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“Caution when rejoining race” – F1 2010

On 18 March 2007, Lewis Hamilton, British racing driver and childhood fan of Ayrton Senna’s Super Monaco GP II on the Sega Mega Drive, started his first Formula…

“Better get going, Six” – Halo: Reach

Spotify and fellow music streaming services have killed the Greatest Hits album. People can listen to a group’s most famous songs together whenever they like; why would they…

“It ain’t like you’re qualified for anything else” – Mafia II

As Rockstar successfully expanded out its open world Grand Theft Auto formula to new settings, they were far from alone. Such was the boom for the genre around…

“It’s fucked” – Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days

Before reaching this point in 2010’s journey, there was only one thing I knew about Kane & Lynch. It was that in 2007 the video game website Gamespot…

“Fought on dozens of worlds” – StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

My experience with real-time strategy games is largely limited to the Command & Conquer series — and limited further still to my encounters with those through this blog….

“We’re in the money” – Dance on Broadway

Of Just Dance, I said “Nothing to top the charts has looked so barebones a proof of concept since the days of PS1 3D and Cool Boarders, and…

“Playtime” – Toy Story 3

The UK’s Official Charts Company — the fact they don’t need to have “music” in the name is indicative — publishes many different singles charts each week. There’s…

“Mega ultra power dosing” – Crackdown 2

Ponder the orb. All around in Crackdown 2, as in the original game, there are agility orbs which permanently boost your powers when collected. Collect them and you…

“Bowser on Ice” – Super Mario Galaxy 2

Super Mario Sunshine showed the problems that can come up when making a Mario game about something. Delfino Isle proved an awkward halfway house between cohesion and freedom….

“Sweet, peace-loving people with a love of social justice” – Red Dead Redemption

Grand Theft Auto IV continued Rockstar’s run of world-beating success, but in the costly new era of HD game development they weren’t going to be able to follow…