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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.
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These Private Realms
Can the provocative underage anime girls of Dead or Alive: Dimensions make us desire something more dangerous? Jon Irwin takes a peek at the game’s polygonal nymphs, and wonders what banning a game for questionable content says about our own sexual insecurities.
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Scenes: The End of E3
On his last day at E3, Jon Irwin chooses Nintendo—above all else. The final installment of this four-part series.
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Scenes: The Third Day of E3
On his third day at E3, Jon Irwin skips the pomp and circumstance of some of the bigger booths for a trip down memory lane.
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Scenes: The Second Day of E3
On his second day at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Jon Irwin starts to lose his sense of reality. How very fitting…
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Scenes: The First Day of E3
Kill Screen staff writer Jon Irwin attends his first Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. In this dispatch, holding hands with mutants and reading into attire.
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Review: Blocks That Matter
Swing Swing Submarine’s Blocks That Matter is a game within a game—within many more games. Jon Irwin unravels the indie title inspired by Tetris and Minecraft.
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Seeing Red
The tragic prescience of Nintendo’s Virtual Boy
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Resurrecting Teddy
Can keeping a digital pet ever live up to a master’s relationship with a real one? Do we want to see the day when it can? Jon Irwin wonders why Nintendogs + Cats for 3DS makes him feel so guilty, and why pet sims don’t take the responsibility of pet ownership seriously enough.