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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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.  …