It’s PlayStation Vita launch day in Japan. As we post this, our connection is picking up Vitas and memory cards for us. We’ve already got our shortlist of games secured and confirmed. And we’re coming in over the weekend to shoot some special videos for you. So, as we wait …

Console game development takes time, but action-platformer The Kore Game: Outvasion From Inner Earth has taken more than most. In the works for nearly a decade and having passed through the hands of three publishers and three developers, it has the potential to be absurdly polished or a colossal dud. …

Short and sweet this week, but with a very festive sci-fi feel

High Horse is a rotating opinion column in which GamesRadar editors and guest writers are invited to express their personal thoughts on games, the people who play them and the industry at large. This is going to sound horribly arrogant, but bear with me: Games rarely challenge me intellectually. Wow, …

More viral goodness to bring you this morning from The Dark Knight Rises , with the release of a new Bane t-shirt, and more interestingly, a map of Gotham listing various “strike zones”. The new info comes courtesy of Superhero Hype , who were sent a package containing a t-shirt …

Five years ago, Jaws Unleashed gave us a bloody, open-world shark simulator that, in spite of being almost uniformly mediocre, nevertheless redeemed itself by taking the aging movie shark to inspiring heights of absurdity. As the nominal sequel to Unleashed, it’s reasonable to assume that Jaws: Ultimate Predator (also released …

Natalie Portman is reportedly most displeased at the exit of Patty Jenkins from superhero sequel Thor 2 earlier this month. Monster director Jenkins had been announced as the replacement for Kenneth Branagh, after Branagh had turned down the opportunity to return. It was an appointment that would have made Jenkins …

It’s hard not to have some emotional response to Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Among a big crop of trailers debuting at last weekend’s Video Game Awards, this revamped spin-off to the blockbuster series got people talking, which you may have noticed this week (opens in new tab). We also got …

Twisted Pixel has announced an encore performance for The Gunstringer in the form of REAL BIG SHOOTIN’; an all-caps, gun totin’, jet-packin’, shooting gallery add-on slated to mosey into the Xbox LIVE Marketplace tomorrow. REAL BIG SHOOTIN’ will challenge players to blast their way to Mad Dog McDog over four …

Jaws isn’t a complicated character. He’s a big, hokey shark who lives in a 36-year-old movie franchise, lurks in dark water and eats people in gruesome ways. When translated into videogames, however, Jaws continually winds up in ridiculous situations, pitted against evil corporations, overconfident scuba divers and giant undersea monsters. …