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The best and worst game promo T-shirts (Rayman Raving Rabbids)

20/03/2009

Amongst the games, press releases and bulging envelopes of cash curiously marked '9/10, yeah?' that we receive from publishers each day we also get clothing. Mainly T-shirts of random ill-fitting sizes. And they fall into three categories: Outdoors, Indoors, and Bin. ...

The 12 most useless game trailers (Rayman Raving Rabbids)

18/11/2008

Game advertising is a wacky business. We can picture tireless, cocaine-fueled pitch meetings where PR people strive to find a way to advertise a particular title. It seems as though every commercial boils down to either: gameplay, pre-rendered footage posing as gameplay, a bat-shit insane live action concept, or a amalgam of all those concepts. ...

Gaming's Most Revealing 'Oops' Shots (Rayman Raving Rabbids 2)

10/07/2008

Pixels, polygons and pants. Game ladies' indiscretions caught in still-frame. ...

Find the Rabbids and win an HDTV, Wii and more (Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party)

20/11/2008

If you like your mini-games served with a generous dollop of mental sauce then the recently released Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party is just the ticket. And to celebrate the arrival of this cross-eyed dose of Wii-mote waving madness we've teamed up with Ubisoft to concoct a competition so irresistible that only a raving loony wouldn't be interested in taking part. The motivation? This stupidly wantable prize bundle: A 32" JVC HDTV, a Wii, Wii ...

Nintendo’s secret New York party! (Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party)

16/09/2008

Nintendo Power crossed the 20-year mark in June, a milestone that most bundles of dead trees never reach. To celebrate the occasion, Nintendo and GamesRadar baby daddy Future held a super special party benefiting the Starlight Children’s Foundation. ...

Nintendo Time Capsule: 1997-2001 (Ready 2 Rumble Revolution)

18/09/2009

Nintendo is known for producing unintentionally hilarious promotional videos. In the mid-to-late ‘90s the company pumped out at least one VHS tape a year, each focusing on whatever the newest, greatest release happened to be. Some have become quite famous since then, sprouting all over YouTube and message boards across the net. ...

The (un)funniest games of March (Ready 2 Rumble Revolution)

8/04/2009

When it comes to comedy, no other medium is quite as hit-or-miss as videogames. It’s rare to see a game that’s genuinely funny (on purpose, at least), and most of the games that try range from passably entertaining to insultingly awful. Chalk it up to games and humor being subjective art forms, one man’s culture being another man’s trash, et cetera. ...

Preview promises that didn't deliver (Red Steel)

23/04/2009

Resident Evil 5Light and Dark mechanics

What they promised

Prior to the game’s release, Jun Takeuchi, the producer behind Resi 5, promised heat and lighting effects that would genuinely have an impact on gameplay, in turn, distinguishing it from the illustrious fourth game. He hinted when Chris stepped out into sun-kissed areas from dark buildings the screen would blur, as his eyes adjusted to the change in light. Capcom ...

Games that looked good on paper (Red Steel)

27/02/2009

In all honesty, some games would be better off left on the whiteboard at the design meeting. Whether they're too ambitious, too expensive or simply too good to be true, we're frequently led to imagine great things only to have our expectations dashed when the game finally arrives. How could these games be so good on paper yet underwhelm so spectacularly? Let's take a look... ...

Cool concept art vs. crushing reality (Red Steel)

5/02/2009

Artistic ambition lost in polygon translation. ...

20 MASSIVE games of early 2010 (Red Steel 2)

2/10/2009

Christmas '09 is cancelled, but early next year looks amazing. ...

The games of fall '09 (Red Steel 2)

28/08/2009

The end of summer means the beginning of the game season, and today is the last Friday before the game industry’s big holiday push. Publishers jam the fall with games to challenge the true worth of your credit card – a double dog dare in the uncertain economy of 2009. ...

GC 09: 23 reasons to be fired up for gamescom (Red Steel 2)

17/08/2009

Gamescom is unquestionably more low profile than E3’s explosive LA shindig. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of reasons to get pumped up for the upcoming event in Cologne. Hell, we can think of, oh, at least 23 examples why you should give a damn about the ‘European E3.’ And they all take the form of potentially amazing games. Below you’ll find a line-up of some of the most exciting titles due to ...

What the hell happened to 2009? (Red Steel 2)

31/07/2009

Back in January of this year, we switched on our doom-and-gloom machine and predicted which of 2009’s most anticipated titles would inevitably be pushed back to 2010. We didn’t want to be right. In fact, we spent the next six months wishing, hoping and praying that the industry would prove us wrong. It didn’t. ...

Which console will win Fall 2009? (Red Steel 2)

10/06/2009

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 worst screenshots of E3 2009 (Red Steel 2)

9/06/2009

The whole point of E3 is for publishers and developers to show off their new games under controlled conditions. You know, to let them show them in the way they want them to be seen without journos choosing to show the flaws.

AND YET. We still get sent screenshots that look like someone deliberately picked them to make the game look bad. Look at these amazing examples of fail from this year's show ...

Trailer Trash 10 (Reel Fishing Challenge)

2/07/2009

Thanks to the casual game asplosion, publishers are racing to put every possible leisure activity into Wii form. Our first page of Trailer Trash deals with a few egregious examples of activities that are more fun (and cheaper) in real life than on Wii. ...

Revealed: the games your girlfriend HATES (Resident Evil)

24/03/2009

Contrary to popular belief, most gamers are not sniveling, sweaty-palmed Towers of Awkward roaming the streets in search of any woman who will have them. In fact, most of us find a girl who’s willing to put up with our gaming habits, and forgive the many hours spent saving the world from glowy-eyed zombie Nazis.

But guess what – there’s at least one game that’s driving your girlfriend batshit insane. She might ...

The Top 7… least scary moments in scary games: Redux (Resident Evil)

27/10/2008

This week marks two important milestones for GamesRadar: the start of Halloweek, a weeklong series of horror-centric features, and the two-year anniversary of our weekly Top 7 lists. To celebrate both at once, we’ve dredged up the original Top 7 article - back from before we had our formula down and our shit together – and updated it with fresh art, better layout, a few revisions and videos that actually work. ...

The 37 greatest zombie triumphs (Resident Evil 4)

27/10/2009

You don’t have to see or play absolutely everything on this list to be a proper zombie connoisseur, but you should at least know them. These are the genre’s defining relics. Some are responsible for the very creation of the zombie mythos, others adapted and advanced it, while the rest simply encapsulate it so exquisitely that they must be experienced. This may not be everyone’s definitive list of zombie lore ...