We’ve played the game and, already, we’ve felt the fear.

Yes, BioShock 2 has new guns, new powers, new tools and new multiplayer.  For the first time, you can shoot rivets or drill through enemy flesh as a Big Daddy, control turret guns from across the room with remote hacking darts, combine plasmids for electrified tornado death traps and go head-to-head with friends in a raging online Splicer War. ...

Christmas '09 is cancelled, but early next year looks amazing. ...

You know the only real problem with downloadable content? It’s typically designed by the same people who made the original game. That’s boring. Why not give other folks, who don’t necessarily worry about whether something is “a good idea” or “sensible” or “legal,” a shot? Sure our ideas might be a little unusual at times, and a couple of them could conceivably land someone in jail. ...

E3’s gone dark for another year, and as we bid farewell to the rip-roarin’-est show in years we find ourselves buzzing with anticipation. The FPS field is crowded, as usual, with several massive sequels (and a handful of promising but unproven new titles).  Since you need to know which of these are worth your time and money, we’ve selected a few top-shelf shooters for comparison. Let the merciless scrutiny begin! ...

Maybe you’re overwhelmed by our constant barrage of tweets and extensive E3 coverage. Maybe you’re drowning in the sea of E3 info that’s flooding the web. Or maybe you’ve got a life and don’t have time to waste reading previews and staring at screenshots for games you’ll never care about. That’s why we’ve filtered out all the bull to bring you the exciting news that matters the most ...

We have some real doozies for you this week. Plus, as an added bonus, we’ve included a movie trailer so bizarre and irresponsible that we just had to incorporate it with the rest of the trash. Enjoy! ...

One Rapture-loving Radar editor hates the sequel already. Here's why. ...

Post date: April 24, 2009
T-Dar 48 length: 2:04:09
Quote of the week: “When do we get the .fart URL?” ...

Even the biggest BioShock fan has to be a bit skeptical. The extraordinary originality of 2007 s underwater shooter seems impossible possibly foolhardy to repeat. Yet here we are, just two years later, getting our first look at the sequel& from someone other than series mastermind Ken Levine. Should we be worried? Can this really work?New creative director Jordan Thomas thinks so, and over the course of an hour-long demo and interview, ...