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 …

When we reviewed Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 we singled out the lack of single player content as a problem. The free Heralds and Heroes DLC does a great job remedying that issue though, with a meaty new game mode that adds some great incentives to keep playing. It also …

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 …

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, …

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

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

With the new trailer for Metal Gear Solid: Rising revealing that the game is now called Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and that it’s being made by Platinum Games (Bayonetta, Vanquish) and not Kojima Productions, there are a lot of Metal Gear fans feeling confused. And in some cases, irritated. Obviously …