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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
Going right back to Way of the Tiger, Barbarian II, Sensible World of Soccer, there has been a lot of opportunity in taking already successful games genres and…
I can see where the wow factor would have come from in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. In 2001, when Grand Theft Auto III was achieving mind-blowing…
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…
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