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Hello, dear readers! GamesRadar has an awesome community and we love hearing from you. We love it so much, in fact, that we created a show just for you! Our Community Manager Greg Henninger is going to sit down every week and answer your burning questions. This week we get …

Yeah. We’re late. We’re very late. But there’s a good reason: we wanted to wait until we could talk about Grand Theft Auto. Let’s do this, chumps. Hosts: Hollander Cooper, Greg Henninger, Ryan Taljonick, Henry Gilbert, Lucas Sullivan, Zach BetkaQuestion of the week: What’s your favorite GTA moment? Answer to …

Game design is an iterative process, which is to say everyone rips everyone off. Don’t believe us? Play a shooter after 2007 that didn’t have Gears of War’s cover system and Call of Duty’s leveling. Other times, developers seemingly ignore amazing ideas. Like Shadow of the Colossus–the fact that more …

Bound for Glory When EarthBound came out in 1994, Nintendo’s cult RPG assembled a decade’s worth of tropes and gave them each a swift kick in the ass. Simply put, there’s nothing quite like EarthBound, and while most cite the oddball story, strange characters, and unique setting as its defining …

This week we discuss humble origins, indie crossovers, and wrasslin! Oh, and video games. Lots and lots of video games. Hosts: Hollander Cooper, Lorenzo Veloria, Ryan Taljonick, Henry Gilbert, Lucas Sullivan, Andy Hartup, Tom MagrinoQuestion of the week: What developer would you like a humble bundle from? Enter (and shoehorn …

Despite Bethesda and Arkane Studios’ repeated protests, the Dishonored developer is in fact making Prey 2, according to leaked emails obtained by Kotaku. The new Prey 2 includes none of Human Head’s open-world bounty-hunting game–it’s a clean slate pitched as a “spiritual successor to System Shock 3.” Prey 2 surfaced …

Hair today, gone tomorrow Suspension of disbelief is something that’s simply inherent to playing video games. It’s a digital fantasy, so just roll with it, people! When it comes to character creation, artists have free reign, knowing that silly things like physics and gravity have no bearing on in-game costumes …

We have a long episode this week for two reasons. We spent a really long time going over the Top 7 and getting super nostalgic for gaming’s awesome past, and we included a lengthy interview with David Jaffe. Both are worth listening to, especially if you have fond memories of …

So this one time… The flashback is a fairly standard narrative construct. In fact, it’s so frequently used that it’s become a rather dull cliche. Some games get around this by simply making the content of their flashback sequences flat-out brilliant, masking the hackneyed nature of the technique by filling …

This was a crazy week. While Nintendo and Sony hid in their bunkers, Microsoft dropped a bomb regarding the Xbox One. If you haven’t heard about it yet, then you’re in for a suprise! If you have, well, then listen to us talk about it anyway. Hosts: Hollander Cooper, Henry …