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Rage (Rage)

Nov 26, 2008

Beautiful game engines for less than beautiful beasts roaming beautifully grimy corridors. From their birth in 1992, this has been the id way. Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake: grim, grimmer, grimmest. However, if up until now their artistic direction was based solely on Event Horizon, then Rage marks an influx of new DVDs onto the id film shelf. ...

Rage (Rage)

Sep 26, 2008

This is id Software’s first properly new game since 1996. Just think about that. Various versions of Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein have marched from id’s Texas offices over the past 12 years, yet the team’s creative muscles haven’t flexed on anything fresh for more than a decade. ...

Ratatouille - first look (Ratatouille)

Mar 2, 2007

If Ratatouille weren't based on a film, its story - about a rat named Remy who wants to become a world-class French chef - would probably elevate it to weird-work-of-genius status. As it is, this platform-hopping adventure is relegated to the realm of baby games, although that doesn't mean it should be ...

5 things you'll hate about Ratchet & Clank Future (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)

Aug 17, 2007

Right now, every other major game-news outlet on the planet is telling you about the trip they took down to developer Insomniac's headquarters in Burbank, Calif., last week to play Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, and how awesome the game is going to be. We took the same trip, but even though we liked what we saw, and even though we're confident Insomniac won't release anything less than a top-notch product, there were a few things that got under our skin. They got under a lot of ...

E3 07: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction - hands-on (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)

Jul 13, 2007

Ratchet and Clank, the alien Lombax-and-robot duo whose adventures helped define the PS2 era, have gone through a lot of changes over the last few years. with Ratchet covering himself up with more and more armor (leading up to the ridiculous Master Chief outfit from Ratchet: Deadlocked), his weapons have gotten increasingly ridiculous and Clank has gone from pursuing a movie career to being shut out of the game entirely (again, see Deadlocked). With Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of ...

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)

Jun 7, 2007

Since their adventures in the Shadow Sector in Deadlocked, our heroes have been enjoying some well deserved R&R. Ratchet has been pondering his origins, and his lonely life as the only known Lombax in the universe. Enter Emperor Tachyon, leader of a race of hideous insect-like creatures. Hes been obsessed with wiping out the Lombax for centuries and now hes come for everyones favorite kitten of mass destruction. The Emperor attacks in the opening moments of the game, resulting in a ...

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)

May 9, 2007

You wouldnt know it from the games sub-title, Tools of Destruction, but this is supposed to be a return to the series early days when platforming and exploring the colorful, cartoony world took precedence over blowing the hell outta stuff. Not that theres anything wrong with outright carnage when youre blessed with weapons as inventive as the ones Ratchet has been lucky enough to lay his hands ...

PS3 Ratchet: It's not all about guns (Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction)

Apr 12, 2007

Building on the bright and breezy world youve already seen in the trailer for Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, new screenshots have been released for their first foray onto the PS3, and it looks absolutely gorgeous. Equally stunning is the confirmation from developer Insomniac that the series will move away from Ratchets aggressive, combat orientated exploits in Up Your Arsenal and Gladiator to return to its platforming roots. The intention, according to Insomniac president Ted ...

Red Faction: Guerrilla - hands-on (Red Faction: Guerrilla)

Dec 4, 2008

Open world, powerful weapons, two-story mechs, and completely destructible environments – these are all things on our wish-list for how to make the ultimate shooter, and they’re also some of the key features in THQ’s upcoming third-person destructathon, Red Faction: Guerrilla. ...

Red Faction: Guerilla - hands on (Red Faction: Guerrilla)

Apr 4, 2008

We’re fresh from our first hands-on time with Red Faction: Guerilla at THQ’s Editors Day. We were fortunate enough to have Dan Cermak, Vice President ad developer Volition, to walk us through a small slice of Red Faction: Guerilla’s open, destructible world. Red Faction: Guerilla is the third game set in the Red Faction universe, 50 years after the events of the first game. Mars has been terraformed, and the Earth Defense Force (savior of the first RF) has become Big Brother. ...

