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100 reasons fanboys hate shooters (Cabela's Alaskan Adventures)

25/03/2009

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. ...

100 reasons fanboys hate shooters (Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009)

25/03/2009

100 reasons fanboys hate shooters (Cabela's Trophy Bucks)

25/03/2009

The most misleading game ads of all time (Call of Duty 2)

18/03/2009

Traditionally, a videogame advert is supposed to highlight its product’s strong points in a concise, well-edited package that screams to impressionable consumers: “Buy me, and all my officially-endorsed peripherals!”. That, or be a 30 second, cynically-produced tapestry of lies made to trick and entice people with big explosions, misleading FMV and lady parts.

The latter is the sure-fire path to tread if you’re ...

7 ways to spot an impending crap sequel (Call of Duty 3)

31/07/2008

So many sequels, so much hype, so little time... Let our foolproof guide help you cut through the crap before it's even released ...

The Most Gratuitous Headshots Video Ever (Call of Duty 3)

3/07/2008

Two minutes. One video. Fifty-five perforated skulls. ...

New Year's solutions (Call of Duty 3)

4/01/2007

Did you behave well enough last year for Santa to bring you some new games for Christmas? Stuck on them already? Well, don't worry, we've put together a little something for you to unwrap now - that's right, the best cheats, hints and easter eggs for the top-selling Christmas games. Just hit the tabs on the left for the games you want to know about. Many of these cheats were sent in by our readers through CheatPlanet.com (thank you kindly) - so why not share your own best cheats and tricks ...

100 reasons fanboys hate shooters (Call of Duty 4)

25/03/2009

Gaming's most murdered characters (Call of Duty 4)

24/02/2009

Some characters are just doomed to die in games. It seems the Nazis were born to wear sharp uniforms and chow down on your bullets like a tasty bratwurst. Cops are always destined to get blown up by your rocket launcher a day before retirement. And the sole purpose of videogame zombies is to have Piñata-style heads that explode with the slightest contact – just replace the tasty treats with festering bits of frontal ...

The game credit sequences you'll actually enjoy (Call of Duty 4)

15/01/2008

15th Jan, 2007 The end credits of a game are usually by far the worst part. We're not talking about the game's ending here. Those can be spectacular. No, what we mean is the actual credits themselves. Not only are they the visual death toll of another game over, but all they offer you in consolation is the boring visage of a lot of names scrolling up the screen. And these days it's a lot of names. Back in the 8-bit home computer days we usually got away with one guy's signature on a title ...

Modern Warfare: The story so far (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

10/11/2009

Like most of you, we plowed through Call of Duty 4’s single-player campaign in a day and then spent the next couple of years blasting away at multiplayer. It’s not that the campaign was horrible, far from it. The first Modern Warfare employed innovative techniques that pushed the boundaries of interactive storytelling. ...

The most sick, morally questionable Achievements and Trophies (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

24/09/2009

In the context of a game, Achievements and Trophies are harmless. They're just carrot-dangling tactics that we're happy to indulge for our greedy pursuit of intangible virtual rewards. We wouldn't think twice about nail-bombing a kitten orphanage if it meant five more gamer points.

But, let's say, purely for the purposes of this here article, that we take Achievements and Trophies out of their virtual world settings and reconsider them ...

Technically, that's not correct... (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

25/08/2009

Game developers are wrong about 90% of everything 83% of the time. I know, because I’m a super-expert on facts. My dad invented facts. So hold on to your sugary carbonated bevorage, uncross your legs and take your left hand off your face, because I'm about to drop a straight-up 10-megaton truth bomb on this bitch. All the subjective bullshit and “artistic license” that game designers cower behind is polluting the hard facts... ...

The Top 7... games that need prequels (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

17/08/2009

Every time a game is successful, critically or commercially, folks start speculating about sequels. Will there be a sequel? How many sequels? When will we see the sequel? What will happen in the sequel? Who shows up in the sequel? Sequel? ...

TalkRadar UK #3: Now with half an hour more waffle (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

15/07/2009

TalkRadar UK podcast #3 is GO! ...

Classic mistakes rookies always make (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

9/07/2009

Ah, noobs. With their awkward fingers and stupid questions, it's a wonder we ever let them near our joypads at all. It's nice to get someone started in gaming, but it's so hard to witness utter incompetence at your favourite games.

But instead of yelling, snatching the pad and showing them how it should be done, why not sit back, make encouraging noises and tick off each entry in our list of classic rookie mistakes ...

Games invade Google Street View (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

25/06/2009

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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Which number is the best number? (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

15/05/2009

Because we enjoy making graphs, looking at graphs, and talking about graphs so darn much, we decided to do a little research experiment. Our goal was to discover which numbered entry in a game series (not the number of games into the series, the actual number in the game’s title) is most often the best. Is it scientific? Not in the least, but it still might surprise you. ...

Five rules for introducing your girlfriend to gaming (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

15/04/2009

I’m not a miserable sexist ass; I’m just a practical observer. One thing I’ve observed is that men and women are different (I figured that one out pretty early on). Since I’m a rational person, I’m aware that nothing is entirely one way or another. Even the divide between life and death is ambiguous (uh, zombies, amirite?). ...

100 reasons fanboys hate shooters (Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare)

25/03/2009