Hello and welcome to 2021’s GamesRadar Hardware Awards. While the story in gaming hardware this year has been dominated by strangled supply chains, mass stock shortages, and scalpers taking advantage of an inflated resellers market, there have been some absolute gems released over the past year. Every corner of the …
Read More »The secret to Grand Theft Autos success? “The point was not the controversy, it was the empowerment”
When developer DMA Design launched Grand Theft Auto in 1997, it caused one hell of a shit storm. The top-down crime simulator that portrayed low-res sprites stealing cars and murdering police officers hit the tabloid news headlines like a bullet. It was too real, despite not really looking real at …
Read More »Is it just me, or is Transformers: The Movie the franchises peak?
It shouldn’t have worked. In the early ’80s, toy giant Hasbro launched their “robots in disguise” via a triple threat of comics, a TV series and action figures. The leap to the big screen in 1986 was simply the next step in a marketing master plan. Likewise, The Transformers: The …
Read More »FIFA 22 is at its best when played as an RPG in Career Mode
FIFA 22 may have more than 700 teams, but the only one I care about is unique to my game. Thanks to the Create-A-Club section of Career Mode, I can finally go off on a footballing journey that offers the sort of stakes and intrigue you might expect from a …
Read More »How a YA teen Joker pitch turned into a Hannibal-esque take on the Harley Quinn / Joker dynamic
We often see the Joker through the eyes of superheroes, but what does he look like from the perspective of a real-life crime expert, like an FBI profiler? Less superhero, more Hannibal? That recently happened in a DC mature-readers series called Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (opens in new tab). And it …
Read More »Metroid Dread makes power suits sexy and robots terrifying again
After 35 years the Nintendo classic is more beautiful and brutal than ever. Metroid Dread brings a new polish to the 2D shooter’s killer combo of platforming and gunplay, and you couldn’t pick a better game to show off the new screen of the Nintendo Switch OLED. My hands-on with …
Read More »David Chase talks Sopranos, Many Saints of Newark, and the TV show that gives him hope for the future
David Chase has been telling stories for a few decades now. The writer, director, and producer won his first Emmy in 1978 for The Rockford Files, a detective drama that he wrote 16 episodes for. Even before then, just after leaving film school and heading to Hollywood, Chase had an …
Read More »Who killed the Scarlet Witch? Looking at the key suspects after X-Men: Trial of Magneto #2
Who killed Wanda Maximoff (AKA the Scarlet Witch)? That’s core question every X-Fan and Marvel comics’ character is asking after the shocking events of X-Factor #10 (opens in new tab), leading into the current X-Men event The Trial of Magneto. Spoilers ahead for Trial of Magneto #1 and 2. (Image …
Read More »Have you tried… being a hipster photographer in monochrome delight Toem?
Wandering around in a single, wet, slightly stinky sock looking for ants to photograph isn’t how I expected Toem to lure me in, but here we are. This hand-drawn, monochrome adventure from Swedish developer Something We Made is a game where you solve puzzles with your camera. It’s not complicated …
Read More »Y: The Last Man: Inside the post-apocalyptic series with Ben Schnetzer, Ashley Romans, and Eliza Clark
“New York City runs out of food in three days if it doesn’t get deliveries,” Eliza Clark says. We’re talking about the catastrophe at the center of the showrunner’s new series, Y: The Last Man, which sees a mysterious event wipe out every creature on Earth with a Y chromosome. …
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