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Studio Ghibli is perhaps the greatest animation house ever created. Founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1985 by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki, the studio named after the Italian word for the high-speed Mediterranean gale aimed to “blow a new wind through the anime industry”. Considering …

The Big Topic:  Persona 5’s long development yielded proper results.  Further discussion:  Living through your Switch bricking and other dead console experiences. Persona 5. It is here. A full four years after its original proposed release date, two months after the GamesRadar crew finally started playing it, and just in …

Even before its reveal, the Nintendo Switch felt like it had to be a console with a singular purpose. It was to be the machine to unify Nintendo’s split hardware platforms – the consistently barnstorming handheld wing, and the increasingly limp-footed home consoles – into a single, successful entity, that …

Picking up the Strafe demo last fall, the Quake-inspired, roguelike FPS immediately did exactly what I hoped it would, ie. delivering an instantly gratifying, kinetic killing spree with a fastness and fury to make Vin Diesel look like a slow and entirely placid sloth. Low-polygon horrors swarmed at me, demanding …

Have you binge-watched Marvel’s Iron Fist (opens in new tab) yet? No? You might want to stop reading then because I’ve picked out a bunch of hidden Marvel Easter eggs to be found in the newest Defenders series. Netflix is going into full martial arts mode with its new superhero …

In less than two years, Microsoft has done a stellar job at making dozens of Xbox 360 titles playable on the Xbox One. Whether it’s action, retro, or RPG games you’re looking for, the backwards compatibility library on the Xbox One has grown to the point where there’s bound to …

The first time I saw a tower in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (opens in new tab), I muttered worriedly under my breath. It was E3 2016, and I was watching Nintendo’s latest fantasy adventure being played, initially marvelling at how different it looked and played from …

The original Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor has a lot going for it – the rich high fantasy of Lord of the Rings, a sprawling (if somewhat barren) open world, and satisfying Assassin’s Creed-style gameplay that can swing from stealth to intense swordfighting in an instant. But by far its greatest …

Video games are stuffed to bursting with fake brands. Most are forgettable, throw-away plot devices – Evil Corp, Joe’s Italian Restaurant, Richard’s Prophylactics – but some are so believable and well-loved that they’ve entered our consciousness. They’re more than window-dressing. We buy into what they’re selling, and almost feel surprised …

Off to a weird start Launch games. Often times these are the only titles you get to play while anxiously (or bitterly) awaiting other games to come out during the months-long launch window. Some launches are more fruitful than others. If youre lucky you get genre-defining games like Halo: Combat …