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A British history of popular video games, told one sales chart #1 at a time
On the unique folly of L.A. Noire, with reference to Ace Attorney, Mad Men, and the allure and decay of beautiful facades
Trying and failing to find my into one of the most modern-feeling games yet
The perfect blend of magic and logistics, and how to come back and do it all over again but bigger
Zumba Fitness, even more obviously non-functional than Just Dance, spent fourteen weeks as the UK’s #1 game
First-person shooters took over as one of the leading genres of games in the UK in the early 2000s. This accelerated as part of the Xbox 360’s success,…
After Modern Warfare’s breakthrough success with blockbuster emotional manipulation, the stakes of similar games rapidly escalated. When Infinity Ward themselves needed to up the ante for Modern Warfare…
Way back in 1985, Rare predecessors Ultimate scored two UK #1s in quick succession by following up the isometric 3D Knight Lore with Alien 8. The two games…
Pokémon White is the first new Pokémon game I’m playing which wasn’t for a new system as well. Well, sort of. Yellow, Platinum and Soulsilver could fit the…
After a deflating twist away from the possibility of a new outlook, what follows is pretty much Killzone 2 again…
Perhaps Eden Games were right to suspect that great driving on a big map wasn’t enough on its own to stand out. That’s about where the right decisions there end…