Next week, we’ll know. Next week, the Electronic Entertainment Expo will begin and nearly every major publisher and developer will reveal their secrets. Next week, we’ll know which rumors were true and which games actually exist. After next week, the future will be (somewhat) clear. Seriously, though, where’s the fun in that? We prefer this week, when the mystery still remains and our imaginations can still roam wild. ... » Read More

11 May 2009

The Top 7... game religions

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Founded by a group of religious cultists who worship an unexploded megaton bomb, who then built their church at the centre of the crater the bomb created. These Children of Atom believe that the atomic masses released by nuclear bombs contain whole universes and are therefore sacred. How about being constantly surrounded by the most upbeat, glass half full folk any of us are ever likely to meet? Full ... » Read More

25 Mar 2009

Beloved games we hate

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Gamers are a diverse and extremely opinionated bunch. If you love something with all your heart and soul, we guarantee you that someone else hates it with an equal amount of passion. Chances are good, in fact, that the person who despises your precious favorite is a person you know, like or even trust. Your favorite GamesRadar editor, for example… ... » Read More

20 Feb 2009

TalkRadar 39

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Topics discussed: The Top 7… worst games in great gamesAhhhh Blitzball… Street Fighter IVPlayStation: The Official Magazine’s Scott Butterworth is here to talk about his glowing Street Fighter review. Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned PENIS! Or a discussion of the most significant DLC ever released. Prinny: Can I Really be the Hero? D00d! ... » Read More

13 Aug 2008

Gaming's fittest fatties

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Video game characters are increasingly becoming the poster children for gym membership. With most of gaming’s heroes and heroines being chiseled, pert and with cheek bones you could grate cheese on, there seems to be less and less room for the more gelatinous gentleman in the industry. ... » Read More

28 May 2008

Hooker Beauty Contest: GTA IV Edition

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Okay... put those last-gen Ladies of the Evening out of your mind, because the consummate professionals of Grand Theft Auto IV are here to strut the concrete catwalk. That’s right, the Hookers of GTA IV have arrived, and despite only coming in white and skinny, or fat and black, they’re positively overflowing with next-gen gutter-glam. ... » Read More

16 May 2008

Grand Theft Radar: Art vs Game

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Ever since the advent of Grand Theft Auto III, the GTA series has practically been defined by the iconic art that's accompanied every release. It's adorned every cover and loading screen in the series so far, and when it changes - as it did to reflect the more realistic tone of Grand Theft Auto IV - people take notice. Distinct and memorable, it's added to the series' hip edge and made its characters into fearsome symbols of fearsome badassery, giving them a larger-than-life quality that jumbles of in-game polygons just can't pull off. ... » Read More

8 May 2008

Are they still worth playing?

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We know that all you GTA heads are neck-deep in the beautifully rendered corpses of mid-level irritating crime-boss douchebags, but let’s take a moment and consider our roots. Liberty wasn’t always this chock-full of cell phone blabbing pedestrians, road raging grandma SUV pilots, and rights-violating officers of the law. In a simpler time, there was only one camera view looking down on all the chaos and the citizens were jaggy ... » Read More

25 Apr 2008

The complete history of Grand Theft Auto

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Crime doesn’t pay. But virtual crime? That does pay. And by the bucket-load. Even by the time the series reached Florida, it was breaking records in a major way, with Vice City becoming the fastest-selling PS2 title ever - until San Andreas beat it. And that’s despite four million Americans pre-ordering Vice City, and a million more buying it upon its release (here in the UK, the Miami Vice-vibed title shifted over a quarter of ... » Read More

23 Apr 2008

Grand Theft Radar: Did that just happen?

