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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
[For this guest post, I once again welcome back Oma Keeling! Oma is a freelance writer, artist and art historian. They run GlitchOut, a blog dedicated to altered…
The underwater city of Rapture is an amazing place. I tend to love when games do big things with their settings, and Bioshock really goes for it. There…
The current UK #1 game is Horizon Forbidden West. It has now returned to the top of the chart in May and June 2022 three times. This is…
There is a central freedom to Grand Theft Auto which helped power its success and got picked up by so many of its successors. Move around a city,…
It’s not just the DS’s touchscreen which changed the game; its clamshell form brings an additional bit of tactile magic. Open it up and a world inside comes…
Way back when I was playing through 1995 I talked about how the way the games industry is organised, with rival console exclusives, leads to both a general…
The game Spider-Man 3 was a continuation of a well-received series, made by a respected developer, using a movie series which was a perfect fit for the type…
Even as five different games based on new films topped the charts in 2007, Spider-Man 3 stands well apart from the others. It was the only one to…
[After another bit of a gap from guest posts, I’m very happy to introduce one again! I’m once more welcoming David C James, whose previous posts here include State…
Nintendo’s casual revolution didn’t just start with Wii Sports. Over in the slightly less fraught handheld gaming arena, the Nintendo DS had launched the best part of two…