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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
Forza Motorsport 2 was such an accomplished version of the serious road car racing genre popularised by Gran Turismo that there wasn’t anywhere too obvious to take it…
As I first started playing Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, something unprecedented happened. I won my first match. Not just that but I won it comfortably, 3-0. As I…
There is a cutscene near the start of Uncharted 2, a flashback revealing the inciting incident for its plot, which took me by surprise. It involves lead character…
FIFA 10 has an achievement called “Real Fan” which is earned by playing the game for fifty hours. Since I played it on Xbox 360 both when it…
[For this guest post, I am happy to welcome David Caldwell to Super Chart Island for the first time! David is a nonbinary writer and artist living in…
With structural innovations missing or misfiring, there’s one thing left for Need for Speed: Shift to fall back on, and it’s there in the title.
I absolutely loved Codemasters’ early driving game breakthrough Colin McRae Rally and its first sequel. By the time Dirt 2 came out a decade or so later, I…
[Hot on the heels of The Sims 3, it’s time for another guest post from Martin!] In the early days of the pandemic, facing an indeterminate period of…
[For this guest post, I welcome back Jaylee Warren, who previous wrote about Metal Gear Solid 3. Jaylee is a queer comics writer from the Pacific Northwest. Her…
There is no getting away from the same central truth that was there in 1995 and 2005. Popularity and formats come and go, and that truth remains. Cricket is a long, slow game.