The best Xbox 360 games showcase just how many memorable and fantastic titles found a home on Microsoft’s console. To say the Xbox 360 was a huge success is no exaggeration. After first launching in 2005, the console went on to see close 90 million units, with an extensive library …
Read More »Valve reveals it has multiple “exciting” games in development at the moment
Valve has revealed it has “multiple games” in development right now, not only that they are apparently “pretty exciting ones” too. In an interview with Axios (opens in new tab), Valve designer Greg Coomer discussed the Steam Deck and also revealed: “There are multiple games in development right now at …
Read More »6 games that do death differently
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 …
Read More »Skyrim sweeps Interactive Achievement Awards, Portal 2 and Uncharted 3 tie for second best
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences conducted its 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (IAA) in Vegas last night, capping the 2012 DICE. Summit with a tribute to 2011’s top games and game makers. Chief amongst the night’s winners was Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (opens in new tab), …
Read More »Valve reports seventh year of 100% sales growth on Steam
(opens in new tab) 2011 was another successful year for Valve, which announced today that its digital games distribution service Steam enjoyed its seventh year of over 100% sales growth. The announcement follows news of another milestone for the service, which hit a record peak of 5 million concurrent users …
Read More »2011 Platinum Chalice Game of the Year nominees: Portal 2
This Friday, we kick off GamesRadar’s sixth officially annual Platinum Chalice awards, a celebration of the best of what the industry’s given us in 2011. In the run-up to the awards, we’re doing something a little different. Every day this week, we’ll reveal one of our five Game of the …
Read More »TalkRadar UK Episode 93 – Back to basics
TalkRadar UK Fan Art GamesRadar hotline Right, here’s the deal… DO: Send us game related questions/trivia or a confession. Ensure that your text isn’t a small essay. DON’T: Send us chain texts, jokes or requests asking for a job. Got it? So with the serious crap out of the way, …
Read More »PortalCraft mod brings Aperture Science technology to Minecraft
Extreme PortalCraft opens a blue portal in the original Portal, creates an orange portal within Minecraft, and drops all the key elements of the former into the latter while nobody’s looking. The central technology doesn’t suffer a bit from being downgraded into Minecraft’s 8-bit aesthetic, while sounds and gravity mechanics …
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