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[For this guest post, I am happy to welcome back Iain Farrell, who previously wrote about Sonic 3 and Mercenaries. You can find Iain on twitter as @iainfarrell.] If…
Many of the popular games series of the early 2000s are still with us. As I continue on to 2006 and 2007 even more of today’s yearly regulars…
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…
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:…
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun didn’t just manage to disgust the likes of me with its approach to telling history. It also got widely dismissed by fans of…
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