Review
The Sailor’s Dream is a labyrinth, an instrument, a place
Simogo’s latest defies categorization.
J Nicholas Geist
Review
A robot breaks its rules in The Fall
One way to go?
Review
Uncovering the secrets of Tengami’s folded-up world
Also hidden: really pretty stuff.
Review
Continue?9876543210 is a brilliant mess of videogame ontology
An epitaph for epitaphs.
Review
Device 6 is a mystery game that creates as many mysteries as it solves
A real page-turner, this.
Review
Bioshock Infinite’s 1999 Mode is less money, mo’ problems
To what is Bioshock Infinite heir?
Review
The Kill Screen Review: Torchlight II
J. Nicholas Geist returns to Torchlight, and Torchlight, and loses his way.
Essay
In Balance and Imbalance
J. Nicholas Geist takes apart and rebuilds the mechanics of Fumito Ueda’s minimal classic Ico into words.
Review
Review: Fallout New Vegas Add-Ons
Why the post-apocalypse isn’t all about you.
Review
Review: Lego Pirates of the Caribbean
J. Nicholas Geist on why the latest Lego videogame adaptation, Pirates of the Caribbean, is the most truthful to the blocky farfetched form.
Review
Infinity Blade
How to read a game that never ends.
Review
Review: Dragon Age II
BioWare’s latest role-playing epic knows how to seduce you, except when it really doesn’t. J. Nicholas Geist writes on the game’s fourth-wall-breaking manuevers and the issue of acceptance.