Review

What’s admirable about a game that doesn’t care about you? Richard Clark reviews the oblivious Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.

Jason Johnson describes how indie MMO Realm of the Mad God brings out the ugliest in us. And why that’s mostly a beautiful thing.

J. Nicholas Geist on why the latest Lego videogame adaptation, Pirates of the Caribbean, is the most truthful to the blocky farfetched form.

Jon Irwin finds meaning in the perhaps-too-simple kind of life portrayed in Convergence.

The new god game from Another World creator Éric Chahi takes the wide view. Jason Johnson considers what is lost.