Everyone expected Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 to take the UK Christmas number one – but it didn’t. In fact, it didn’t really ‘win’ Christmas at all, except perhaps for beating down cheeky upstart Battlefield 3 in convincing fashion in its own personal battle. Instead, thanks to some impressive …
Read More »GamesRadar editors (personal) Games of the Year 2011
Every December, we close out our year of coverage with our officially annual Platinum Chalice awards, choosing our Game of the Year and doling out accolades to the best games of the past 12 months. We won’t actually hand those out until next Friday, though; in the meantime, we’ve decided …
Read More »Raptr Report pits Skyrim against MW3 for players love
Ever-ready to cut through critical bias and drummed-up presale data, Raptr has released its Raptr Report for 2011, with data on which games commanded the most player attention. The report breaks the year’s releases down into categories, calculating total playtime by Raptr’s 10+ million users over launch month, per-player launch-week …
Read More »TalkRadar UK Episode 96 – Sentient Tanks
TalkRadar UK Fan Art Do you want to win a GamesRadar branded 1GBUSB stick that contains behind the scenes snaps of the GR UK team? Of course you do! Create some fan art, put ithereand for your first appearance we’ll give you the prize. Just e-mail gamesradar@futurenet.com with your name …
Read More »E3 2011: FIFA Soccer 12 preview – impactful hands-on collides players, blows minds
During last week’s Pre-E3 press event in Santa Monica, developer EA Canada surprised us in their self-deprecating attitude towards last year’s stellarFIFA 11 (opens in new tab), which felt akin to our favorite band telling us the album we’ve been listening to all year, in fact, sucked. What we gamers …
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