Tag Archives: Turbografx

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 …

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GR+ Live: Meet the creator of Shadow Complex Remastered

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 …

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GR+ Live: Meet the makers of Salt & Sanctuary for PS4

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 …

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GR+ Live: Tell us how to play Heavy Rain on PS4

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 …

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GR+ Live: Watch us conquer the Wii Us most unlikely exclusive

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 …

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Ping from the Radar – Letter from the Editor

Dear readers, It’s been a few months since we first joined forces with Total Film and SFX to bring you TV and movie news and now it’s time for our next phase! We’ve relaunched our news channel and we’re bringing gaming brands that you may already know and love like …

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Blockbusters curious collection of exclusive games

Renter beware. Before Blockbuster came to represent the death of the brick and mortar video game rental business, it was a blue-and-gold juggernaut whose reached extended from coast to coast. In its prime, Blockbuster’s influence was so great that it actually began requisitioning video games to be released exclusively in …

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The worst hair styles in Final Fantasy

Hairdo? More like Hair don’t. Some of the most interesting hairstyles in gaming sprang from the Final Fantasy series’ love for inexplicable spikes and unnatural shades. Here’s our tribute to a few of the most feathery, fluttery, physics-defying contraptions that Square Enix ever had the nerve to call “hair”.

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