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Way back when I was playing through 1995 I talked about how the way the games industry is organised, with rival console exclusives, leads to both a general…
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…
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…
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…
The idea of defeating video game enemies and having them drop health boosts for you goes back a long way. Specifically providing those health boosts in the form…
The biggest game of 2006 and the industry tunnel vision which made space for it
At the start of Gears of War, your main character Marcus Fenix gets busted out of prison to join a desperate war against the invasion of the Locust…
There is a saying often used in football that “the league table never lies”. It doesn’t always tell the whole story, though, and often an important addition is…