks you right into the middle of those skirmishes What made it so great? Intensity and authenticity. Those two qualities make the game in this first-and-third person shooter from a galaxy far, far away. Developer Pandemic expertly realized wargrounds near and dear to Star Wars fans, stuffed them full of heavily armed vehicles (mostly well-known), ...

The games that shaped a generation: Xbox (Xbox)

30/03/2007

10. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Bethesda Softworks | Bethesda Softworks | 2002 A free-roaming fantasy epic that enables players to become an avenging messiah or to just dick around in its gigantic open world What made it so great? Take the go-anywhere, do-anything aesthetic of Grand Theft Auto and stick it into a fully-realized fantasy world, and you've got the best first-person RPG ever made (at least until the next-gen sequel, Oblivion, came along). Will you follow the epic main quest ...

The games that shaped a generation: Xbox (Xbox)

30/03/2007

15. Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30 Gearbox Software | Ubisoft | 2005 A World War II shooter for sofa soldiers that like to think tactics before brainlessly pulling the trigger What made it so great? God only knows how many times we've single-handedly won the Second World War by cutting through wave after wave of the Nazi plague, marching relentlessly on through the bloody wastelands like a possessed, bloodthirsty super soldier, never stopping to think, just focused on kill, kill, ...

The games that shaped a generation: Xbox (Xbox)

30/03/2007

25. Dead or Alive 3 Team Ninja | Tecmo | 2001 Buxom beauties (and, we're pretty sure, some male characters too) meet to fight in cosplay heaven in this sassy one-on-one beat 'em-up What made it so great? Didn't you hear us? Girls fighting one-on-one? Dubious teenage fantasy scenario aside, the game is still a furious and explosive take on the previously staid genre. With electrified fences around some stages, massive windows to smash your opponent through and multi-tiered fighting arenas, ...

The games that shaped a generation: Xbox (Xbox)

30/03/2007

5. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic BioWare | LucasArts | 2003 Hands-down the best damn Star Wars game ever made. What made it so great? Set 1,000 years before the Star Wars films, Knights of the Old Republic gives players a chance to explore a galaxy torn between the Republic and the Empire-like Sith. As an amnesiac Jedi with a terrible secret, you'll travel from planet to planet, righting wrongs (or wronging them even further), gathering followers and busting out the crazy Force ...

Best of E3 06: Xbox (Xbox)

20/05/2006

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon Publisher: Midway Developer: Midway Release Date: October 2006 As the end of the current era of consoles rushes headlong into complete self-annihilation, it seems only fitting that Mortal Kombat be there to polish it off. For a series so completely steeped in blood, sweat and gore, you can't just half-ass its finale, and Mortal Kombat: Armageddon appears to be going down ...

Missing, Presumed Dead (Xbox)

30/03/2006

For every masterpiece megaseller, there are a half-dozen games that never made it out of the gate. Sometimes games in development simply never leave development, even though their existence has been announced to the world with screenshots, previews - sometimes, even reviews. Now that the Xbox 360 is slowly taking over, what will happen to these almost-rans on the original ...

This is fan art (Xbox 360)

2/12/2009

The characters and environments of the gaming world are so colourful and exciting, it’s little wonder they inspire many of us to pick up our crayons and coloured pencils and have a go at recreating them – or even reimagining them – ourselves. The numbers of drawings we've seen of your favourite characters just goes to show how popular it’s become to take the game art world into your own hands. ...

Cheat on your console (Xbox 360)

1/12/2009

We’re on to you. We’ve noticed you casting a roving eye over recent announcements of price cuts, seen you ogle the unveiling of lithe younger models. Yes, even you, 360 fanboy, the one who said the PS3 had no games. We caught you looking longingly at LittleBigPlanet’s Sackboy, imagining the things you would do to him if only you could get him online. ...

Top 7... Blatantly sexist game advertisements (Xbox 360)

30/11/2009

We suspect it’s very difficult to work in game advertising. Videogames are a scary new artistic medium, and as such, not everyone knows how to market them – even to their target demographic. More than with anything else, videogame ad-makers love to target their audience with sex and sexy imagery, but that’s nothing surprising – advertisers have been using gender dynamics to sell products on TV since the folgers coffee days. ...

Best of the Black Friday deals (Xbox 360)

25/11/2009

Given the current state of the economy, and the vigor with which store are going after what’s left of your dollar, we’re going to go ahead and declare this post-Thanksgiving Shopstravaganza of November 27th, 2009… The Blackest Friday. Retailers are well aware of your finiancial plight, and are dropping the prices on games so fresh off the press the cellophane is still melty. ...

The secret shops of Akihabara (Xbox 360)

19/11/2009

Whether you’re looking for electronics, hardware, anime, games, or anything remotely geeky, you’ll find it in Akihabara, a bustling shopping district in Tokyo, Japan. Located just north of Tokyo Station, Akihabara is really three towns in one. It’s a haven for tech hobbyists, a paradise for anime fans and gamers, and a popular tourist destination. ...

Fanboys: 8 reasons why they deserve some respect (Xbox 360)

17/11/2009

To be called a 'fanboy' is one of the worst insults in gaming. It suggests a misguided person characterised by an irrational devotion to a piece of software or soulless mega-corporation. A person incapable of intelligent thought. A person that is a despised twat.

But wait. Let's cut them some slack for a moment and think what purpose fanboys actually serve (beyond being a dumping ground for derision). We fancied a bit of a challenge, ...

50 3D milestones in gaming (Xbox 360)

30/10/2009

All this week our friends at 3D World have been looking at the landmark 3D titles in gaming, starting in the arcades and charting the most cutting-edge advances in 3D technology all the way to the games that we play on home consoles today.

Night Driver (Atari, 1976)

Generally held to be the very first 3D video game, Atari’s Night Driver managed to conjure a 3D experience out of very little computing horsepower by ...

TalkRadar UK #10: Bush modelling (Xbox 360)

21/10/2009

What to expect

- Another red-ringed Xbox 360- Dave revealing that he rubs pizza on walls- And that he's up for a fight...- Giant cock. Roaches- And lovely, lovely Dobles ...

The top videogame controller buttons - Part 1 (Xbox 360)

20/10/2009

Back before you were a gamer, we didn’t have the multi-button, clickable-thumbstick, solar-powered controller gizmos you have today. We used to have to invite friends over and work together to push down the A-button because it was too stiff to move on our own. If we were lucky, we’d get two, maybe three good presses in before it got stuck and Mario just had to hope the rest of the level was flat. ...

The Top 7... Maddest British old-school games (Xbox 360)

19/10/2009

You thought Japanese game design was weird? Ha! ...