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Welcome to the city, there are spoilers here “There is always a lighthouse, there’s always a man, there’s always a city.” According to BioShock Infinite, these are the constants in an infinite universe of variables. In every world the cycle will repeat in one form or another, and there will …

Nintendo just announced a brand new Legend of Zelda for 3DS (opens in new tab), and any new Zelda info makes us more than a little nostalgic. So we dusted off our NES and plugged in the original Legend of Zelda to test our skills. GamesRadar editors Henry and Cooper …

This week was light for reviews, but heavy on news worth blabbing about. Hear us talk about an always-online Xbox 360 (and a currently offline Microsoft employee), as well as the new Batman game, which we’re hoping will give us ample opportunities to punch people in the head. Hosts: Hollander …

As you may have heard LucasArts is no more (opens in new tab), and we’re celebrating it’s passing by creating a Jedi funeral pyre in this week’s RadarPlays Retro. We plugged in a favorite from our childhood, Super Return of the Jedi, and found out it was way harder than …

What is your gaming age? Gaming is one of the worlds most popular hobbies. It spans every age generation, caters to almost every taste, and cares little for race and gender issues. In one house a man plays Grand Theft Auto (opens in new tab) (psst, GTA 5 is coming …

This week we tried to play SimCity, played the new God of War: Ascension, and we also talked about the incredible exci–SERVER CRASH. Hosts:Hollander Cooper, Greg Henninger, Lucas Sullivan, Henry Gilbert Question of the week:What’s the most problematic launch you’ve been a part of? Answer to win a free game! …

Obsidian wants to make another Star Wars RPG. The developer behind Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II told Rock, Paper, Shotgun it piqued LucasArts’ interest with the idea before the publisher and its parent company were bought up by Disney. “We pitched a between-Episode III and Episode IV …

UPDATE: IGN confirms all 35 Crytek USA developers are former Vigil Games employees. The original story follows. Pie-in-the-sky dreams, like Platinum Games buying up the Darksiders license and hiring some of its lead developers from Vigil Games, are well and good. But they don’t mean a lot for the majority …

U.S. President Barack Obama today called for government research into the effects violent video games may have on children. Obama’s moves for tighter gun control regulations and renewed research were informed by Vice President Joe Biden’s task force, which spoke with several game industry executives last week. “Congress will fund …

Children playing violent video games has re-emerged as a national topic of scrutiny since the Newtown, Conn. shooting which left 28 dead. Now, the nearby town of Southington says it hopes to encourage conversation between parents and kids by offering an exchange program to collect and destroy the games on …