Though everyone expected Nintendo to release a hardware upgrade for the 3DS, no one really thought the first revamp would be the 3DS XL. In the past, Nintendo has iterated on its handhelds with leaps and bounds, creating gigantic upgrades in the early years of the system’s life. The DS …
Read More »Why the notion that games need photoreal graphics to tell better stories is backward nonsense, whatever 2Ks boss says
A lot of nonsense gets talked in this industry. And a lot of it is best ignored. But sometimes you come across a statement so wrong on so many levels that it’s like a delicately-balanced Jenga stack of wrongness, with so many multi-layered wrongs intricately holding each other in place …
Read More »BLASTERMIND The Numbers Game
Searching desperately for a theme to this week’s quiz, we grasped onto the straw known as “ Warehouse 13 ’s fourth season premiere”. Yep, this week’s selection of films and TV shows all have numbers in their titles! And what’s more, as well as identifying them, we want you to …
Read More »Guild Wars 2 has us excited to finally play an MMO with friends
Guild Wars 2 sports plenty of clever modifications and changes to the typical MMO formula (which you can read about in our last Guild Wars 2 preview) – but none have us as optimistic as the leaps ArenaNet has taken towards fixing the biggest problem with massively multiplayer online RPGs: …
Read More »BLOGBUSTERS Fantasy Franchise Crossovers
Mash-ups are for life, not just for a Glee episode. They’ve also been around for ages and are just as prevalent in movies, books and TV shows. Marvel and DC creative teams would regularly, secretly, hint their characters were in the same universe during the 1970s; Pixar loves hiding the …
Read More »BLOG Marvel NOW! Whatever You Do… Dont Call It A Reboot
(opens in new tab) ( Click on the image for a larger version ) With the summer crossover event Avengers vs. X-Men picking up steam into its second act, fans have been speculating what the post- AvX Marvel universe will look like. Marvel had been promising for months that they’ll …
Read More »GRID 2 is coming. Whats GRID? Only the most important racer of this generation. Heres why…
Talk about Codemasters these days and you probably think of two racing series: F1 and DiRT. But neither of those games would be emblazoned into your brain if it weren’t for Race Driver GRID, which is, incredibly, over four years old. I’m not exaggerating when I say it’s been the …
Read More »Max Payne 3: Local Justice DLC review
Obviously, we’re huge fans of Max Payne 3 (opens in new tab) here at GamesRadar. We loved the single-player campaign, the replayabilty of New York Minute, and the fun of its multiplayer. If you’ve fallen head-on into its online crews, and its online mayhem, you may have an eye on …
Read More »BOND 50 DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of James Bond on the big screen. To celebrate, SFX’s Nick Setchfield revisits each and every 007 adventure in a week by week countdown to Skyfall … MISSION 7: DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (1971) “WHERE’S BLOFELD?” It’s tempting to see the pre-titles of Diamonds Are Forever …
Read More »Falling Skies: Colin Cunningham Interview
(opens in new tab) Aside from Noah Wylie’s heroic Tom Mason and those skitters, one of Falling Skies ’ other most valuable players is rebel with a cause John Pope. Played by Colin Cunningham with equal parts snarky charm and simmering menace, Pope established himself as the street-wise, opportunistic survivor …
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