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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
When Shrek went from ‘the gulag’, in which Dreamworks staff were exiled, to a huge success, it proved the launchpad for a very successful run of Dreamworks computer…
I’ve been through many examples of games rushed out for financial reasons, with varying levels of disaster as a result. Juiced is a rarer case of the opposite:…
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun didn’t just manage to disgust the likes of me with its approach to telling history. It also got widely dismissed by fans of…
When I covered The Phantom Menace back in the seemingly Peak Star Wars time of 1999, I ended by commenting on how the game, or rather the film,…
[For the latest guest post, I’m happy to hand over once again to Alexander Sigsworth, who you can find blogging at alexsigsworth.wordpress.com and who most recently wrote about…
The racing games of the PS2 era make for a great illustration of convergence at work, even if 2005 was relatively early days in game genre homogenisation. Rockstar’s…
Trying directly to score goals is not always the way to go in FIFA Street’s 4v4 street football matches. Keep the ball away from your opponents with enough…
“Gran Turismo 4 (GT4) marks the first and only time I have ever been told off in a shop…”
[For this guest post, I am delighted to welcome Jaylee Warren for the first time. Jaylee is a queer comics writer from the Pacific Northwest. Her work focuses…
[For this guest post, I am welcoming back Iain Farrell, who previously wrote about Sonic 3. You can find Iain on twitter as @iainfarrell.] Two things spring to mind…