Bound by Flame: a game that doesn’t exist
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Review
The Last Tinker: City of Colors looks to the glory days of mascot platformers
More mushroom kingdoom than “wahoo!” jump, though.
Sneaking through Republique’s amorphous, subversive second episode
Inside Metamorphosis.
Sportsfriends reminds us how local multiplayer can be
It’s in that name.
Wayward Souls will eat you alive
As brutal as Super Hexagon, as cute as Jetpack Joyride.
Probably Archery is an exercise in tragicomic frustration
Definitely something.
In Trials Fusion, we are all murderers
What does the future look like for motorcycle trials? Short answer: not good.
Third Eye Crime is noir. Because: noir
On having something to say.
Daylight turns the mundanity of procedural generation into terror
Round and round we go.
Kirby Triple Deluxe tests the blob’s boundaries
I did not inhale.
Hitman GO is a dapper little mutation
Shuffling the pieces with the video-board-videogame.
The grand hypothesizing of Child of Light
Enjoy the art, little babies.
Nintendo layers on the zaniness in Mario Golf: World Tour
Also discussed: Golf (the NES game).
The boredom and silence of Extrasolar, a real-life waiting game
Out there; in here.
Out of the Park 15 is the absurd game baseball deserves
Learning to love an unlovable game.
Nintendo becomes the poor man’s Girl Talk in NES Remix 2
Someone owes Diddy a royalty.
FRACT OSC isn’t a synthesizer or a game. It’s both
The triumph of the middle way.
2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil is big, inclusive, and boring
A game of pomp and pomp. And pomp.
The true enemy in Moebius: Empire Rising is mundanity
Test your patience in the name of science and history.
A Crooked Mile proves that The Wolf Among Us still has bite
Telltale plumbs the depths. (It’s sort of what they do.)
The distancing beauty of Betrayer
Look, but don’t touch. Or something.
Dominique Pamplemousse commits the sin of telling instead of showing
Over, and over, and over again.
With Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball, Nintendo returns baseball to the sandlot
The sweet crack of a bat against rawhide.
The Doom that Came to Atlantic City updates Monopoly with harried results
Cthulhu destroys your nostalgia.
Calculords makes me feel like a math genius, and that’s magical
I am not a “math man.”