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The Bruce Lee Lookalikes Choir (Dead or Alive 3)

Feb 18, 2009

Remember the story we did a while back on Bruce Lee clones? We can’t get enough kung fu, so we cut together this mashup tune from the extra footage we had lying around. Here are the results, in all their ear-splitting glory. Prepare yourself for the Kung Fu Soundwave! ...

The games that shaped a generation: Xbox (Dead or Alive 3)

Mar 30, 2007

25. Dead or Alive 3 Team Ninja | Tecmo | 2001 Buxom beauties (and, we're pretty sure, some male characters too) meet to fight in cosplay heaven in this sassy one-on-one beat 'em-up What made it so great? Didn't you hear us? Girls fighting one-on-one? Dubious teenage fantasy scenario aside, the game is still a furious and explosive take on the previously staid genre. With electrified fences around some stages, massive windows to smash your opponent through and multi-tiered fighting arenas, ...

Games invade Google Street View (Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball)

Jun 25, 2009

Have you ever seen Google Street View in action? It's incredible, and already coming up with some amazing images... it's a wonder the world survived without it. But we've spotted some more familiar faces in the passers by.

Can you spot them too?

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The secretly sinister storylines of your favourite games (Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball)

Jun 12, 2009

You never knew they were so wrong... ...

11 hot women that have played game characters in movies (Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball)

Apr 2, 2009

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Is an actress and model.

Is a rendered 3D model.

High attraction.

Low resolution.

Classy Raccoon City looker.

Cheap Raccoon City hooker.

Assembled by the Gods.

Poorly assembled polygons.

Femme fatale.

Naked ...

Games you can't play in front of your girlfriend (Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball)

Feb 14, 2007

Real men play sports, drink beer, and know a thing or two about fixing cars. They don't know the difference between the starship Enterprise and Starship Troopers, and they don't fool around or play any games - at least, not ones like these. We're talking about the sorts of games that can be landmines of embarrassment waiting to explode, ruining your image as a somewhat normal guy. Or worse yet, the ones that are so appealing to the opposite sex that you may never get your hands on your ...

Chinatown: Videogames versus reality (Dead to Rights)

Mar 17, 2009

Thanks to two films - Chinatown and Blade Runner - every action game is practically required to have a Chinatown level. It’s not the Chinatown you see in real-life - a thriving community and marketplace established over a unique hybrid of Western and Chinese culture – no, it’s all neon signs and gangsters, dragon statues and tile roofs. A lot of tile roofs. And it's usually in the future or ...

The Top 7... alien invasions (Destroy All Humans)

Nov 7, 2006

Gears of War got us thinking: Massive explosions. Guts strewn everywhere. People running in terror. Few things ignite the minds of gamers like a good alien invasion. It may be bizarre or terrifying (and in the case of Gears of War, it may come from underground instead of outer space) but in video games, aliens always bring massive destruction in their wake. This week, we take a look back at the seven games with the most memorable, exciting or disturbing alien invasions... ever. 7. Halo 2 ...

The Top 7… 'Whoops, you're evil!' moments (Deus EX: Invisible War)

Mar 2, 2009

Stripped down to the bone, most videogames are about running errands: go here, kill that thing over there, bake a cake. There’s almost always a clear justification for them – save the world, get revenge, etc. – but usually, the real reason you do these things is simply because the game told you to. But can the game be trusted? Are you fighting for the right side? How can you be sure? ...

Gaming's freakiest monsters: A biological study (Doom 3)

Oct 28, 2009

Perhaps better than any other creative medium, videogames have managed to recreate entire ecosystems of imaginary creatures and presented them in an observable context. Books and movies may offer detailed glimpses of anatomy and behavior, but only in videogames does the observer interact with organisms and experience behaviors first hand. ...

The 37 greatest zombie triumphs (Doom 3)

Oct 27, 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 ...

Videogame music makes The Matrix better (Doom 3)

May 22, 2009

VIDEO: Plus a hellishly good mystery mash-up to complete a double-bill of overdubbed wonderment. ...

Soundtracks you didn't know were stolen (Doom 3)

May 13, 2009

Sunsets, love, war, babies, baby war… There’s just no telling when and where exactly musical inspiration will strike. Well, with the exception of this here article. Using GamesRadar’s collective knowledge of games and music, we managed to scrape together numerous instances of game soundtracks that were, let’s just says, all too familiar for an expose decades in the making. ...

13 greatest enemies that are also round (Doom 3)

Apr 14, 2009

There are enemies that are circular, and there are enemies that aren’t circular. These are the ones that are circular.

Euclidian geometry defines circles as the points on a plane which are the same distance from another point called the center, got it? That’s awesome. There is no geometric definition for enemies, but if there was it would define them as the guys that kill you. ...

The shortest game names of all time (Doom 3)

Apr 14, 2009

Earlier this year we deduced that Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Eye of the Beholder II – The Legend of Darkmoon is the longest game name out there. Reader comments quickly proved there were a few names out there just as long or even longer, but will you be able to find a name that’s shorter than those on this list?

Collected here are the simplest, monosyllabic game names we could dig up ...

100 reasons fanboys hate shooters (Doom 3)

Mar 25, 2009

Cue the banjo! It wouldn’t be the Week of Hate without our trademark “100 Reasons” videos. In case you missed it, last year we targeted game platforms. So this year we thought we’d change it up and go after a few popular genres. Up first, the ubiquitous shooter. ...

The world's best game devs in their own words (Doom 3)

Mar 11, 2009

The secrets of their success in their own words. ...

These games are not what you think they are (Doom 3)

Feb 18, 2009

Why Sonic isn't a platformer and Final Fantasy isn't an RPG at all. ...

59 levels to play before you die: D - G (Doom 3)

Mar 21, 2008

A leisurely saunter through the UAC base lets you casually get attached to the game world, before the thick sense of impending disaster explodes in the most horribly visceral way imaginable. You’re suddenly alone in a dark and noisy world of fear and confusion. The people you met earlier are dead, dying, and torn to pieces. ...

The ports that had no right to work (Doom 3)

Dec 7, 2007

7th Dec, 2007 You know what its like. Youve just created a brand new videogame and you want to show it to the world. Youre proud of your creation. Its taken you months, if not years, to make and you want as many people as possible to share in your joy at its release. Itd also be nice to make a bit of extra money out of it. So you start porting it to different ...