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Even as five different games based on new films topped the charts in 2007, Spider-Man 3 stands well apart from the others. It was the only one to…
[After another bit of a gap from guest posts, I’m very happy to introduce one again! I’m once more welcoming David C James, whose previous posts here include State…
Nintendo’s casual revolution didn’t just start with Wii Sports. Over in the slightly less fraught handheld gaming arena, the Nintendo DS had launched the best part of two…
In the early 2000s, games based on specific movies were becoming a much less regular presence at the top of the charts, with a couple of serial exceptions….
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature” said Brian Eno in the mid-’90s, somewhere around the time…
In March 2007, the PS3 made it to the UK. Even with an eye-watering retail price of £425, it was an immediate success. 165,000 PS3s sold outdid any…
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is Rockstar’s second Grand Theft Auto game to go from a PSP game to a better-selling budget PS2 game. In many ways…
It was apparent by the beginning of 2007 that the Xbox 360, with its premium online gaming, its HD graphics and its early run clear of competition, was…
In 2001, Final Fantasy IX arrived in the UK as one of the final popular PS1 exclusives and did so as a love letter to the past of…
There was a moment about forty minutes into the tutorial of war strategy game Battlestations: Midway — about forty minutes into the tutorial — when it was teaching…