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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
In games, as with many other media with any kind of sequel or follow-up, a sequel’s initial commercial performance is generally a reflection of its predecessor as much…
Playing through the UK’s chart-topping games of the PlayStation era cemented a link in my mind between two of the biggest of them. Metal Gear Solid and Final…
[It’s guest post time again! This one is written by Martin F, who has previously written here about Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri and Blue Sphere among others] After…
On release, Grand Theft Auto IV sold nearly a million copies in the UK in five days, making it the fastest-selling game here ever. That was no surprise….
The Wii and Wii Sports were a magic trick. Waving a remote around and using a “sensor bar” which could be replaced by two candles, you could point…
In the same way as it was a struggle to get to the historic charts this blog is built on, getting to any kind of accurate historic UK…
There was a whole decade across the ‘90s and ‘00s in which console gaming in the UK, at least in terms of a machine to connect to your…
Just because Ubisoft had found a new idea to give them a big breakthrough, it didn’t mean that they weren’t going to carry on with what already worked…
From Syndicate to Conflict: Desert Storm to Gears of War, there has been a tendency for squad-based shooting games to settle on four as the optimal size of…
One thing that the Burnout series’s introductory radio station Crash FM provides is plenty of soundbites to neatly sum up its games. Burnout Revenge’s “it’s a car-crash-car world”…
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