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The Top 7... worst release dates EVER (War Jetz)

10/11/2008

Videogames, like movies and music, live and die by their release dates. A smartly planned launch can make a niche product soar to unpredicted heights or cause a long-respected franchise to slip beneath consumers’ radar. ...

The Top 7... Assassins (Warriors Orochi)

6/02/2008

On some level, roughly 95 percent of games have always been about assassination: go to point A and kill prominent entity B, fighting your way through goons C through Z to get there. Most games tend to come up with a morally justifiable pretext for all the violence, but more and more, we're seeing games that drop the act and let you be what you've secretly known yourself to be all along: a remorseless killing machine bent on destroying your targets. ...

33 iPhone games for REAL gamers (We Love Katamari)

12/05/2009

If you’re fortunate enough to own an iPhone or iPod Touch, you’re also unfortunate enough to have tried browsing the gadgets’ application store. With over 35,000 downloads currently available, finding the quality in all that quantity is growing increasingly difficult, frustrating and costly. ...

Want more 'creative' games? Bring back the NES (We Love Katamari)

5/11/2007

5 Nov, 2007 Ask any seasoned stick-twiddler to name a genuinely original game from the last five years and chances are that the first name that pops into their head is Namco's brilliant Katamari Damacy. Based on the fairly out-there premise of rebuilding the cosmos by rolling around a magical sticky ball, Katamari wooed gamers not just for its innovative core gameplay mechanic, but also its irresistible characters and bonkers style. We fell in love the moment we first saw the intro, which, if ...

The Top 7... games that are cheaper than therapy (We Love Katamari)

16/01/2007

Let the haters and the old ladies complain about how those newfangled video computer games teach us to be killers; we've always taken the view that violent games are a pressure valve for blowing off steam in a harmless way. Don't believe it? Play something fierce and bloody the next time you're in a really bad mood, and then try telling us you didn't feel better afterward. But why stop there? If games can keep you from climbing a clock tower and expressing your inner pain in the form of ...

Why the hell did you license that? (Who Wants to be a Millionaire 2)

11/01/2008

11th Jan, 2008 Games based on licensed IPs are the unpleasant body odour of gaming. No-one really likes them, but they're inexorably tied to the medium and just keep coming back no matter what we do to get rid of them. As crap as most of these games are though, the licenses they're based on usually make sense. Big movies, popular, action-packed TV shows and successful sports stars are all perfect subjects to stick on a box in order to persuade the unsuspecting buyer to pick it up. It's a ...

Why the hell did you license that? (Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Party Edition)

11/01/2008

The Top 7... Games we wish we didn't love (Wild Arms 4)

2/03/2007

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 ...

Without Warning (Without Warning)

15/08/2005

It's been 18 months since Adrian Smith upped sticks from Core Design, took half the development team with him, moved a quarter of a mile up the road and, along with brother Jeremy, set up Circle Studio.Since then the team at Circle has been busy working on its opening gambit - third-person terrorist shooter Without Warning - and, as Smith explained when we visited the Derby-based developer, it knew exactly what was required from its flagship title."It was quite an easy decision for us that the ...

Without Warning (Without Warning)

22/02/2005

After the widely documented fallout from , Eidos whisked the series away from original developers Core Design and handed it over to Crystal Dynamics, who are currently working on Lara Croft's seventh incarnation. Following the debacle, Jeremy Heath-Smith - who co-founded Core in 1988 - left the company and has only recently resurfaced with brother Adrian with a new coding outfit, Circle Studio. Their first offering? - a third-person action-adventure, natch. We caught up with Heath-Smith to ...

The Visual history of WWE SmackDown! (WWE Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain)

17/04/2008

With the recent announcement of ultimate Cro-Magnon bust-em-up, WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2009 for every system under the sun, we rounded up images from all installments to see if history’s been kind to the aging grappler. Head here to chart the rise and fall of the core gameplay, even if it has changed little (why mess with sweaty success?) The graphics, however, have gone from what we’d consider Picasso baby-chum on the ...

The history of WWE SmackDown! (WWE Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain)

5/10/2007

Oct 5, 2007 With SmackDown! vs. RAW 2008 debuting next month, now's as good a time as any to look back on the series' highs and lows from the last decade - without the original PSOne titles (sorry fans). Join us on a rollercoaster ride through the heart of ...

The Visual history of WWE SmackDown! (WWE Smackdown: Shut Your Mouth)

17/04/2008

The Visual history of WWE SmackDown! (WWE Smackdown Vs Raw)

17/04/2008

The Visual history of WWE SmackDown! (WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2006)

17/04/2008

The history of WWE SmackDown! (WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2006)

5/10/2007

The Visual history of WWE SmackDown! (WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2007)

17/04/2008

New Year's solutions (WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2007)

4/01/2007

Did you behave well enough last year for Santa to bring you some new games for Christmas? Stuck on them already? Well, don't worry, we've put together a little something for you to unwrap now - that's right, the best cheats, hints and easter eggs for the top-selling Christmas games. Just hit the tabs on the left for the games you want to know about. Many of these cheats were sent in by our readers through CheatPlanet.com (thank you kindly) - so why not share your own best cheats and tricks ...

WWE intro video to go (WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2007)

24/10/2006

We at GamesRadar value you, our dear readers, and we know how much you folks freak out about the WWE. So, we decided to give you a special treat by capturing all the intro videos for all of the major wrestlers from the upcoming WWE Smackdown! vs RAW 2007 (the dudes that publisher THQ would give us the okay for, anyway) and post them up here for you to download and enjoy on your iPod or PSP (just right click the name and choose "save as"). We'll be updating this list daily until they're all up, ...

The ring is your weapon (WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2007)

18/08/2006

Fighting hand-to-hand was all well and good way back in the 8-bit stone age of video games, but these days, audiences expect a little more. Specifically, they expect to be able to use anything and everything to mete out horrible injury to their enemies. When it hits in November, WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2007 will answer the call by enabling players to take advantage of environmental hotspots spread out across the arena. And whether it's grinding your opponent's face into a chain-link fence or ...