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There is a central freedom to Grand Theft Auto which helped power its success and got picked up by so many of its successors. Move around a city,…
It’s not just the DS’s touchscreen which changed the game; its clamshell form brings an additional bit of tactile magic. Open it up and a world inside comes…
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