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It might not be what the Proper Football Men want to hear, but the professional game is changing at a dizzying speed, with no chance whatsoever that it's going to return to what they remember playing themselves. Some of this is probably bad news. More...

In many ways, we live in a world of near-infinite choice. We can find any music, any video, and a lot of words free of charge (should we choose to), and we can purchase from anywhere in the world if we're prepared to wait a while for delivery. But in some...

By the early years of the 1980s, the video gaming cat was out of the bag, and even the industry crash of 1983 wouldn't see the end of this revolution on either side of the Atlantic. While fundamental changes to the industry would come about as a result of...

The rate at which computing technology developed over its first couple of decades or so always meant that the development of video gaming technology was going to be similarly rapid. As the technology has developed and both the physical size and - arguably...

When it came to Britain's entry into the world of home computing, the first generation of games may well have been skewed towards the strategical and the adult, but the influence of the arcades was also there from the very beginning. Clive Sinclair's...

Just as in America, the crucible within which computing grew in the United Kingdom was the scientific community. At a certain critical juncture, though, the British video game would become something subtly different to its mainstream American counterpart....

Video games, despite the best efforts of those who would wish otherwise, are not going anywhere. It's now been a little over four full decades since arcade games were properly brought into homes with the release of the Atari 2600 console, and football has...