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100 Reasons Fanboys Hate Xbox (Xbox)

Mar 24, 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)

Mar 30, 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)

Mar 30, 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)

Mar 30, 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)

Mar 30, 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)

Mar 30, 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)

May 20, 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)

Mar 30, 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 ...

E3 Close Standing (Xbox 360)

Jul 23, 2008

E3 is hard. The grip of monotonous press conferences, overlapping appointments, games to play, people to talk to, and drinks to drink quickly transformed us from skeptical but eager journos into bags of dehydrated flesh and tangled wires.

After considerably little thought, our response to the whole thing was, "To hell with it, why should we try to think of interesting things to say about avatars, REM, and make-believe saxophones when ...

30 Reasons Leipzig Might Kill Off E3 This Year (Xbox 360)

Jul 22, 2008

E3 2008 was on the whole a rather lame affair. But there is a great big hope on the horizon, and that hope is the Leipzig Games Convention, which happens next month in Germany ...

The Top 7... Lazy Character Clichés (Xbox 360)

Jul 21, 2008

Game design must be super, super hard. What else can explain the number of shortcuts being taken in almost every one? Genres are repeated, environments are recycled and storylines all begin to sound the same. Most copied, however, are the characters. Dreaming up an entirely new personality with entirely new traits is a daunting task, so the majority of folks you meet in games end up feeling identical to the folks you met in previous games. ...

Edge Online: E3 Must Change Or Die (Xbox 360)

Jul 21, 2008

What function does E3 actually serve? Edge Online lists the dubious benefits of E3, and how they might be generated in different, better ways. ...

E3 08: Lost at E3 (Xbox 360)

Jul 18, 2008

E3 is not so different from being trapped on a supernatural island wondering what the hell is going on. Our video response should clarify things for you. Enjoy!Jul 18, ...

E3 08: An 11-step Recipe For A (Mostly) Crap E3 (Xbox 360)

Jul 18, 2008

The key ingredients which dictated the flavour of this year's show ...

E3 08: Top 10 Toilets of E3 (Xbox 360)

Jul 17, 2008

With all the meetings taking place in the hustle-bustle of E3, we feel the manner with which our colleagues have overlooked a very crucial "appointment" is absolutely disgraceful. Year after year, these longstanding convention attendees greet the press with warmth and unbiased affection and it’s about damned time someone sung their praises. You’re welcome.

We’ve peppered the poopy jokes with clichéd gaming ...

E3 08: E3 in numbers! (Xbox 360)

Jul 17, 2008

So there’s this book knocking around E3. It’s produced by the (yawn) Entertainment Software Association. It’s green. It’s full of, and I quote, “Essential facts about the computer and video game industry. It’s quite dull and probably only of use to marketing types who like pleated trousers, wear ear-piece phones (ACKKKK!) and talk in serious tones about “fiscal years.” Either way, we ...

E3 08: 7 tips for picking up chicks at E3 (Xbox 360)

Jul 16, 2008

Nick Savoy, inventor of Love Systems, is something of a real-life Frank Mackey (Tom Cruise in Magnolia, if you don’t get the reference.) This week, all Nick’s energy is focused on E3. He’ll be the guy going home with the hotties the rest of us barely have the courage to ogle from afar. Want to know how he does it? Nick was kind enough to share a few tips with us.

1. Appearance mattersDitch the ratty old game ...

E3 08: E3 Then and Now (Xbox 360)

Jul 16, 2008

If you've been following the games industry for any length of time you're keenly aware of E3. It was once the biggest show we had, a time of year when the entire world focused on the LA Convention Center and put on the loudest, craziest, busiest trade show video games could muster. Some loved it, others couldn't stand the shoulder-to-shoulder, body-odor addled conditions. Doesn't matter now, as the once proud and mighty E3 has shrunk like a ...

E3 08: The Secret GamesRadar Diary (Xbox 360)

Jul 14, 2008

Four intrepid GamesRadar editors are in LA all week for E3 2008, writing and posting about everything they see and hear. Some of it's relevant, some not so much, but it all relates back to the dizzying clustershart that is E3. ...

E3 08: Microsoft Press Conference (Xbox 360)

Jul 14, 2008

The weeklong deluge of gaming press conferences began this morning with Microsoft's third-party-heavy chat hour. First up was a demo of Fallout 3 that didn't expose anything new other than black and white propaganda commercials. It's super gory, looks freakin' amazing and was said to come loaded with future DLC ...