Review: Child of Eden
Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s new abstract creation is generous on the senses but not on one’s sense of agency. Richard Clark explains why this might be a good thing.
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Mirror, Mirror
Despite all the improvements Kinect boasts technologically, Kinect Fun Labs stands as a painful reminder of what we lack socially. Richard Clark explains why Kinect Me and its other applications make him feel nothing but disconnected.
Review: Sequence
Richard Clark risks it all with Sequence, the genre-bending Xbox Live Indie Games title. How does Sequence use rhythm and role-playing to bring out the best in each genre by demanding imperfection from us as players?
Review: Casey’s Contraptions
Things come together in this new iPad puzzle game inspired by The Incredible Machine. But the game has regressed—in the best possible way. Staff writer Richard Clark breaks down how.
Review: Don’t Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain’t Your Story
Is social networking the subject, or something in the background? Richard Clark reviews Christine Love’s new game about openness, privacy, and intimacy—and the tenuous relationship between each one.
Review: Minotron: 2112
Try to make sense of Minotron: 2112 and all you get is a deafening bleat. Richard Clark explains why Jeff Minter’s latest psychedelic tribute to retro gaming is a miss, starting with the fact that you can’t aim.
Review: Doodle God
Doodle God wants to be a game about being God. Instead, it’s a game about being like a god. It answers the question: What if we had to do the work of God, but we didn’t possess the resources to do it? Sure, the game gives us resources, in the strictest sense of the word. We start with stone, air, fi
Review: UFO on Tape
It’s a simple idea, really. A single object hovers, darts and dashes in every direction, and I am tasked with following it for as long as possible. There are no power-ups in UFO on Tape, no other levels. This is it. I’m filming a UFO.
Top Down: Hydro Thunder Hurricane
Some of us have trouble sleeping. We place our heads on a pillow and we’re forced to acknowledge all of the personal, social, and global fears that exist in the backs of our minds. We hesitate to linger on them in our waking hours: We change channels in the middle of a news story, we fly through Goo