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How Just Dance perfectly found its moment in the lyrics video era
At least one primary school class ended a day this week by dancing along to a video of Just Dance 4’s version of “Gangnam Style”
Super Mario Sunshine showed the problems that can come up when making a Mario game about something. Delfino Isle proved an awkward halfway house between cohesion and freedom….
Just Dance marks a big inflection point in the story of the Wii and the charts. In its first three years, from the end of 2006 to the…
[For this guest post, I’m once again very happy to hand over to Matt Gardner, editor of the excellent site GameTripper (which I hope to be on again…
[For this guest post I welcome back Richard Moss, who previously wrote about Sonic Drift and Pro Evolution Soccer 5. Richard is creator of the excellent documentary podcast…
In games, as with many other media with any kind of sequel or follow-up, a sequel’s initial commercial performance is generally a reflection of its predecessor as much…
[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…
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…
For all Nintendo’s reaches to new audiences with the Wii, 2006 was not a total year zero. (For Nintendo it was Year 117, or at least Year 36…
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