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Any questions about the rapid speed of the release this sequel are answered by the bubble on the back of the box proclaiming it the follow-up to the…
[For this guest post I welcome back Richard Moss, who previously wrote about Sonic Drift. Richard is creator of the documentary podcast The Life & Times of Video…
The ‘Football’ is gone from the title, as well as the 20: not just the millennium being old hat but a statement of confidence in the brand. What’s…
As a child, I played with a lot of toy cars. I gave many of them names, but it was mostly as a way of distinguishing between them…
The high sales of boxed copies of expansion packs for The Sims 2 mark a particular transition period for the industry. The success of The Sims and its…
My third Ubisoft game has several things in common with the first two, some differences, and a lot that points towards both the future and how Ubisoft ended…
I remember the massive British advertising push for the PlayStation Portable in the year following its launch. I was taking the tube every day and the distinctive adverts…
Talk about picking your moment. The back of the box of Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 quotes the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine calling it “the best cricket game…
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:…
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