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Mediocre Game Babes (PlayStation 2)

Jul 25, 2008

It’s important to recognize the festivities surrounding our 7 out of 10 week are bold and warm natured salutes to mediocrity in all its forms. The contributions of gaming alone have made fantastic strides to rarely raise the bar and present us with passable drudgery time after time. ...

The most mediocre box art (Suikoden Tactics)

Jul 24, 2008

Oh, the ever-present box art story. We've been to this well a few times before, but in the spirit of 7/10 week, a celebration of everything ho-hum about the games industry, we had to call out some of the most yawn-inducing packages we've noticed. ...

E3 Close Standing (PlayStation 2)

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 ...

CRAP games that scraped a seven out of ten (PlayStation 2)

Jul 23, 2008

Let’s be honest. You don’t need a certified games “journalist” to explain why Grand Theft Auto IV is awesome or that the Dirty Dancing videogame is shit. You’re intelligent. You know what kinds of games you love and which ones you despise. ...

The 100 lamest game-industry clichés (PlayStation 2)

Jul 22, 2008

1. All in all - A code phrase signifying the start of the final paragraph of a review, wherein the writer will sum up the meat of his opinion in a few brief sentences. If you see this at the end of a review, it's a clear sign that the last paragraph is the only one you actually needed to read.

2. Immersive - So fascinating and realistic, it almost makes you forget that you're actually sitting on a couch, twitching your thumbs ...

30 Reasons Leipzig Might Kill Off E3 This Year (PlayStation 2)

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 (PlayStation 2)

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. ...

What is Seven out of 10 Week? (PlayStation 2)

Jul 21, 2008

Now that the dust has settled from the most aggressively mediocre E3 yet, we've entered that yearly lull in which the game industry kicks off its shoes and takes a pre-autumn nap. With crumminess behind and boredom ahead, we can't think of a better time to dedicate this week to a celebratory prodding of all that is banal, boring and mediocre in the game industry. In the coming days, we'll drag the laziest aspects of our industry - kicking ...

E3 08: Lost at E3 (PlayStation 2)

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: The Most Excruciating Moments (PlayStation 2)

Jul 17, 2008

E3 may be getting smaller and smaller, holding fewer and fewer surprises, but you can still count on the show for one thing - horrible, horrible press conferences. When a bunch of corporate suits and publicity flaks try to relate to gamers, while still hitting all their boardroom selling points, the results are never pretty.

2008 is certainly no different. After only two days, we've already suffered through an agonizing gauntlet of ...

E3 08: Top 10 Toilets of E3 (PlayStation 2)

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! (PlayStation 2)

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: E3 Then and Now (PlayStation 2)

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: Why wait? E3's biggest games reviewed NOW (PlayStation 2)

Jul 15, 2008

You know the problem with E3? You have to wait months before you find out if a game that looked great in July is going to kick ass or blow goats when it finally arrives in November. And it it sucks, you feel deflated. If only you could read, right here and right now, which games are really worth eagerly anticipating and which you should just start fitting for cement shoes right now. Wouldn't that make the world a better place?

Here, for the very first time, are the exclusive first reviews for all of the games you're most excited about this very E3. ...

E3 08: Sony Press Conference (PlayStation 2)

Jul 15, 2008

For more E3 coverage, check out our rundowns of the Microsoft and Nintendo press conferences.The scene at the Shrine Auditorium is lively and crammed with members of the gaming press and various industry hangers-on. Hopefully some of the noisy bastards can bring themselves to shut up during the more exciting announcements this year.

The stage, bathed in blue light, is host to seven mammoth stations with a PS3 ...

E3 08: The Secret GamesRadar Diary (PlayStation 2)

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. ...

The Sexy, Sexy Ladies of E3 08 (PlayStation 2)

Jul 14, 2008

Call us crude, but 95% of us here on the GR staff are vital, virile people who really appreciate a beautiful woman when we see one. And if she's paid to smile at us and tolerate us snapping away with our cameras like pirahna devouring a floundering calf, all the better. Luckily, the folks who put together E3 know this as well as anyone, and have already begun surrounding us with photo-worthy subjects. We'll throw a few inline below, and you can ...

E3 08: Hub (PlayStation 2)

Jul 14, 2008

E3 is the only place in the world that matters this week. Literally hundreds of games are going to be shown in glitzy press conferences and one sweaty Los Angeles Convention Center

Therefore, we've hammered together this one-stop shop to bring you all the sights, sounds and sensory overloads from the week-long center of the videogaming universe.

You'll find features here on this page, and more ...

E3 08: Is Mercenaries 2 better than GTA IV? (Mercenaries 2: World in Flames)

Jul 14, 2008

In the weeks that followed the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, most of its high-profile competitors - including Prototype and Saints Row 2 - had their release dates hastily and conspicuously pushed back to fall or later. Most of them, that is, except for Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. After a number of pre-GTA IV delays, the free-roaming soldier-of-fortune simulator is sticking to its August release date, with no sissy retreat in ...

The Top 7... games we want announced at E3 (Final Fantasy XII)

Jul 13, 2008

It's everyone's favorite time of the year again, when thousands of overcaffeinated journalists descend upon E3 with their live-blogged, 2000-word diatribes on the most minor of details. The objects of their unending speculation? The biggest games of the show, which, oddly enough, have been known to the gaming press for months and will surprise literally no one.

That's why we're interested in games that haven't been seen, announced or ...