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Reset: Urban Champion
A dramatic, first-hand, strangely painful re-encounter with Urban Champion of times long gone.
Jon Irwin
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Review: Kyotokei
If a game was made by the same people who design video surveillance software, does it matter? Jon Irwin investigates.
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Reset: Xevious
With its 3D Classics series, Nintendo is bringing its classics into the third dimension. In our second Reset article, Jon Irwin reexamines vertical shooter Xevious and the importance of clouds.
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Neo-Location
Two D.C. musicians take the avatar approach to the National Mall and New York’s Central Park.
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Review: Pudding Panic
Why this game might not be as quiveringly awesome as its name (and its conceit) implies.
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Review: Toy Soldiers: Cold War
Jon Irwin strikes an uncomfortable balance between childhood fantasy and the gruesomeness of real life in Toy Soldiers: Cold War.
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Everybody’s Doing It
Jon Irwin explores the sensual anxiety of playing Ocarina for the first time.
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Looking Alive!
Jon Irwin experiences the tactile, analog joy of Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum’s many oddities and anachronisms. Leave modern day gizmos at the door and discover what it’s like to be roasted by an animatronic alien, to test your mettle with the “Three Trials of Terror, and why Marvin Yagoda’s
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Reset: Excitebike
Jon Irwin renews his love for the simple yet perfect mathematics of Excitebike for 3DS, which, despite new bells and whistles, is still the same old classic at its core.
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Review: Gesundheit!
Jon Irwin can’t find a cure for the mechanical sniffles in Gesundheit!, an otherwise healthy iOS title.
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Review: Convergence
Jon Irwin finds meaning in the perhaps-too-simple kind of life portrayed in Convergence.
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Blood Elf of the Long Robe
A player in a top-ranking World of Warcraft guild, and lawyer by day, speaks to us about epic raids and corporate takeovers.