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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
Contemporary reviews of Conflict: Vietnam mention its position as part of a wave of games based on the Vietnam war, alongside Vietcong: Purple Haze and Shellshock: Nam ‘67,…
I’ve talked previously about 2004’s status as a year of sequels, when all the most successful games were built on established franchises. None were more established than this…
One of my favourite musical tricks is the prominent absence, with my favourite demonstration in the song “One More Night” by Canadian indie band Stars. It starts with…
[For a guest post I am once again pleased to hand over to excellent writer and Spider-Man fan Shaun Musgrave, who last appeared here writing about Onimusha. Shaun…
By 2004, the scene for British developers making third-person driving/shooting gangster games in vastly detailed cities was increasingly crowded. Rockstar’s 3D Grand Theft Auto games took the original…
[For this guest post, I am delighted to welcome Oma Keeling for the first time! Oma is a freelance writer, artist and art historian. They run GlitchOut, a…
Hitman: Contracts is another oddity in the year of sequels. I’m going to be playing plenty of remasters of older games as I move towards the present day,…
Codemasters, Xbox, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 24 April 2004
Ubisoft, Xbox, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 27 March 2004
EA, PlayStation 2, #1 in UK combined formats chart for week ending 28 February 2004