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2008 is when the HD versions of the Big Two football games finally overcame the lasting momentum of the PS2 to became the leading versions. As well as…
After the Star Wars prequel trilogy finished in 2005, the production of new Star Wars films went into a relatively brief (and possibly final) break. There was no…
Mercenaries 2 is not the first UK #1 game of 2008 to centre on privatised military acting in the global south. Coming after Army of Two, it is…
The games charts are, at least viewed over time, a way of seeing different mainstream visions of what games could be. 2007 and 2008 were fascinating for the…
[This is a guest post, and I’m as happy as ever to welcome back David C James, whose previous posts here include Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and God of…
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….
Just because Ubisoft had found a new idea to give them a big breakthrough, it didn’t mean that they weren’t going to carry on with what already worked…
From Syndicate to Conflict: Desert Storm to Gears of War, there has been a tendency for squad-based shooting games to settle on four as the optimal size of…
One thing that the Burnout series’s introductory radio station Crash FM provides is plenty of soundbites to neatly sum up its games. Burnout Revenge’s “it’s a car-crash-car world”…
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….
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