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Call Of Duty articles

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360) retrospective

With a bit more time on my hands this week, I decided to dust off my Xbox One and play through a game that I sunk many an hour into on the Xbox 360 about a decade ago (although it turns out not in the way I thought) - Call...

Warzone's Godzilla v Kong event is better than it sounds

Any semi-regular reader of this blog will know that I’m a fairly frequent critic of live services and games that make their money with microtransactions, so it may come as a surprise that this week’s article is about Call of Duty: Warzone - and it’s simply about how much fun...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 retrospective

I have good memories of the Modern Warfare trilogy. Between 2007 and 2011, I bought all the games pretty much on release. This was one of the most popular series around at the time, mostly because of its famous online multiplayer. But while I played online sometimes, that wasn’t really...

Microsoft, Activision Blizzard, and the future of gaming

This isn’t a blog about the business of video games, but there was one piece of industry news this week that was such a shock that I had to cover it - Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. A long time coming Really, this story started a lot earlier...

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The good stuff

Resident Evil 2 Remake (PS4) retrospective

How to run a half marathon (better)

Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (PS4) retrospective

The Sims (PC) retrospective

BioShock Infinite (PC) retrospective

Searching for God in Starfield

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Xbox 360) retrospective

Resident Evil HD Remaster (PS4) retrospective

GTA IV's Liberty City is still the best virtual city ever made

BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea (PC) retrospective

Fable (PC) retrospective

Formula 1 97 (PS1) retrospective

Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (PS2) Master League retrospective

The newbie's guide to buying Formula 1 models

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