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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
Many of the popular games series of the early 2000s are still with us. As I continue on to 2006 and 2007 even more of today’s yearly regulars…
Sometimes a year in the name is just a year in the name. In 2005 it was not long until Pro Evolution Soccer would make the switch to…
Any questions about the rapid speed of the release this sequel are answered by the bubble on the back of the box proclaiming it the follow-up to the…
[For this guest post I welcome back Richard Moss, who previously wrote about Sonic Drift. Richard is creator of the documentary podcast The Life & Times of Video…
The ‘Football’ is gone from the title, as well as the 20: not just the millennium being old hat but a statement of confidence in the brand. What’s…
As a child, I played with a lot of toy cars. I gave many of them names, but it was mostly as a way of distinguishing between them…
The high sales of boxed copies of expansion packs for The Sims 2 mark a particular transition period for the industry. The success of The Sims and its…
My third Ubisoft game has several things in common with the first two, some differences, and a lot that points towards both the future and how Ubisoft ended…
I remember the massive British advertising push for the PlayStation Portable in the year following its launch. I was taking the tube every day and the distinctive adverts…
Talk about picking your moment. The back of the box of Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 quotes the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine calling it “the best cricket game…