Gran Turismo

This time next week we’ll be buried under an avalanche of E3 news. Every outlet (including GR) will be tripping over itself to get news posted first, to be a part of the biggest announcements of the world’s premier videogame show. But in just a few weeks, all that hustle and bustle will fade away, and all that breaking news will be replaced by even newer headlines. The cutting edge reports, the reveal trailers, all of it will be commonplace and old.

With that in mind, we thought it’d be (moderately) entertaining to look back five years and recall those moments from E3 2006. Back then, these stories lit up the internet and fueled speculation for months – today, they’re ancient relics most of us barely remember...

Everyone gets lucky in games. Whether it's a fluke knife throw in Modern Warfare 2 or a foul that goes unpunished in FIFA, there's almost always the chance that something 'lucky' will happen in a game. 

But are some games actually based on luck? Are you ever truly in control of your destiny?

Over-complicated explanations of simple games, your questions answered and Uncle Dave's Smartie Lair is all here

The Sony press conference got things underway at gamescom in Germany earlier today. Rumours of a PS3 price drop and an all-new skinny version of the console had been building momentum in the build up to this week's event. So did the PlayStation people deliver? Find out below with our bullet-point rundown of all the Sony conference highlights.

Film/TV shows

Rule 1: Over exuberant button bashing: it’s the law – As portrayed by Adam Sandler in Reign Over Me

If you want to really convince your audience you’re a hardcore gamer raised on the likes on Pong and…erm, that one with the aliens, you’ve got to hammer those buttons. Hard. Watch below as America’s least comedic comedy actor displays the technique admirably during Shadow of the

Last week we weren’t entirely sure what games to expect from the big three console pushers. Oh, we knew a couple of certainties, but overall the slate was wide open, ready to be filled in during their respective press conferences. Today, post-E3, we know exactly what’s in store and what their battle plans are.

The general feeling at GamesRadar is that PSP is still in that tricky launch window. Any week now, we'd say, the games will start coming through. Sure, we've had some great games already, but they're just early attempts – testing the waters so that the big guns can come through. Problem is, the console came out in 2004 and we still feel that way. Or rather, we did... until now