Review

Why does Filipe Salgado always feel guilty whenever he plays Pokémon? Maybe it’s because Pokémon unabashedly refuses to grow up—save a few evolutions here and there. But is that really such a bad thing? Pokémon Black and White shows some awkward signs of growth—but still appeals more to the rowdy li

Jordan Mammo got sucked into Marvel vs. Capcom 3‘s colorful acrobatics. But how far can a light show go? Read on to see what fighting games have to do with athletes.

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.

Some may mistake the third in this series from Atlus as one of the new crop of retro, impossible Japanese role-playing games, but they’re wrong. Courtesy of Shigeo Komori, the drone of the grinding in the sea city of Armoroad provides its own distinct appeal.

Cheap and easy iPhone games are a dime a dozen. How do they affect us on a deeper level if they’re meant as distractions? Quantum Sheep’s monochromatic space jumper tackles the dilemma head on.

The newest project from a Canadian team lead by Craig Adams, Superbrothers is a singing homage to adventure games of yesteryear for the iPad. Colbert Report writer and KS contributing editor Rob Dubbin reviews this heroine’s journey, from middle school all the way to the moon.

A game to make you feel like a 10-year-old on the playground again.

This free RPG download from an Irish math student becomes very, very messy very, very quickly.

The year is 2025. You’re a detective, apparently. You specialize in data alteration, or something. Inexplicably, this phishing site called dénicheur.net has drudged up the embarrassing personal information of four old acquaintances, threatening an important event in each of their lives. Fred, Anaïs,

As a child, whenever a restaurant would offer me chopsticks I couldn’t help but accept. It didn’t matter that I was rubbish with them; I’d take it as a personal challenge, transforming any meal into a meta-game. By neutering the 2D platformer of its jumping, Bionic Commando Rearmed captured that fee

?You’ve played Tiny Wings if you own an iDevice. Statistically speaking, it is harder to have not played it. You’re playing it right now, aren’t you?

Lovely. I love watching Battleheart move. Because screenshots on Touch Arcade make the thing look like shovelware, but it’s lovely in motion. The knight pokes an orc with his stubby sword and the orc flops onto his back and blinks in and out of oblivion.

I’m presented with a satellite view of city blocks, made up of buildings and right angles. Yellow dots, civilians, populate the concrete sprawl. Arrows with skulls point to trouble. At this point in Atom Zombie Smasher, I only have the evac helicopter to ferry away the civilians. Little purple dots,