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Grisly Disney (Hannah Montana: The Movie Game)

24/09/2009

We hear you kids in the back: “Disney is nothing but kiddy bullshit! There’s no way Kingdom Hearts can be hardcore with Mickey Mouse in it.” Really, mister? Then you have no sense of history and you’re about to get some. Wipe away those knee jerk images of princesses and dancing cats - we’re about to expose the bloody, black powder underbelly of Disney’s hardcore legacy of sheer brutality! ...

Will there be any decent movie tie-ins this year? (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)

9/01/2009

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Ghostbusters on C64, Aladdin, Goldeneye, Riddick: the list of great movie tie-ins is barely longer than Russell Crowe’s temper. What chances, then, of even seeing a few good ones during 2009? Can the year that sees Barack Obama’s inauguration, a Michael Jackson comeback, and a Star Trek movie that doesn’t suck, prove that anything is possible?

Ghostbusters: The Video ...

New Moon rising (Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility)

11/06/2007

With more hoeing than Father Christmas, the Harvest Moon games have been providing fine farming fun on Nintendo consoles for ten years. We caught up with creator Yasuhiro Wada to ask him about the series. How did the original idea for Harvest Moon come about? Yasuhiro Wada: I was born and grew up in the countryside, so I wanted to show the appeal of that lifestyle to other people - at the time, there was no such game that showed how good it was to live in the country, so that was one reason. ...

Cow-tipping with Harvest Moon (Harvest Moon Wii)

17/04/2007

Yasuhiro Wada sowed the seeds that would grow to be Harvest Moon, the successful and long-running farming simulator that's been flourishing ever since its 1997 SNES debut. Still going strong in 2007, the series has made the jump to DS and PSP, and there's even one on the way for Wii. Happy to discuss his work, Wada flew to the UK to see our sister site CVG for a quick chat. Harvest Moon may look like a child's game but it's a deep, complicated challenging affiar. What's your philosophy behind ...

Top 5 biggest rip-offs on the Wii (Hasbro Family Game Night 2)

4/11/2009

We hate to sound like cranky ass gamers incapable of embracing “The New,” but we’re just about ready to tell motion controls to f**k off. That initial ocean of vast futuristic potential, promising to turn our entire bodies into dignified instruments of control, has officially run completely dry. ...

The Top 7... Games you don't want for Christmas (Hell's Kitchen: The Video Game)

15/12/2008

On December 26th, the healing process can finally begin. Many will make their yearly pilgrimage to crowded malls in order to return all the unwanted presents they politely pretended to like the day before. Garbage cans will overflow with ravaged wrapping paper. Thoughts will turn towards the inevitable packing away of oversized Santa Clauses, gaudy strings of lights, and wilting Douglas firs. ...

An evening with Uwe Boll (The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return)

29/05/2008

Thanks to his videogame-based cinematic failures, Uwe Boll is one of the most loathed men on the internet right now. In fact his detractors hate his work so much that most of them have never watched any of it.

So in the interests of scientific endeavor, we picked up three Boll DVDs and commited ourselves to watching them all in one night. Does Boll deserve the vitriol he so readily receives from the gaming community? Read on and find out. ...

Lost to antiquity: Games that have aged badly (The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return)

25/03/2008

Some games are utterly timeless. Super Mario Bros is still perfect. Soul Calibur 1 is still beautiful. But this is GR’s Week of Hate, after all. So here are the once-great games that might shock you if you play them today. ...

Console Cameos (The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return)

20/02/2008

Most of us play games to escape reality. For a few brief moments, the trials of the material world trickle away and your only concern is how many goddamn gold coins you can collect in an hour. Then, out of nowhere, a friggin' Xbox 360 console shows up in the actual game and all your suspended disbelief goes right out the window. And it happens more often than you'd think. So often, in fact, that we had little trouble in amassing a large ...

Disabled but deadly: Gaming’s physically challenged killers (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

11/08/2009

In a medium full of perfect teeth, washboard stomachs and breasts that have their own gravitational pull, it’s rare to see characters with disabilities. But they do exist… and they’ve done some badass things. Be it killing gods, eating hardened soldiers or even creating the Nintendo universe; being physically challenged never got in the way of this bunch’s fun.

The End

Disabled and deadly in: Metal Gear Solid 3: ...

If video game characters were Pokemon (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

3/07/2009

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? ...

The 50 most overlooked games of this generation (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

21/05/2009

Some lie, dusty and forgotten, at the bottom of a bargain bin. Others are hard to find outside of an eBay auction. Some received rave reviews, but sold next to nothing. Others sold well, but received almost no attention or love from the hardcore audience. Some you’ve heard about. Others you probably haven’t. ...

Agent Washington's greatest f***ing quotes (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

15/04/2009

The House of the Dead: Overkill is, quite frankly, brilliant. The deliberate continuity errors, the deep-voiced announcer, the crackles on the soundtrack... it's a parody of every '70s horror flick that took itself too seriously. It plays well too and we've been on it all week trying to beat our high scores.

But if it's going to be remembered for anything, it's for potty-mouthed Agent Washington. Here's why ...

House Of The Dead Overkill!: the ultimate B-movie homage (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

23/01/2009

On-rail shooters, for our money, should be dead. But like the brain-hungry, shuffling zombies of House of the Dead: Overkill! Sega have managed have raised them from their grave with this B-movie homage. The cheesy dialogue, OTT monsters and rampant curse words are a world apart from the previously soulless efforts, but with this new direction and balls-out humour, House of the Dead: Overkill! will be the best grindhouse game ever. Here’s why…

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Can Wii gamers be excited for 2009? (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

22/01/2009

This time last year we only had Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii to fend off the baby sims and Mega Party Game Blasts. Nintendo was tight-lipped about E3 and the third party offerings were slim as usual – in other words, there was no respite from the casual flood in sight. ...

GamesRadar's predictions for gaming in 2009 (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

8/01/2009

Guaranteed 100% accurate unless wrong. ...

GamesRadar's Officially Annual Platinum Chalice Awards 2008 (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

19/12/2008

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. ...

The Top 7... Worst scenes in Uwe Boll movies (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

22/09/2008

Movies based on videogames don’t have the best track record. We can think of one or two that are actually good, maybe a few more that are acceptably mediocre, but in general they’re awful piles of shit. And if there’s one man who’s added to that problem more than anyone else, it’s Uwe Boll. ...

TalkRadar 16 (The House of the Dead: Overkill)

29/08/2008

Say hello to our brand-new TalkRadar template! Now each and every podcast has its own page, making it searchable and comment-able for our everlovin’ fanbase. This week we welcome Scott Butterworth from PlayStation: The Official Magazine, discuss dudes who look like chicks and answer more questions from the listeners. ...