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Naughty Bear is back to enact his revenge on the residents of Paradise Island. His fellow teddy bears have shunned him and moved to a tropical island without giving Naughty Bear an invitation. So, how is Naughty going to ratify this injustice? Why, go on a massive killing spree, of …

(opens in new tab) Everyone knows about Penny Arcade–the gaming webcomic that is somewhat responsible for the legitimacy of gaming webcomics–but for as big and important as Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik’s online comic is, it’s really their convention that has, more recently, become an astounding success. Starting in 2004 …

Recently Hideki Kamiya, exec at critical darling Platinum Games and director of Okami (opens in new tab), made news when talking about Sony’s PlayStation All-Star Battle Royale (opens in new tab). To quote Kamiya (opens in new tab), “It’s just a rip-off.” And as someone who has given over roughly …

The celebrated author of the No Man’s World series talks to Stephen Jewell about sci-fi, soldiers and sequels (opens in new tab) Pat Kelleher tells SFX about transporting World War One battalion The Pennine Fusiliers to a harsh alien planet in Abaddon’s No Man’s World series. SFX : In the …

Guild Wars 2’s servers go live next Tuesday for the masses (or on Saturday, if you’ve pre-ordered), giving gamers a new virtual world to run around and kill stuff in. We’ll be covering the game extensively in the weeks following the launch with review journals, videos, opinions, and all of …

We’re back! Told you so. And there you were thinking we had run away. Well, Cundy returned from holiday and I am back from Gamescom in Cologne, Germany where I saw loads of things. You’d think I’d be able to get a word in edgeways this time, wouldn’t you? Yeah, …

So you bought an Xbox 360. Congratulations, you’ve just contributed to Microsoft’s slow, yet inevitable campaign toward world domination. You’ve also secured yourself a state-of-the art gaming rig capable of innumerable hours of solo and multiplayer fun. Not a bad trade-off. What now? Well, you could crack into the exclusive …

Never before have we played an RTS where our troops could die of hypothermia. Then we got hands-on time with Company of Heroes 2. We’ve sung the praises of THQ and Relic Entertainment’s World War II strategy game in previous Company of Heroes 2 previews, but this was our first …

Mario basically invented sidescrollers. Sonic brought the genre into the 90s. of these iconic mascots have been bitter rivals since the console wars of the early 1990s, when Sega and Nintendo were exchanging heated ad campaigns, and schoolyards were divided over which character was the best. Recently both characters have …

2012 marks the 50th anniversary of James Bond on the big screen. To celebrate, SFX’s Nick Setchfield revisits each and every 007 adventure in a week by week countdown to Skyfall … MISSION 13: OCTOPUSSY (1983) INDIAN SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER Roger Moore suffered for his art on Octopussy . The imperishably …