We love games. We love films. And most of all, we love a good pun. That’s why we’ve taken some of our favourite movies and games and stuffed them into a giant blender for mighty mash-up results. Ever wondered what would happen if Kratos collided with the Corleone crime family? Or if Sackboy met Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes? Well wonder no more, because we've answered your day-dreaming prayers with the following mash-up movie ... » Read More

2 Nov 2009

The rise and fall of the mine cart level

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

The art, science, and tragic history of the greatest gaming innovation known to man. ... » Read More

3 Jul 2009

If video game characters were Pokemon

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Ever wondered what it would be like to have video game characters in your Pokemon party? Why choose boring old Bulbasaur when you can choose a beautiful Kasumi? Or a level 50 Sackboy? We've given 21 game characters the Pokemon treatment, with four moves to choose from and some evolutionary states too. Who would you choose? ... » Read More

26 Feb 2009

Videogames versus the real world – second...

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Breaking news! Toad isn’t actually a toad... street fighting doesn’t involve fireballs… guns rarely come with chainsaws attached… and a theoretical physicist has never spent his scientific career smashing zombie head crabs with a blood-soaked crowbar. As we demonstrated last week, however, the real world would be a hell of a lot more interesting if any of the above was true. ... » Read More

4 Feb 2009

How Metacritic rules the games industry

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

You’re probably kicking yourself for not thinking of it first. Instead of relying on one critic’s point of view, mash them all together into one easily-understood uberscore. Rubbish games will be punished, quality will win out, and the occasional dodgy verdict will be smoothed over by the masses. That’s the theory. ... » Read More

30 Jan 2009

Which create-a-character is best for making Obama?

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Barack Obama. The most important politician in a generation. A peerless orator. Winner of a historic election. And exceedingly effin hard to recreate in every create a character mode we could find. You’d think the current leader of the free world’s unassuming features would be easy to make with the plethora of chin, forehead and septum sliders most games now have. Wrong.Not only did we fail to craft convincing Obamas, we ... » Read More

19 Jan 2009

14 golden rules for making LittleBigPlanet levels

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

You can do anything in LBP which is a pretty daunting prospect. Trying to compete or stand out in the canvas crowd might seem impossible but there are a few simple rules you can follow to increase the chances of your work getting noticed, played and hearted. This isn't a creation guide - the in-game tutorials do a good job of explaining how everything works. Instead, these are a few vital guidelines to make sure you build smarter and better ... » Read More

8 Jan 2009

The very best and worst of games merchandise

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

We collect a lot of gaming merchandise at GamesRadar. While we buy some of it ourselves, one of the perks of working in the industry is that a week rarely goes by without some new item of promotional gaming paraphernalia finding its way to our desks. And generally it's a pretty even mix of awesome and crap ... » Read More

8 Jan 2009

GamesRadar's predictions for gaming in 2009

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Guaranteed 100% accurate unless wrong. ... » Read More

26 Dec 2008

How to get 40 Trophies in 60 minutes

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

For many of us, try as we might to feign indifference, there’s a nagging desire that we secure at least a respectable number of Trophies. So for smarter, time-deprived gamers, we’ve devised this quick-fix guide to scoring a respectable 40 Trophies in around an hour. Onwards, with dignity! ... » Read More

19 Dec 2008

GamesRadar's Officially Annual Platinum Chalice...

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Has it really only been 12 months since the last avalanche of “Best Games of 200X” awards? Well, we all love a good list, and you won’t find a better barf bag of random praises than our own Platinum Chalice awards, the place to have someone else’s gaming opinions shoved upon you. How important are these awards? So important. Real important. What do the other guys have, gold trophies? Screw that. ... » Read More

8 Dec 2008

The Top 7... prettiest games of 2008

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Ever since the Xbox 360 arrived three years ago, the so-called next-gen era of gaming has been depressingly devoid of beautiful games. We’re not talking graphics, mind, we’re talking colors. ... » Read More

1 Dec 2008

The Top 7... Games you won’t get to until...

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Another holiday shopping season is here, bringing with it the grim realization that, once again, the game industry has failed to learn its damn lesson. Just like every other year, seemingly every game publisher on the planet has decided to shove its biggest releases onto store shelves for the holidays, confident that they won’t be buried under the avalanche of every other publisher doing the exact same thing. ... » Read More

6 Nov 2008

LittleBigPlanet Trophy whore guide

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet is not a game that’s particularly hard on its players. It’s especially forgiving when it comes to setting conditions for earning PSN Trophies; you’ll earn one for putting clothes on your Sackboy, after the game tells you to do so. ... » Read More

4 Nov 2008

10 LittleBigPlanet levels you have to play

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

After a few initial, post-launch hiccups last week, LittleBigPlanet has taken off rapidly. Hundreds, if not thousands, of PSN users have been uploading a continuous stream of homemade levels to the game’s straining servers, with varying levels of quality and dedication. ... » Read More

24 Oct 2008

TalkRadar 24 - too many games!

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

We all know that 24 is the highest number, so therefore this must be biggest, best, super bestest podcast of all time. We’ll let you decide whether or not math is capable of lying so’s we can focus on talking about Far Cry 2, Midnight Club: LA, Tetris Party, Castlevania and the billion other games out this week.Plus a very special appearance by our “E” rated reviewer and compromising tales of us effing up ... » Read More

23 Oct 2008

8-bit levels in LittleBigPlanet

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

From the moment we first learned that LittleBigPlanet would enable players to create their own semi-2D levels, something weird and obsessive went to work in the back of our heads. How feasible might it be, the thing thought, to take old-school games and remake them using the level-creation tools? It couldn’t be that hard, right? After all, those old games were so simple. ... » Read More

22 Oct 2008

LittleBigPlanet's Offensive Lyrics

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Everyone expecting the adorable world-building LittleBigPlanet to hit shelves this week was rightly disappointed when Sony announced a worldwide recall just a few days ago. Apparently, the PS3’s biggest exclusive this fall contains a background music track with phrases taken directly from the Qur’an. ... » Read More

30 Sep 2008

LittleBigPlanet's level design: How easy is it?

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Since it was unveiled to a cheering crowd at the 2006 Game Developers Conference, LittleBigPlanet has left one lingering question in the back of our minds. Sure, it’s cute, and yeah, it looks easy to use. But is it really? Will new players be instantly able to create anything that pops into their heads, or will it take hours of learning and frustration before they can so much as recreate the first level of Super Mario Brothers? ... » Read More

23 Jul 2008

E3 08: The videos you may have missed

PS3 Feature | LittleBigPlanet

Just in case you missed out on the biggest trailers of E3 from the Sony and Microsoft conferences, you can see them here, in all their shaky-cam glory. We've got Resident Evil 5, Fallout 3, Gears of War 2 and more - we've even got Sony's financial report illustrated with LittleBigPlanet ... » Read More