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[It’s guest post time again! This one is written by Martin F, who has previously written here about Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri and Blue Sphere among others] After…
On release, Grand Theft Auto IV sold nearly a million copies in the UK in five days, making it the fastest-selling game here ever. That was no surprise….
The Wii and Wii Sports were a magic trick. Waving a remote around and using a “sensor bar” which could be replaced by two candles, you could point…
In the same way as it was a struggle to get to the historic charts this blog is built on, getting to any kind of accurate historic UK…
More Brain Training from Dr. Kawashima was released in the UK in June 2007, a year after its predecessor, and followed it to the top of the individual…
The Wii’s initial success was powered by motion-controlled sports with a smattering of more traditional Nintendo pursuits, including inevitably more than one Mario game (Super Mario Galaxy was…
[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…
It’s dark. You’ve slowly picking your way through enemy territory, laying down and crawling to cower from helicopter spotlights, remaining cautious and vigilant. It’s a slow, laborious process….
It feels appropriate to start my post on 2007’s version of Pro Evolution Soccer in the same way as my post on 2006’s. Throughout the early 00s, the…
I should mention up front that FIFA 08 is where I came back in as a FIFA player. More than that, in fact, it is the source of…
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