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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
IO Interactive made a real attempt to make Hitman: Blood Money more approachable than its predecessors. The whole control scheme is rehashed, with context-sensitive buttons replacing the PC-feeling…
For all of the attendant pomp and ceremony, the World Cup is just a bunch of football matches, right? That’s the approach EA Sports relied on, with FIFA…
If the success of Shadow of the Colossus was the perfect proof-of-concept for games as award-season movie, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend is a good match for a…
In the mid-00’s, we were fully in the phase of others working out what they could learn from the success of Grand Theft Auto. Some of this came…
I had saved the town of Kvatch from falling completely to the demons of Doom-world (alright, ‘Oblivion’), but it wasn’t that simple. Death and damage had already been…
In my post on FIFA Street, I talked about MC Harvey’s performance in the game, doing ”quadruple service as commentator, hypeman, provider of advice, and stand-in for the…
For all of Medal of Honor’s massive success for a couple of years, and the phenomenon of Halo, in early 2006 we still hadn’t quite reached peak First…
The Chart-track chart commentaries I have been putting at the end of each post tend not to get involved in matters of quality. From Juiced to Grand Theft…
I remember the first time I saw an HD game. It was after the PS3’s launch in 2007 and it was someone playing Motorstorm on a big screen…
[To finish off 2005, I welcome back Agnes Forrester, who you can find on twitter as @cartridgepink. Agnes previously wrote about A Bug’s Life and Sonic Labyrinth. Thanks…