Review: Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
A late studio still has valuable lessons to teach us about world building and the art of noir. Filipe Salgado reviews the obscure sequel to an overlooked mystery, Hotel Dusk: Room 215.
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Review: Ready Steady Bang
The essence of the film Western takes unlikely shape in this cute iOS diversion. Kevin Nguyen explains how Ready Steady Bang hit a target even Red Ded Redemption missed.
Review: Burnout CRASH!
What happens when you take the best part of a racing game and make it the entire game?
Review: Fruit Ninja Kinect
Discovering friendship by karate-chopping an imaginary piece of fruit. Jason Johnson field tests Fruit Ninja Kinect, the game of juicy assassination.
Review: Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Cyberpunk role-playing game Deus Ex: Human Revolution weighs in on philosophical questions of technology and humanity. But can it transcend the conflicts and contradictions of its subject matter?
Review: Madden NFL 12
Ian Cohen goes down the rabbit hole of the newest iteration of EA Sports’ monolithic Madden series and concludes that the best moments in the game aren’t on the clock.
Review: Rock of Ages
Lana Polansky reviews Rock of Ages, a boulder-rolling downloadable title that also crashes through history and eons of accumulated wisdom about art and ourselves.
Review: Pudding Panic
Why this game might not be as quiveringly awesome as its name (and its conceit) implies.
Review: Quarrel
Richard Clark on the humanity of a war game played with words, and the inhumanity of computers carrying dictionaries.
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.
Review: Jetpack Joyride
Why the sublimely absurd Jetpack Joyride is a step forward for endless runners. Bonus: what Richard Clark does before bed.
Review: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
A game about the tyranny of kings rules with an uneven hand, but explores the nature of the soul in unexpected ways. Darshana Jayemanne describes how.
Review: Trauma
Krystian Majewski’s debut game evades overt mechanics, feeling, and meaning. Jason Johnson explains why this is a good thing.
Review: Catherine
Lana Polansky delves into the psychology of Atlus’s Catherine, and finds some disturbing—yet fascinating—tendencies not seen since Freud.
Review: Cards Against Humanity
Hyper-offensive Apples to Apples descendant gets a wary thumbs-up from Mathias Crawford.
Review: Fotonica
Jason Johnson starts to feel like a mechanical man in Fotonica—and it’s not a good feeling.
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.
Review: The Stanley Parable
Filipe Salgado reviews a joke with many, many, many punch lines.
Review: Zombie Gunship
iOS title Zombie Gunship allows J. P. Grant to experience warfare in a way Modern Warfare wishes it could.
Review: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
The new action game from Devil May Cry and ?kami artist Takeyasu Sawaki takes the Book of Enoch as inspiration. But it takes a fresh stance on the influence of God, the hero’s motivations, and the source of salvation. Richard Clark digs into El Shaddai.
Review: Pac’N-Jump
Pac-Man has been unearthed from the cabinet yet again, and he has nowhere to go but up, except when he falls down into a dark pit. Richard Clark describes why this is fun.
Review: Moon Diver
The latest game from Strider mastermind Koichi Yotsui, Moon Diver, makes much ado about everything, causing Levi Rubeck a headache.
Review: Gesundheit!
Jon Irwin can’t find a cure for the mechanical sniffles in Gesundheit!, an otherwise healthy iOS title.
Review: Duke Nukem Forever
The long-delayed shooter Duke Nukem Forever inspires disgust, conflict, and introspection in Jamin Warren. And totally breaks our review system for good.
Review: NCAA Football 12
Ian Cohen on why this year’s NCAA Football doesn’t act like it’s supposed to—and why that makes it more like what it’s supposed to be.