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A life lived in ignorance is a life half-lived On Sunday, November 16th 2014, Half-Life 2 turned 10 years old. Crazy, right? And even after a decade, the influence of Valve’s most monumental sequel can still be felt in the current gaming ecosystem. The Half-Life name is just as potent …

Silver lining Not every game can be BioShock or The Last of Us–for every critically-acclaimed hit, there are dozens of games that end up in the bargain bin. Some of these are total train-wrecks (I’m looking at you, Ride to Hell: Retribution), but others actually have some damn good ideas …

PS4 rules! Are you a fanboy? Or a fangirl? I dont discriminate. Personally, I think theres a fanboy or girl in all of us. GamesRadar’s recent, rather excellent feature about the psychology of fanboys (opens in new tab) explains why its very natural, very human to pick sides and defend …

Don’t cry We’ve given you a complete history of failed consoles, lovingly suffocating you with info on almost 60 mediocre machines in the process. And while well all be better off never mentioning the Casio Loopy or Action Max again, we just had the nagging feeling that some of the …

This is the first slide of the Top 7 From the wooden floorboards of the theater stage, to the plastic housing of your grandparents old CRT TV, the fourth wall has long been used as a way to describe the barrier between performance and audience. But that magic transparent window …

Cheerleaders, eh? The candy floss of the human race, are they not? Sugary, fluffy, and without much substance, they might be eye-catching but they’re also rather likely to make you feel a bit sick and rot the metaphorical teeth of your mind. But not in games. No, aside from their …

The two purposes of a game map are to show you which direction you should be heading towards and more importantly, to indicate which area you’re yet to loot for power-ups and collectibles. But some maps are made with so much love and serve up so many with original ideas …

Game music has been a passion of ours roughly since, oh, 1985, but in the past 10 years, it’s come to mean something more. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the beepatronic music of the 8- and 16-bit periods (and the wave of chiptune artists it inspired), but the …

Perhaps not everyone got the memo. See, power-ups are meant to be a good thing. They are, by definition, supposed to power you up. As in ‘not power you down’. So why be so cruel as to program things into your game that can be collected by the player that …

Look at games! The sky. The trees. The grass. The water. All of these things look real. And games will continue to get more real-looking as technology throws us ever closer to a promised land of perfect visual fidelity. Just this week, for example, Rockstar’s LA Noire will introduce character …