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23 Apr 2008

Grand Theft Radar: Hooker Beauty Contest

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Heroes, cities and decades change, but in the world of Grand Theft Auto, the hard-working hooker will forever remain. No matter what the year or console, we can always count on her to patrol our virtual streets and stir up our real world controversy. Isn't it time, then, that this beloved gaming icon received the spotlight she deserves? And more importantly, isn't it fun to laugh at really cruddy last-gen graphics? We think so. ... » Read More

23 Apr 2008

Grand Theft Radar: Is GTA as clever as it thinks...

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"Everything about Vice City positively reeks of genius."- TotalGames.net"San Andreas successfully fuses its grand scale with consistently clever missions..."- GMR Magazine, Nov. 2004"[GTA III is] the most innovative, outlandish, brilliant video game I've ever seen."- Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine, Jan. 2002Genius? Clever? Brilliant? Really?Well, OK, yes. As a series, Grand Theft Auto has always been heaped ... » Read More

15 Apr 2008

What type of GTA player are you?

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Anticipating the approach of the latest Grand Theft Auto isn’t the same as yearning for a new Halo or Resident Evil. Most games make you anticipate the experience that the designers dole out to you in a prescribed way, whereas with GTA, you anticipate all the ways in which you will create experiences of your own design. Even if the main draw for some players is the story - and the marketing for GTAIV aims to show this will be the ... » Read More

21 Mar 2008

59 levels to play before you die: G - L

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Legions of exasperated gamers whined that Kratos' escape from the bowels of Hell - complete with rotating columns of bladey cartilage, platforms of bone and two huge towers of spinning blades - was 'stupid', 'cheap' or 'toohardIwantmymummy!' but we loved it. ... » Read More

22 Feb 2008

Gaming's greatest Fatties

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Just in time for Black History Month, GamesRadar is proud to present a completely unrelated article about fat people. Chubbies are everywhere these days. Your next door neighbor could be a fatty. More than likely, your mom is one, too. Oh, Snap! ... » Read More

27 Jun 2007

Grand Theft Piñata: Filled with Guns!

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What if your Fizzlybear developed a taste for the 40 ounce? Or your Fudgehogs started puffing blunts and cruising in lowriders? Here's how we envision the mean streets of South Central Piñata Island, a magical land where throwing your ho a beating might make candy come out! Minors beware, this video has more swearing than you can shake a stick at - definitely not safe for work or children. But then, this is why we love the internets more than TV, ... » Read More

1 May 2007

Grand Theft Auto: Loose ends

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With Grand Theft Auto IV taking a new, more realistic direction in a radically different vision of Liberty City, it seems more and more as though the series - like its new protagonist, Niko Bellic - is angling for a fresh start. The cartoonish mayhem of previous GTAs seems out of place in this bleak new vision of Liberty, and according to our UK counterparts, virtually no familiar faces will appear in GTA IV. But that doesn't necessarily mean we've seen the last of them. Rockstar's left a lot ... » Read More

4 Apr 2007

Nine gems of gaming merchandise

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Working as a games journalist has its good points. There's the fame, the money, the endless barrage of adoring, screaming women who follow you whenever you walk down the street... oh, wait a minute, that's being a rock star. Um... ok, well at least there's still the free stuff we get sent 'most every day. The quality varies considerably, but there are some real gems of PR merchandising that would probably be worth loads of money on eBay. Of course, by contract we're not allowed to sell them, ... » Read More

28 Mar 2007

Battle of the GTAs

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Ever since the release of 2001's groundbreaking Grand Theft Auto III, there've been seemingly hundreds of games that shamelessly rip off its free-roaming, carjacking open-world formula. But as hard as the pretenders try, there's still only one ... » Read More

27 Mar 2007

Battle of the GTA clones

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The funny thing about inventing a genre of videogames is that, until it becomes completely played out, every game that emulates your formula is going to be attached to your name. Games that feature a wide-open, freely explorable world, for example, will have a hard time avoiding the label of "Grand Theft Auto clone," especially if their worlds are littered with vehicles to steal and drive. In the six years since Grand Theft Auto III, a slew of games have tried to become "the next GTA," but so ... » Read More