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Dark Sector Interview (Dark Sector)

Mar 14, 2007

Dark Sector looks special. The sinister third-person action game packs a moody atmosphere and the intriguing, power-absorbent, triple-bladed glaive puts a unique twist on the fighting and puzzles. Despite the game having been in development since 2004, Digital Extremes has remained secretive with its progress - until now. We sat down for a chat with product manager, Josh Austin, who told us all about the structure of his innovative new quest, and how he looks to music, film and, bizarrely, ...

Our boring masked heroes (Dark Void)

Jun 6, 2008

See if you can guess what game we’re talking about: in the war-torn near future, a supersolider - outfitted in skin-tight armor - wages battle against legions of aliens/other supersoldiers. To protect his scar-ridden face, he dons a nondescript, yet sleek helmet, thereby rendering him mute and indistinguishable from everything else on sale. Give up? It’s a trick question.

You might remember our feature on the ...

The Darkness (The Darkness)

Jul 30, 2007

A first-person shooter packed to the gills with gruesome deaths and washed-out colors, The Darkness is a far cry from the relatively sunny worlds presented in most superhero games. Its hero, Jackie Estacado, is a mafia hitman who manifests demonic powers just in time to fight against all the hired killers his paranoid former boss sends after him. He's a remorseless killer, and relies on guns just as much as he does the snakelike monsters that emerge from his back when he becomes The Darkness. ...

The Darkness: EXCLUSIVE developer walkthrough video (The Darkness)

Jun 20, 2007

We recently managed to haul Lars Johansson, producer of The Darkness, out of the shadows of the Starbreeze studios and into the light to talk us through two levels of his supernatural horror thriller. Joining him for the commentary were art director, Jens Mathies, and the lead gameplay designer, Fredrik Ljungdahl. The walkthrough is presented in two parts, both of which you can find below. And if you find you need more enlightening on this dark and mysterious game you can check out our ...

Win 15 DVDs by watching Dead Space: Downfall on Blu-ray (Dead Space)

Nov 3, 2008

You want DVDs. We want cheat codes. We have a solution.Here in the GamesRadar offices, we firmly believe that playing videogames is the best thing you can do on a couch that won’t make you gag if your grandmother wants to join you. However, watching movies runs a close second (playing “Guess the Stain” was nominated as well, but only by one editor. We don’t go over to his house anymore). ...

The Scariest Games this fall - Part 2 (Dead Space)

Oct 29, 2008

A few months back we featured the most bloodcurdling games to be unleashed this fall. We then graded each fright fest depending on what we assumed would be the scariest. The big surprise though is that half of the games featured - including FEAR 2 - either won’t be released by year’s end or - like in GhostBusters and Fatal Frame’s case - don’t even have release dates. ...

The secrets of Dead Space deciphered (Dead Space)

Oct 24, 2008

We literally think Dead Space is awesome. It's an interstellar scare-a-thon of the absolute highest order. And we guarantee that anyone who plays the game will wish they knew what all the alien scribblings plastered inside the Necromorph-infested Ishimura mining vessel mean. Well, we did at least. Which is why we made it our mission to crack the code. We're anal like that.

And crack it we did. The vast majority of it ties-in with ...

TalkRadar 23 – Wii Music, watch out (Dead Space)

Oct 17, 2008

Rest up this weekend kiddies, cuz starting next week there’s a nonstop barrage of quality games coming out, right up until New Year’s Eve. This week we talk about the first games in that wave (Dead Space, Saints Row 2, Wii Music), plus the toughest opening levels of all time, then hit the forums for your answers to last week’s poll.

Be sure to listen for a special appearance by the Dark Lord of the Sith as well. ...

How to Make a Monster! (Dead Space)

Oct 1, 2008

Art: there’s not that much to it. To prove it, we talked to Lead Art Director Ian Milham and Lead Creature Designer Ben Wanat about their sci-fi survival-horror game, Dead Space. Ian’s in charge of all the environments in the game; basically, he makes sure that nothing looks out of place while keeping the entire game terrifying and believable. ...

