Theories are like opinions, and opinions are like… well. What I mean is that everyone has one, and they’re all over the Internet. What fan theory do you love? What “mind-blowing” theories have ever actually blown your mind? We’ve rounded up the ones that’ll completely change how you see a …
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Sympathy for the devil? Not all video game antagonists are evil. Some bad guys have reasons for their behaviour so well-considered that they become massively sympathetic. Some even go as far as to make you feel like the real villain for stopping them in the first place. And in some …
Read More »7 games where the bad guys actually win
The good guys don’t always win. Although video games often represent an idealised version of life, where good triumphs over evil and everyone ends up happy, there are several notable examples where the bad guys definitely ‘win’. I’m not talking about possible scenarios where the baddos come out on top–these …
Read More »GR+ Live: An early look at Quantum Break on Xbox One
After three years of teases and trailers, one of the first major Xbox One games ever revealed is finished. Remedy, the studio behind Max Payne and Alan Wake, has turned in yet another fascinatingly idiosyncratic spin on storytelling and shooters. How does this bizarre blending of time-manipulation, video game gunplay, …
Read More »GR+ Live: Meet the writer of Senran Kagura Estival Versus on PS4
Senran Kagura is an unlikely series. What looks on the surface like the most lascivious sort of anime game hides an involved story beneath its pervy veneer. A fair description: it’s about breasts, ninjas, interpersonal relationships, gender dysmorphia, gender identity, and friendship. Seriously. It’s that dynamic that’s earned the series …
Read More »Street Fighter 1987 – 2016: The Evolution of Ryu
25 years after Street Fighter 2 changed video games forever, the world warriors have returned on PlayStation 4 and PC in Street Fighter. Throughout the decades, the spinoffs, the tournaments, and bizarre subtitles, there’s been one constant throughout: Ryu. Vote for Street Fighter 5 in the Best Multiplayer Game, Competitive …
Read More »GR+ Live: Come talk to Sony about Gravity Rush, PS4s new darling
Gravity Rush is precisely the sort of game that develops a rabid cult following, the sort of game that launches a few dozen Tumblrs and disappears into obscurity because it’s trapped on a failed platform. Sony has freed Gravity Rush from its PS Vita chains and given it new, gorgeous …
Read More »GR+ Live: Help us solve rage inducing puzzles in The Witness
The Witness, Jonathan Blow’s years in the making follow up to Braid, is finally out on PlayStation 4. It already drove one of GamesRadar’s staff members madness. With your help, though, we’ll survive its mad wiles. Come help us try to solve its insane puzzles at 4:30PM ET/1:30PM PT right …
Read More »GR+ Live: Meet the mind behind Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi
Craig Rundels has been a working artist in video games for 20 years. Today he makes guitars and works for Sperasoft, a company providing art and support on games like Dragon Age and FIFA. Back in the day, though, Rundels was the lead artist and designer on the most infamous …
Read More »Rainbow Road: the deadly ribbon that has entranced generations of racers
Humans have long seen rainbows as signifiers of promise, be it a fabled pot of treasure to claim, the cessation of Biblical-scale ecological cleansing, a bridge to other worlds, or simply that the sun will be waiting when the rain finally clears. After 23 years and eight console games, the …
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