Tag Archives: NES

In games, nothing can be said to be certain except death and well, mostly that. Death as a consequence of failure has been a part of games since the days of Spacewar!, and what came after has stayed pretty much the same: a Game Over screen, a Continue? prompt (maybe …

Everything’s changed in the seven years since Shadow Complex first hit Xbox 360. Metroidvania games, once an endangered species, are now plentiful. Nolan North was still only in about half of all games rather than pretty much all of them. And everyone thought Shadow Complex was just the beginning of …

Long before people even used the phrase “indie game,” Ska Studios was pumping out unusual, artful, deeply awesome independently developed games. While they gained their biggest following thanks to Xbox 360 games like The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai and Charlie Murder, they’ve been pumping out something new almost every year since …

With our old Guardian bones weary of raids on the moon, we’re ready for a change. We’re ready for a city that, despite being ravaged by an apocalyptic viral outbreak, still never sleeps. We’re ready to dig into The Division. Join the GamesRadar crew for a tour of the game’s …

The last time GR+ Live played a Quantic Dream game, we felt things. We felt them all over the place. We felt things so hard that we ruined the worst high school party of all time. Now we’re ready to feel things all over again with a live session of …

Devil’s Third shouldn’t exist. Six years in development, bounced between three publishers, and shifting between four different engines in the process, the first game from notorious developer Tomonobu Itagaki since Ninja Gaiden 2 finally came to Nintendo Wii U this past week. Was it worth the wait? That’s a complicated …

Science has mostly usurped the supernatural in our collective consciousness, but the concept of magic is too old and too meaningful to just fade away. The inexplicable continues to slip through the chinks in reason, taking the form of ghostly presences, statistical flukes, and psychedelic experiences. But the kind of …

Metal Gear Solid is very serious business, except for when it’s not. The series has deftly straddled the line between the solemn and the goofy, the mundane and the fantastical, ever since its inception in 1987. I can’t think of too many games that can feature a scene requiring you …

If you’ve ever sat there angrily stabbing the A button while trying to skip the obligatory tutorial section of a modern Zelda game, spare a thought for those who didn’t have the luxury of such mentoring back in the day.I was one of those poor souls, a mere six years …

Check the meter For as long as there have been video games there have been systems in place to ensure that those video games do not continue on unabated. After all, what good is a truly endless experience, an interaction without incentive? Once the initial novelty wears off, what then? …