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If you play games long enough, you start to notice a lot of similarities. “Hey, these games sure have a lot of chest-high walls.” “Wow, there sure are lots of games with zombies.” And so on. One thing you’ll also begin to notice is how many video game characters share …

Persona 5 (opens in new tab) has style. It’s something I knew going in, having played the previous two entries in the series and seen various trailers and screenshots for the new one out of Japan. But seeing is one thing; I actually got to play a brief snippet of …

Persona 5 (opens in new tab) is breaking its Valentine’s date with fans outside of Japan. Atlus announced today that it’s delaying the game to April 4, 2017, a little less than two months after its former February 14, 2017 release date. It’s a heartbreaker for Western fans who have …

There’s this tiny blink-and-you’ll-miss-it town you’ll drive through during your first couple of hours with Final Fantasy 15 (opens in new tab). After fixing up your car, your mechanic Cindy will ask if you could do her a solid and drop something off at the run-down (I’m sure the owner …

On August 23rd, 1991 the people of the United States started playing with power. Super power. The Super Nintendo launch brought the house of Mario into the world of 16-bit gaming. Super NES launch games like Super Mario World, F-Zero, Pilotwings, Gradius 3, and SimCity presaged an astoundingly fruitful five …

Alright, so two things: 1) those Pokemon Go players who claimed they got an Articuno (opens in new tab) were telling the truth (opens in new tab), at least about having the Pokemon and 2) they don’t have them any more. Developer Niantic Labs told IGN (opens in new tab) …

If you’ve ever wasted a dozen Poke Balls on a junky little Zubat that just refused to stay still in Pokemon Go (opens in new tab), you will want to watch this video. YouTuber SinaCXVII has put together a quick guide for their patent-pending “SinaThrow” which will help you mop …

I realised how much I adore Skyrim (opens in new tab) the same moment you probably did. The trailer for the Special Edition, revealed on Sunday at Bethesda’s E3 conference, showed a stony path in the PS3 edition, before wiping to the ethereal PS4 remake. The music hit, dragging me …

The Outsider: He’s here to judge you. Here’s here to judge gaming’s sacred cows. And he’s brought his bolt gun. His views do not necessarily represent those of the GamesRadar+ team… and by that we mean ‘definitely’. So it’s my job, as somebody outside the bubble of gaming, to bring …

What’s the nerdiest piece of merchandise you own? For me, I’ve got a $250/£180 Lego version of the Tumbler from the Dark Knight that sits on my dining table, and every time someone vaguely important comes round to mine, I empty out a drawer where I can hide the damned …