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“My fans need me” – Super Paper Mario

For all Nintendo’s reaches to new audiences with the Wii, 2006 was not a total year zero. (For Nintendo it was Year 117, or at least Year 36…

“Top of the Swing” – Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08

The list of #1 games is a bit slow to reflect it, but the Wii was a humungous success in the UK just like the US and Japan….

“More style points” – John Woo Presents Stranglehold

A couple of months and several million miles away from 2007’s procession of summer blockbuster adaptations, Stranglehold is also based on a film. Specifically it is a video…

“I have no doubt that history will remember…” – Medal of Honor: Airborne

[For this guest post, I once again welcome back Oma Keeling! Oma is a freelance writer, artist and art historian. They run GlitchOut, a blog dedicated to altered…

“Petty morality” – Bioshock

The underwater city of Rapture is an amazing place. I tend to love when games do big things with their settings, and Bioshock really goes for it. There…

“Many uses for the Wii Remote” – Wii Play

The current UK #1 game is Horizon Forbidden West. It has now returned to the top of the chart in May and June 2022 three times. This is…

“Now, that’s a car” – Transformers: The Game

There is a central freedom to Grand Theft Auto which helped power its success and got picked up by so many of its successors. Move around a city,…

“Saving a lot of data” – Pokémon Diamond

It’s not just the DS’s touchscreen which changed the game; its clamshell form brings an additional bit of tactile magic. Open it up and a world inside comes…

“Fundamental movement” – Forza Motorsport 2

Way back when I was playing through 1995 I talked about how the way the games industry is organised, with rival console exclusives, leads to both a general…

“Even your mother would be embarrassed at your oafish moves” – Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

The game Spider-Man 3 was a continuation of a well-received series, made by a respected developer, using a movie series which was a perfect fit for the type…