Resident Evil 5 – hands-on (Resident Evil 5)

Nov 21, 2008

Resident Evil 5 played us like a flute at October’s Tokyo Game Show, packing into two new trailers enough nudging references to keep fans bickering for months. Could Jill Valentine really be dead, as ‘evidenced’ by a briefly glimpsed tombstone? ...

Resident Evil 5 – hands-on (Resident Evil 5)

Sep 5, 2008

We’ve all had that chat. You know, you’re sitting around with your mates, and you all say that you’d be safe in a zombie apocalypse, because you’re fast, strong, or good with a knife. ...

LGC 08: Why wait? Leipzig's biggest games reviewed NOW! (Resident Evil 5)

Aug 26, 2008

Knee-jerk reviews after ten minutes' play-time. As is only right and proper. ...

Capcom's Captivate 08 coverage (Resident Evil 5)

Jun 3, 2008

Last week Capcom revealed one of its strongest lineups in ages during the Captivate 08 event (we briefly talked about it on TalkRadar). The embargos have lifted and now we're able to say what we saw, what we played and what totally stole the show (it surprised the hell out of us, that's for sure). We'll be adding links throughout the day, so read on! ...

Resident Evil 5 - first impressions (Resident Evil 5)

Jun 3, 2008

No matter what angle you approach it from, Resident Evil 5 has a lot to prove. It's the first sequel released in the HD era, so the visuals have to destroy everything else on the market. RE4 redefined the series and became one of the biggest hits of the past generation, basically demanding that part 5 up the ante all over again. Cries of racism continue to batter the ...

Shocking new Resident Evil 5 info (Resident Evil 5)

Jul 19, 2007

Resident Evil 5's producer Jun Takeuchi has spilled the undead beans on some of the features of his new game - and it seems you really should be afraid of the dark. And the light too, for that matter. As confirmed character Chris Redfield moves from light areas to dark and vice versa, aiming (and indeed seeing) will be impossible, as his eyes must first adjust to the light. Knowing what kind of surprises Capcom likes to hide in darkened rooms, this sounds pretty scary to us. Takeuchi revealed ...

Resident Evil 5 (Resident Evil 5)

Feb 26, 2007

Resident Evil 5 facts are still scarce, despite this A-grade five-quel being announced way, way back in July 2005. The lack of updates isnt that surprising when you consider our moles in Capcom are saying the games script hasnt even been finished yet. What have they been up to all this time? Well, heres literally everything we know… and a bit we, uh, ...

Resistance 2 (Resistance 2)

Mar 17, 2008

Resistance had its fair share of critics. Consider the following statement: "Few knew who this Sergeant Nathan Hale was, why the American soldier with an impossibly generic face had muscled into Britain’s fight for survival against the Chimera menace. Or why it was thought a workable idea for him to be described in the third-person throughout a first-person game." No, that’s not a quote from Captain Rachel Parker, ...

Resistance: Fall of Man (Resistance: Fall of Man)

Nov 10, 2006

The PlayStation 3 is just around the bend, and this was underscored this week not only by the arrival of our first retail system but also by a two-day trip down to Insomniac Games, where we played the living hell out of the shiny new first-person shooter, Resistance: Fall of Man. Insomniac seems proud of Resistance, even if it does seem a little unusual for such a dark, gritty game to come from the studio that brought us the funny and fuzzy Ratchet & Clank. Indeed, Insomniac is calling it the ...

Resistance: Fall of Man - hands-on (Resistance: Fall of Man)

Sep 15, 2006

The year is 1951, and mankind is on the verge of extinction. After appearing suddenly in Russia, monsters known as Chimera swept across Asia and Europe like a cancer. They overwhelmed humanity with superior numbers and advanced technology. For a while they seemed contained, but then came the day they tunneled under the English Channel. Britain fell in days. Such is the world of Nathan Hale, the American G.I. who becomes the hero of Resistance: Fall of Man. Taking place in an alternate history ...