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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
First-person shooters took over as one of the leading genres of games in the UK in the early 2000s. This accelerated as part of the Xbox 360’s success,…
After Modern Warfare’s breakthrough success with blockbuster emotional manipulation, the stakes of similar games rapidly escalated. When Infinity Ward themselves needed to up the ante for Modern Warfare…
Way back in 1985, Rare predecessors Ultimate scored two UK #1s in quick succession by following up the isometric 3D Knight Lore with Alien 8. The two games…
Pokémon White is the first new Pokémon game I’m playing which wasn’t for a new system as well. Well, sort of. Yellow, Platinum and Soulsilver could fit the…
After a deflating twist away from the possibility of a new outlook, what follows is pretty much Killzone 2 again…
Perhaps Eden Games were right to suspect that great driving on a big map wasn’t enough on its own to stand out. That’s about where the right decisions there end…
Dead Space 2 is not actually the most blood-flecked #1 game of early 2011, but makes up for it with a whole line in stomping on corpses
The closer I move towards the present day, the more out of reach much of the history gets. Online elements became a central feature of more games, and barely more than a decade later the servers are shut down and they’re gone.
At least one primary school class ended a day this week by dancing along to a video of Just Dance 4’s version of “Gangnam Style”
