Any old Tom, Dick or Harry with a comprehensive grip of computer programming and loads of money-men friendly ideas can spew forth a game that’ll sell a shit-load of copies. With that in mind, and a science stick gripped in one hand, we’ve come up with full-proof calculations on how to make the perfect moolah-making game for most of the major genres. Below you’ll find the perfect titles that’ll make any suit sully his ... » Read More

Feb 24, 2009

Gaming's most murdered characters

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

Some characters are just doomed to die in games. It seems the Nazis were born to wear sharp uniforms and chow down on your bullets like a tasty bratwurst. Cops are always destined to get blown up by your rocket launcher a day before retirement. And the sole purpose of videogame zombies is to have Piñata-style heads that explode with the slightest contact – just replace the tasty treats with festering bits of frontal ... » Read More

Feb 6, 2009

Warning: This article definitely contains spoilers

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

Right, Darth Vader is Luke’s father, Bruce Willis is dead in the Sixth Sense, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are the same person in Fight Club. There, we’ve just ruined three movies for you. We’re fairly sure you won’t care about us ruining these plot twists by the end of this article, though, as we’re about to spill the beans on 80 (some potentially game-ruining) spoilers. ... » Read More

Feb 4, 2009

How Metacritic rules the games industry

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

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

Jan 14, 2009

How the hell was this ever controversial?!

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

For a medium that lets us chainsaw faces off, punch presidents in their plums and slaughter endangered species, it's amazing how sensitive some of us get when developers do things we don't agree with. Certainly there have been many decisions to get us all worked up, whether it's Killzone 2's 'target footage' or Shigsy shedding that last bit of lingering dignity by playing Wii Music like a diminutive Japanese John Williams. That’s ... » Read More

Jan 14, 2009

Killzone 2 vs 2008's best shooters

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

In a little over a month, one of the great burning questions of the current-gen console war will be settled: Does Killzone 2 live up to the hype that Sony started when it unveiled that infamous “target footage” at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo? For that matter, is it any good at all? To help answer these questions (and pour a little more fuel on the fire), we’ve decided to pit Killzone 2 directly agains three of last year’s biggest shooters: Gears of War 2, Resistance 2 and Call of Duty: World at War (Left 4 Dead, meanwhile, was judged simply too awesome to participate) ... » Read More

Dec 10, 2008

Whose co-op is best?

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

Looking for a game you can play with your friends? We’ve dispatched our crack team of editors to sort through six of this holiday’s top games and deliver a verdict on the season’s best co-op offerings. For this feature we focused on high-profile shooters and action games, because it doesn’t really make sense to compare Animal Crossing or LittleBigPlanet to Gears of War or Call of Duty. ... » Read More

Dec 1, 2008

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

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

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

Nov 14, 2008

TalkRadar 27 – it's a g-g-girl!

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

This is it folks, the massive barrage of new games that’s threatened us for months while we patiently twiddled our stupid thumbs over the entire summer. Why can’t they release this crap steadily throughout the year (and don’t say “Christmas”)? Anywho, we’re talking up the many, many new games this week, including Call of Duty, Mirror’s Edge and Banjo Kazooie, plus the Top 7 and a boatload of community goodness. ... » Read More

Nov 10, 2008

The Top 7... worst release dates EVER

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

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. ... » Read More

Nov 7, 2008

TalkRadar 26 – OXM, PTOM fight!

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

Can you believe it? T-Dar is officially half a year old! Dan Amrich from OXM and Scott Butterworth of PTOM fame team up with Chris and Brett to make this a podcast for the ages... if ages were determined by discussions about videogame presidents, Gears of War 2 and how to get kicked off Xbox Live. ... » Read More

Nov 5, 2008

Resistance 2 Complete Briefcase Guide

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

You’ve destroyed Daedalus and mastered the multiplayer, but there’s still one challenge left in Resistance 2: collecting all the cases. It might be that you’re only missing that lone tough one in Chapter 4 or maybe you haven’t even begun to search. Either way, our video guide is the solution to your briefcase related problems. For all other problems we suggest checking the Resistance 2 cheat page. ... » Read More

Sep 19, 2008

TalkRadar 19 – thievery!

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

Would you look at that, a whole new podcast done sprung up unnerneath our feet! If’n we was a bettin’ folk, we’d rightly say this week’s podcast is a durn-tootin’ romp-a-bout filled with tales of lyin’, cheatin’ and some other such nonsense. Then we scoot on to topics akin to Rock Band, Force Unleashed, Mega Man 9 and a whole mess more. Give ol’ T-Dar a try, ya shan’t regret it! ... » Read More

Jul 15, 2008

E3 08: Why wait? E3's biggest games reviewed NOW

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

You know the problem with E3? You have to wait months before you find out if a game that looked great in July is going to kick ass or blow goats when it finally arrives in November. And it it sucks, you feel deflated. If only you could read, right here and right now, which games are really worth eagerly anticipating and which you should just start fitting for cement shoes right now. Wouldn't that make the world a better place? Here, for the very first time, are the exclusive first reviews for all of the games you're most excited about this very E3. ... » Read More

Jul 7, 2008

Next-Gen's 30 most anticipated games of E3

PS3 Feature | Resistance 2

In choosing games for this list, we kept an eye on games most likely to succeed at the market. We also tried to keep in mind potential critical reception based on developer track record, previous franchise performance, and how the titles have been presented in the media thus far. Naturally we also picked the titles we are most excited to play at the show, but in short, these are the games to keep an eye on, because these are the games that ... » Read More

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