Xbox 360 Features

Thanks to the folks from Homefront, GamesRadar’s got an exclusive glimpse of mankind’s upcoming war with machines. What initially seemed like one of the greatest pieces of swag to enter our offices, turned most ugly indeed! This thinking whirlybird started by simply refusing to obey the orders of his human captors, but then things escalated… it blew office documents everywhere, crashed into walls, and terrorized employees. To what purpose, we still don’t know…

DLC as we know it is still in its infancy and Bethesda has been at the forefront in both its rise to prowess and its much ballyhooed disdain from sectors of the interwebs over the last five years. Thankfully, both Bethesda and the industry at large have come a long way from horse armor, as Fallout 3's line of well-made and game-changing DLC cemented the Maryland-based developer as a leader in the burgeoning digital field. It's a pedigree that Obsidian now has the task of maintaining after their successful (albeit somewhat buggy) first go at the franchise in the form of Fallout: New Vegas. Unfortunately, while Dead Money is full of great dialogue, it's about as fun as running around a bear trap infested town while fighting ghosts with a pea shooter, which is exactly what you end up doing in Obsidian's first crack at DLC...

What is adult? According to ratings boards and hand-wringing politicians, the only qualifications necessary are a bucket of blood, a stream of foul profanity and a parade of naughty lady parts. Ironically, the very things that are included to win over immature teenage boys.

.The following games, however, define adult in a different way. They tackle challenging themes, explore intellectual ideas and deal with complex characters in complicated relationships. They add shades of grey to an otherwise black-and-white form of entertainment...

PAX East preambles, Dragon Age II talk, Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood DLC reviewed, and goddamned birds!

It's a very sexy fact of animal instinct that if a lovely woman in a bikini parades herself about in front of a man, the key areas of male observation will not be anywhere above the shoulders.

This week has brought us the first multiplatform expansion for Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, and with it a whole mess of new Achievements and/or Trophies to bend ourselves out of shape trying to earn. A few of them are specific to the DLC - like GPS (for finishing the eight new story missions, which you can probably do without our help) and Clowning Around (for beating up five creepy Harlequins, which you can find out how to locate by clicking through), but the rest are skill-based challenges that are all easier to get than they might at first seem...

No matter how much we use our 360, our Avatar is often little more than a distraction on our way to playing a game or watching Netflix. Even when the mood strikes to alter our digital doll, we’re rarely happy with the prices on the non-existent goods they can wear. $3 for Modern Warfare night-vision goggles? Another $3 for a monkey? $5 for a Lightsaber?!? That pricing insanity is why we love it when games give those types of things away for free in the form of Avatar Awards...

The early 90’s were a veritable utopia for the fighting game genre. Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Virtua Fighter, Soul Edge, and any other series worth mentioning made its debut during this time. Those were the halcyon days when you could sprint into the nearest arcade, kick someone in their digitized nuts, and then rip their head off without your mother’s incessant whining about “human decency...”

As a Spectre, Commander Shepard is devoted to justice and security by any means necessary. And while most of us would still choose to guide him down the friendly Paragon path, Shepard's sweeping authority gives him the right to punch people in the face for any reason. So, with a galaxy at stake (and a vengeful gamer at the helm), his trip through the Mass Effect galaxy quickly devolve into pure assholery.