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Box Art F'ups: Readers Revenge (Bad Boys: Miami Takedown)

Feb 18, 2008

We made a half-assed attempt to disguise our last edition of box art buffonery as some kind of factory error. You called our bullshit, submitted your own, and turned an office full of staunch and humorless integre-nerds into braying gigglepusses. Nice work. If any of you still have any creative spark left send it to boxart@gameradar.com or post it in our forums. ...

The games that shaped a generation: PS2 (Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance)

Mar 22, 2007

25. Kingdom Hearts Squaresoft | Squaresoft | 2002 A third-person action game with light RPG elements added - and which happened to merge the Disney and Square universes in an utterly captivating way What made it so great? Kingdom Hearts is what happens when you give classic, universally loved characters to the best RPG storytellers in the business and ask them, "could you maybe fancy this up and make one of those video games with 'em?" It sounded ludicrous at first - Donald Duck as a wizard, ...

Minigame Island (Barnyard)

Jul 20, 2007

From throwaway ideas tacked onto games that aren't much to begin with, to genuine labors of love - gifts from the developers to you - the world of the bonus minigame is wide, varied and rarely more than a couple of minutes long. Here're a bunch of our favorites. Mario vs. Luigi in New Super Mario Bros An insanely intense two-player battle that turns the classic Mario platforming action into a feat of endurance. The aim is to be first to collect up to 10 stars, but if the players decide to ...

Batman’s Best and Worst Games (Batman Begins)

Jul 11, 2008

As you may have heard, this summer’s most anticipated film - The Dark Knight - broods into theatres next week. Additionally, the caped crusader will be swinging into your console this fall with LEGO Batman. With that much attention given to the playboy magnate/crimefighter this year alone, we recognize there’s a whole lot of Batman love being spread about. To quench your thirst for the masked vigilante, we’re bringing you a ...

10 Most Swearing-est Games (Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance)

Apr 3, 2008

Swear words are used in film, TV and games to glorious effect. But sometimes the sheer quantity of obscenity causes the words to lose their meaning. Ever the cultural explorers here at GR, we’ve compiled a list of the ten swearing-est games we could think of. Then we grabbed footage from the first hour of each, and chopped it down to just the dirty words. Very scientific.

Check it out. But remember: this video is categorically ...

The Top 7... Games we wish we didn't love (Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance)

Mar 2, 2007

Last week, we brought you a list of popular, classic games... that we despise. But that's easy; for every work of genius, there's a hater (with good arguments.) This week, we're doing something much, much weirder. We've compiled a list of games that range from "totally sucky" to "mostly sucky" that we... well, we love them. A tough task? We agree. That's why we've roped in editors from three other top game publications - PC Gamer, Official Xbox Magazine and PSM to help us out. Hey, they're ...

Busted Cheats 3: The worst cheat submissions ever (Ben 10: Protector of Earth)

Jun 12, 2008

Everyday we receive hundreds of cheats submissions from people hoping to get their work (and their names) up on CheatPlanet. Some of these people are stupid. These are the absolute worst submissions we've had all week. Like this excerpt from a cheat you'll find on page two:

"…This cheat can only be done by sexy atractive peops like me, so if ur not atractive dnt try it, and then if u do try and it dosent work, ur obviously not as ...

The Top 7… Tasteful game heroines (Beyond Good and Evil)

Nov 9, 2009

Like comic books and movies, videogames tend to present an exaggerated representation of men and women. Dudes are typically muscle-bound meatheads with powerful jaw lines and a thorough understanding of all forms of combat, while women generally have back-breaking chests and dress like strippers regardless of their profession. ...

18 awesome games that died at retail (Beyond Good and Evil)

Oct 21, 2009

There’s a widespread notion in the videogame industry that game reviews can have a profound impact on game sales, and for the most part the evidence bears that out. But as tempting as it is to gloat about the supposed power that we, the videogame press, hold over the livelihoods of publishers and developers, it’s not always true. In fact, history is littered with countless examples of megahit games that had originally been ripped to shreds by reviewers ...

12 videogame stories that jumped the shark (Beyond Good and Evil)

Aug 7, 2009

There is no better way to end GamesRadar’s Shark Week than by preying upon sharkdom’s oldest and greatest catchphrase, “Jumping the Shark.” Popularized by the literal jumping of a shark in a 1977 episode of Happy Days, the colloquialism is now used to describe something veering into absurdity or lesser quality. ...

Gaming's greatest Fatties (Beyond Good and Evil)

Feb 22, 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! ...

A ten-step guide to videogame morphine (Beyond Good and Evil)

Nov 27, 2007

27 Nov, 2007 For a time of peace on earth, theres going to be a lot of stress and killing around this Christmas. Just think about this winters biggest games. Whether its COD4s visceral gunfire tearing apart wall and limb alike, the bloody back-stabbing business of the always-hounded Altair, or Kane and Lynch just being plain old sociopathic, the jovial festival of light and wonder really is looking like a quite brutal one this year. We need a way to combat this, and preferably one which ...

The 10 most pointless videogame subtitles ever (Blitz The League)

Feb 6, 2009

To clarify, this isn’t about dialog captions, which are also referred to as “subtitles.” This is about the wastes of ink which game publishers love printing after game names. Take “Halo 3: ODST,” for example. “ODST.” What is that? It’s some letters that provide no information other than, “Hey, this isn’t the original Halo 3, it’s actually something a bit different.” ...

Disabled but deadly: Gaming’s physically challenged killers (Blood Will Tell)

Aug 11, 2009

In a medium full of perfect teeth, washboard stomachs and breasts that have their own gravitational pull, it’s rare to see characters with disabilities. But they do exist… and they’ve done some badass things. Be it killing gods, eating hardened soldiers or even creating the Nintendo universe; being physically challenged never got in the way of this bunch’s fun.

The End

Disabled and deadly in: Metal Gear Solid 3: ...

Game launch sites that inexplicably still exist (BloodRayne)

Sep 23, 2009

The internet is often thought of as a well of information, but that’s a flawed metaphor. It’s much more like a worldwide network of networks, if you follow my logic. And as the internet ages, it’s becoming littered with servers, and those servers are becoming littered with old data. ...

11 hot women that have played game characters in movies (BloodRayne)

Apr 2, 2009

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Is an actress and model.

Is a rendered 3D model.

High attraction.

Low resolution.

Classy Raccoon City looker.

Cheap Raccoon City hooker.

Assembled by the Gods.

Poorly assembled polygons.

Femme fatale.

Naked ...

The Top 7... Worst scenes in Uwe Boll movies (BloodRayne)

Sep 22, 2008

Movies based on videogames don’t have the best track record. We can think of one or two that are actually good, maybe a few more that are acceptably mediocre, but in general they’re awful piles of shit. And if there’s one man who’s added to that problem more than anyone else, it’s Uwe Boll. ...

An evening with Uwe Boll (BloodRayne)

May 29, 2008

Thanks to his videogame-based cinematic failures, Uwe Boll is one of the most loathed men on the internet right now. In fact his detractors hate his work so much that most of them have never watched any of it.

So in the interests of scientific endeavor, we picked up three Boll DVDs and commited ourselves to watching them all in one night. Does Boll deserve the vitriol he so readily receives from the gaming community? Read on and find out. ...

11 hot women that have played game characters in movies (BloodRayne 2)