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By 2010 it was a long-established idea in games to reward progress with a bit of story cutscene. Uncharted 2 the previous year had reached an advance in…
One thing that this project has kept on showing is that there is never just one story happening in games at any given time. When movie action games…
Bioshock had big ideas of overturning standard approaches to video game storytelling, questioning philosophies, the horrors humanity can fall to, and the nature of free will. It even…
When Bioware struck out from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic with their own space opera RPG setting in Mass Effect, they planned for it to be…
Just Dance marks a big inflection point in the story of the Wii and the charts. In its first three years, from the end of 2006 to the…
This January, I ended up going to three different child-oriented stage shows involving puppets in the space of four weeks. Fortuitously, we saw them in ascending order of…
For this guest post I am happy to welcome my friend Daisy Letourneur, who you can find on twitter at @DaisyLetourneur. Searching for Wii Fit Plus reviews, Google…
Like other people’s dreams or AI outputs, hearing other people’s Football Manager stories can be a bit of an awkward bore. Not always, though. Brian Phillips’s creative series…
Forza Motorsport 2 was such an accomplished version of the serious road car racing genre popularised by Gran Turismo that there wasn’t anywhere too obvious to take it…
As I first started playing Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, something unprecedented happened. I won my first match. Not just that but I won it comfortably, 3-0. As I…