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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…
For all of the attendant pomp and ceremony, the World Cup is just a bunch of football matches, right? That’s the approach EA Sports relied on, with FIFA…
In the mid-00’s, we were fully in the phase of others working out what they could learn from the success of Grand Theft Auto. Some of this came…
I had saved the town of Kvatch from falling completely to the demons of Doom-world (alright, ‘Oblivion’), but it wasn’t that simple. Death and damage had already been…
In my post on FIFA Street, I talked about MC Harvey’s performance in the game, doing ”quadruple service as commentator, hypeman, provider of advice, and stand-in for the…
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