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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…
It started early on in my first season in charge of Arsenal, while the fans were still casting aspersions about my lack of experience. We played Reading, and…
There is a 2019 episode of the BBC’s preschool maths show Numberblocks called Block Star. It teaches the different ways of dividing 12 by essentially having the anthropomorphic…
The success of Liberty City Stories reinforced a clear message – people badly wanted more Grand Theft Auto on their consoles, and it didn’t matter if it wasn’t…
I can see where the wow factor would have come from in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. In 2001, when Grand Theft Auto III was achieving mind-blowing…
IO Interactive made a real attempt to make Hitman: Blood Money more approachable than its predecessors. The whole control scheme is rehashed, with context-sensitive buttons replacing the PC-feeling…