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DESPITE BEING MADE BY A BRAND-NEW TEAM AND FIRST-TIME DIRECTOR, PANZER DRAGOON DID NOT FEEL LIKE A FIRST FLIGHT. IT SOARED WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF A STUDIO ALREADY IN COMMAND OF ITS VOICE, EXPANDED THE SHOOTER GENRE, AND HINTED AT THE FUTURE CINEMATIC POTENTIAL OF VIDEOGAMES

Does the 1996 shooter still kick ass and chew bubblegum?

SONIC RACING: CROSSWORLDS is a worthy Mario Kart contender… with similar baggage

Rolling around at the speed of sound in ONCE UPON A KATAMARI

Phil ‘Footy’ King’s career in magazines stretches across five decades and counting. Starting as a staff writer on Crash in the late-Eighties, before becoming editor of Mega Power and popular tips mag PowerStation, he still works on magazines today. We have a kickabout with Phil and get the complete A to Z of his enduring games media career