6 things you didn’t know about Dead Space (Dead Space)

Aug 8, 2008

Did you know that no one in space can hear you scream? What about the sound of gurgling as you slowly bleed out after being impaled by a multi-limbed tentacle monster? ...

Top 7... Death Rattle Games (Def Jam: Icon)

Mar 10, 2008

We'd like to think that every developer sets out to make the perfect game. But as budgets swell, stockholders throw tantrums, and release dates draw near, there's a whole myriad of snafus can explode in the face of well meaning folks. Plenty of games spit in the eye of gamers’ expectations and miscarry at retailers every year - that’s not special. These games are the great white whales that tanked so hard they dragged entire companies down with them. ...

The Surprising Origins of Your Favorite Games (Devil May Cry 4)

Nov 20, 2008

Believe it or not, but some of your favorite games began life as completely different titles. Balderdash, you might say. Poppycock, even. While it’s known that game development is more rocky than smooth, there have been a number of instances when devs and producers take their widely-anticipated title back to the drawing board. ...

How modern gaming has made us into wimpy gamers (Devil May Cry 4)

Sep 16, 2008

Think you're hardcore? By current standards you might be. But you're still a noob. Here's why. ...

Devil Am Cry: DMC4 install time video comparison (Devil May Cry 4)

Feb 7, 2008

Devil May Cry 4 needs almost 5GB of hard drive space and a 20-minute install time on PS3. So we figured we should see how far you can get on the 360 version in that time. Video inside! ...

Cartoon Spin-Offs: The good, the bad and the WTF!? (Devil May Cry 4)

Jan 10, 2008

Jan 10, 2007 We're all used to seeing games make the jump from small screen to silver screen. But getting sprinkled with a little Hollywood magic isn't the only way that our favourite game characters can be packaged to appeal to a broader audience. Every so often virtual heroes of gaming dodge the bright lights of a blockbuster movie (or, indeed, a veritable cinematic craptacular) and find themselves transformed into a cartoonified persona. But which of gaming's iconic faces have been treated ...

Devil May Cry 4: PS3 vs Xbox 360 (Devil May Cry 4)

Dec 21, 2007

Dec 21, 2007 A couple weeks ago, we ran a preview of Devil May Cry 4 that mentioned offhandedly that the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game, based on our brief time with them, looked and played identically. Unsurprisingly, this prompted a few readers to crawl slowly out of the woodwork, chanting in arcane rhythms about "framerate" and "processing power" and "memory" and generally calling bullshit on our assertion. Having finally received near-complete versions of the game from Capcom, ...

Devil May Cry 4: a week of exclusives (Devil May Cry 4)

Apr 27, 2007

When you look back at what the PlayStation 2 is, the tone for action-adventure games was entirely set by the original Devil May Cry. The series shaped the very way we think about 3D action, sword fighting, gun slinging and adventure. With Devil May Cry 4 set to hit the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 later this year, the developers at Capcom are banking that they can recapture the lighting in a bottle that made the series such a formidable killer the first time around. Over the course of the ...

Devil May Cry 4 - hands-on (Devil May Cry 4)

Apr 27, 2007

Devil May Cry shaped the very way we look at action-adventure games on the PlayStation 2. It wasn't until God of War came along, four years later, that we even began to consider new ways to play them. So now that we're moving to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, what does Devil May Cry 4 do that will yank the series back into the spotlight? Well, the obvious answer, and the most immediate one when you finally sit down in front of Devil May Cry 4, is "look really pretty." Across the net, ...

Devil May Cry 4's creative minds (Devil May Cry 4)

Apr 26, 2007

Director Hideaki Itsuno is the man who's responsible for every aspect of Devil May Cry 4. According to Itsuno, "The director takes care of the particulars inside the game - storyline, quality, things like that." You know, nothing important. Here, he took the time out to explain his vision for the ...

Coming to grips with Devil May Cry 4's new hero (Devil May Cry 4)

Apr 25, 2007