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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 …

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 …

Here’s the thing about Mega Man: getting it right is not easy. Over the more than three dozen Mega Man games made over the past thirty years, most of them aren’t that great. The dizzying highs of Mega Man 3 and Mega Man X are often paired with ghastly lows …

When it comes to fantasy-based videogames, it’s remarkable how often the cosmic balance hangs not on complex environmental and geopolitical forces in conflict – though these may be present as window dressing – but on the fate of one magical MacGuffin. It could be an orb, a gem or an …

A moment in a game has hit you hard, like when John Marston steps out of the barn for the last time in Red Dead Redemption, or you’re not fast enough to save Alyx from the business end of a hunter’s claw in Half-Life 2. It’s an emotional gut-punch that …

As a fan of Transformers I’ve always dreamed of having a giant robot head on my wall. Ok, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but the Optimus Prime wall lamp from BigBadToyStore is one of those things that has both function and style. It is mildly disappointing that the head isn’t to …

Pete Smith, an executive producer working with external studios at Sony, knows a thing or two about videogame pitches: he’s sat through hundreds. His talk at Develop Conference was, it seems, not only designed to help developers, but also to make his life a little easier: he opened, with welcome …

From crap to GOTY Tell me if this sounds familiar: you’ve just picked up a brand new console on launch day, you’ve read all the reviews, and despite all of your better instincts, you went ahead and grabbed Perfect Dark Zero anyway. Or how about this: it’s the dead of …

Taking ’em to school If you’ve ever poked around your trophy collection in the Super Smash Bros. games, you’ve probably noticed that they’re an absolute treasure trove of nostalgic knowledge. Because Nintendo’s premier fighting franchise is a mash-up of all its mascots, be they big or small, no reference is …

Sony is taking an intriguing step back toward social gaming with PS4 Share Play. The new feature, long-touted and finally delivered in today’s 2.0 system update (opens in new tab), gives players an internet-enabled mechanism to do what they’ve done ever since the first kid on the block got an …