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Interview with Tabula Rasa Producer (Tabula Rasa)

9/07/2007

Richard “Lord British” Garriott has been away for too long. An outspoken eccentric with a passion for videogames, he was one of the first people to bring RPGs to the PC with Akalabeth, which grew into the nine-part Ultima epic. He co-founded developer/publisher Origin, arguably one of the most important developers of all time. They dont make them like Garriott any more, which makes his return with Tabula Rasa all the more important. An online sci-fi RPG that attempts not only to ...

Tabula Rasa interview (Tabula Rasa)

4/06/2007

Richard Garriott's Tabula Rasa - to give the game it's full, official name - is a sci-fi MMORPG that combines fast-paced action with such traditional genre fare as character development and guilds (or clans in this case). In terms of setting and plot, it throws players into the future where a cosmic war between an alien race known as Bane and the galaxy's remaining free sentient beings - the Allied Free Sentients - is being fought. Obviously there's considerable buzz surrounding the title as ...

Why games will replace TV (Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal)

6/08/2009

The idiot box has had its time. These games do its job better. ...

Halloween masks! (Team Fortress 2)

30/10/2009

So you didn’t have a Halloween costume this year. Boo hoo. Well, GamesRadar will come to the rescue yet again. All you need is some paper and a printer (and some scissors to cut out the eye holes), and you’ve got yourself a quick last-minute Halloween costume in, well, a minute! You’ll be the star of party. Or you’ll just be laughed at ...

100 reasons fanboys hate shooters (Team Fortress 2)

25/03/2009

Cue the banjo! It wouldn’t be the Week of Hate without our trademark “100 Reasons” videos. In case you missed it, last year we targeted game platforms. So this year we thought we’d change it up and go after a few popular genres. Up first, the ubiquitous shooter. ...

Costumes that saved the world (Team Fortress 2)

30/10/2008

When the Puritans began settling down in North America during the early 17th century, they didn’t practice cosplay. Those were dark days - dark, costume-less days, filled with famine, toil, and a depressingly short supply of free candy. It would take nearly 200 years for Americans and Canadians to finally embrace Halloween as a mainstream event - and it was mostly thanks to a flood of Irish and Scottish immigrants in the late 19th century. ...

Team Fortress 2 Heavy achievements revealed? (Team Fortress 2)

15/08/2008

Word spread quickly when Valve began posting early details about their next big update for Team Fortress 2. Our eyes went straight to the list of new achievements for the Heavy, which you can find here. But Valve’s titillating tease didn’t stop there. It seems they’ve left a trail of clues for fans to follow in the filenames of all the Heavy’s new achievement icons. Right-click on any of these new icons and ...

The Most Gratuitous Headshots Video Ever (Team Fortress 2)

3/07/2008

Two minutes. One video. Fifty-five perforated skulls. ...

The best griefing videos ever (Team Fortress 2)

10/03/2008

Deliberately trying to ruin someone else's game online is something we can't approve of. But if you do it well enough, it's something we can definitely laugh at. ...

Gaming's greatest Fatties (Team Fortress 2)

22/02/2008

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! ...

Team Fortress 2 primer (Team Fortress 2)

9/10/2007

Oct 9, 2007 The Orange Box goes live at 12:00 am Pacific Time on Oct 10, and 8:00 am in the UK. If you're on the beta now, prepare to own some noobs when the great unwashed come flooding in. And if you haven't preordered, you're going to need a headstart. Either way, it's time to brush up on a few of the lesser-known factors in the TF2 ...

Valve's industrial revolution (Team Fortress 2)

18/05/2007

Back in 1996, two Microsoft executives quit their spectacularly high-paid jobs, formed a games company and made the best game ever. Twice. They didnt like the way retailers were throttling the industrys creativity, so they cut them out. They did what a lot of mod teams were doing, they hired them. They published any game they liked through their digital distribution network, however commercially risky, and saved several independent developers in the process. Their revolution was so successful ...

Terminator through time (Terminator Salvation - The Videogame)

19/05/2009

If there’s a character ideal for multiple mediums of sci-fi, it’s the Terminator or at least the idea of Terminators. The concept of a cyborg (cybernetic organism, or rather a robotic endoskeleton with living tissue over it) going back in time to kill the leader of the human resistance once the world goes kablooie isn’t that hard to grasp. ...

Videogame music makes The Terminator better (Terminator Salvation - The Videogame)

17/04/2009

VIDEO: Cameron's classic gets an aural upgrade. ...

The games we hate to love (Terrorist Takedown 2: US Navy Seals)

26/03/2009

Yesterday, we mercilessly tore apart your favorite games, explaining in cruel, cold detail why you have always been wrong for loving them. Today, the tables are turned. Today, we open ourselves up to ridicule.

The following games are really, honestly bad. If not, they’re hopelessly broken or offensively mediocre. At the very least, they’re extremely embarrassing to play for some unfortunate reason or another. ...

The Top 7... Annoying nags that need to STFU (Theme Park)

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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The Professionals - Enchantments (Thief: Deadly Shadows)

22/06/2007

Whether or not you believe in the healing power of crystals, games are riddled with the things. Sometimes they talk to you and tell you what buttons to press to make your character jump or eat an entire string of sausages, and sometimes they teleport you, or save your game. The mystery of enchantments shrouds almost every fantasy game, and we reckon its time to debunk this particular aspect of the paranormal with the help of Dan Kahn, a practitioner of the healing ...

Thief: Deadly Shadows (Thief: Deadly Shadows)

2/06/2004

It shouldn't really be a surprise. Thief has always been one of the scariest games of its kind. Why should the wait for the sequel be any different? It's genuinely nerve-shredding, for reason upon reason, from the superficial (the name), to the fundamental (the third-person option); from the technical (level size) to the communal (post-Invisible War fan cynicism) to the industrial (the steady disappearance of ex-Looking Glass staff from the project). When it is revealed that Project Director ...

Trailer Trash (Tiberium)

1/02/2008

This weeks edition of Trailer Trash is bigger than Ron Pauls internet marketing team – its bursting at the seams with new trailers, tech demos, and gameplay footage. Naturally, weve sarcastically criticized each one for no reason other than its fun. Get comfortable, theres an express shipment of delicious streaming video on route to your eyeballs. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed This must-see tech demo shows off The Force Unleasheds three simulation technologies and how they work ...

Online gaming's dirtiest tricks (Tibia)

6/01/2009

For as long as it's existed, the Internet has been a wretched hive of scum and villainy. The anonymity lets the world's worst people run free pretty much unchallenged and there's always someone trying to scam you – be it stealing your Facebook password or, at its most extreme, tricking you out of thousands of real-world dollars. What follows is a collection of dark tales from the terrifying world of online games.

It may seem ...