Reviews
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653.3KDead Panic surrounds you with zombies
There are many pieces of good advice if the zombie apocalypse breaks out. Don't get surrounded by zombies would be the first...
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858.0KRoguelike platformer chaos done right – Risk of Rain review
Risk of Rain combines the perma-death challenge and randomized loot of a Roguelike game with old-school sidescroller platformer mechanics, all bound together...
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352.6K“Ready and bored.” — A-Men 2 review
The days of the cutesy 2D action platformer are mostly behind us at this point. As Worms fever passed us by, and...
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954.5KLight up the night! – Review of Hanabi
Set the rocket. Light it. Then step back and watch the fireworks emblazon the night. In board and card game design, no...
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602.3KChew your way to the top — AdvenChewers review
Shortly after I purchased my iPhone, I downloaded a little game called Jetpack Joyride. It occupied my spare time when I only...
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853.4KResogun is a premier launch title on the PS4
Every launch doesn't need a game like Resogun. It needs a game like Call of Duty: Ghosts, or Battlefield 4, or perhaps...
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653.9KThe Bridge will make your head spin
If you’ve played the popular side-scrolling indie puzzler Braid, you might find The Bridge to be a tad too familiar. The art...
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653.5KA new way to wakka-wakka — Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
Everything must evolve to survive, a fact particularly true about the video game industry. Over the years we’ve seen the iconic virtual...
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1004.7KThe Art of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – beautiful savagery
Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag is gorgeous on the next-generation platforms, and recently you’ve had the chance to see it for yourself....
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454.9KThings falling apart — Knack
It’s ironic that Knack’s design is so rooted in the past, despite being one of Sony’s two flagship titles meant to usher...
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404.0KNo, I am your feather — Angry Birds Star Wars
If you've been living under a rock, Angry Birds is arguably the series that tore the gaming world wide-open to casual players....
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804.6KOld-School Gamers Rejoice!! Colossal Cave Review
From the present perspective, summiting yet another peak among the vast range of ever-more fantastic achievements in the digital age, I stop...
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806.5KDig deeper — Super Motherload review
Something roils beneath the Martian surface. Something ominous. It nags at your every thought as you delve deep beneath its crust, searching...
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652.2KPerfect Zen or Perfect Flop: Zen Garden Review
The night is cool. A soft breeze pushes the fragrance of the flowers up into your room. Stepping out onto the balcony,...
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906.1KTearaway is a papercraft marvel
It’s official: Media Molecule is much more than just “the LittleBigPlanet studio.” Tearaway is host to a wonderful world of paper. Everything...
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452.6KPlaying Global Mogul is work
Most people play games to escape from work. Whether that means being a knight, a spaceship captain or an Italian merchant, being...
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959.6KHappy happy, joy joy — Super Mario 3D World
It’s a sad day when a Super Mario release is met with muted enthusiasm, but that’s been the trend regarding our favorite...
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752.6KThe Spiel on the Spiel des Jahres 2012 – Kingdom Builder
Game awards tend to be an exercise in pretentious favoritism, where the flashier products of the big names tend to get the...
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854.8KMectoids, Genetics, and new threats – a review of XCOM: Enemy Within
David Roberts did our original review of XCOM: Enemy Unknown on the PC, and I played it on the Xbox 360. I...
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855.9KRace against time, and everyone else — Need for Speed Rivals
Need for Speed is a franchise with a long, storied history, and Rivals marks the 20th entry in the series. The franchise has...
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704.6KWhere is everyone? — Call of Duty: Ghosts
Another year, another Call of Duty. As long as this series continues to make Scrooge McDuck levels of cash, Activision will continue...
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9011.5KThe classic is back — The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
It’s amazing what cutting the fat and returning to basics can do for gameplay. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds...
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556.5KDeadfall Adventures, dead boring
Once in a while, a game comes along that completely blows you off your lid. The credits roll, and your mouth still...
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803.7KBeauty is the Beast–Blood of the Werewolf
I’ve restarted this review about three times now because I’ve yet to find an adequate way to compose the conflicting emotions and...
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756.1KPac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures
Pac-Man looks like Patrick Stewart to me. Imagine Patrick Stewart's head about 2-3 times its current size with a pair of arms...
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704.5KDrown your sorrows in interdimensional hopscotch- Ratchet & Clank: Into The Nexus
Insomniac's Ratchet & Clank games have been a mainstay on Sony platforms since their debut on the PlayStation 2 back in 2002....
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404.3KAll bark and no fright — Slender: The Arrival Review
Although die-hard horror fans will argue that it never truly went away, the genre seems to have made a resurgence in recent...
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805.4KUp your game with KontrolFreek
When it comes to precision, serious console FPS gamers will take any advantage they can get to add just a touch to...
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357.1KIt’s worse than the name — Alien Rage
When you launch up your Xbox 360 and see the name “Alien Rage,” you have a general, albeit a tad stereotypical, feel...
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403.8KJack of all trades, master of none — Renaissance Man
Leonardo da Vinci is the consummate example of the “Renaissance Man.” He enjoyed renown as a painter, engineer, sculptor, mathematician, and writer...
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855.5KOne does not simply walk into Vesuvius – The Downfall of Pompeii (2nd Ed.)
From the designer of Carcassone, Klaus-Jürgen Wrede, comes this meeple-placement/tile-placement game set in the doomed Roman city of Pompeii. At first, you move...
