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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
A couple of months and several million miles away from 2007’s procession of summer blockbuster adaptations, Stranglehold is also based on a film. Specifically it is a video…
[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…