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This January, I ended up going to three different child-oriented stage shows involving puppets in the space of four weeks. Fortuitously, we saw them in ascending order of…
For this guest post I am happy to welcome my friend Daisy Letourneur, who you can find on twitter at @DaisyLetourneur. Searching for Wii Fit Plus reviews, Google…
Like other people’s dreams or AI outputs, hearing other people’s Football Manager stories can be a bit of an awkward bore. Not always, though. Brian Phillips’s creative series…
Forza Motorsport 2 was such an accomplished version of the serious road car racing genre popularised by Gran Turismo that there wasn’t anywhere too obvious to take it…
As I first started playing Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, something unprecedented happened. I won my first match. Not just that but I won it comfortably, 3-0. As I…
There is a cutscene near the start of Uncharted 2, a flashback revealing the inciting incident for its plot, which took me by surprise. It involves lead character…
FIFA 10 has an achievement called “Real Fan” which is earned by playing the game for fifty hours. Since I played it on Xbox 360 both when it…
[For this guest post, I am happy to welcome David Caldwell to Super Chart Island for the first time! David is a nonbinary writer and artist living in…
With structural innovations missing or misfiring, there’s one thing left for Need for Speed: Shift to fall back on, and it’s there in the title.
I absolutely loved Codemasters’ early driving game breakthrough Colin McRae Rally and its first sequel. By the time Dirt 2 came out a decade or so later, I…