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The Kill Screen Review: Torchlight II
J. Nicholas Geist returns to Torchlight, and Torchlight, and loses his way.
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The Kill Screen Guest Review: U-God of the Wu-Tang Clan plays Borderlands 2
Our reporter tagged along as the most underappreciated member of the Wu-Tang tried out the new shooter.
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The Kill Screen Review: Papo y Yo
The new addiction parable Papo y Yo dredges up a painful experience from Yannick LeJacq’s past
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New Super Mario Bros. 2 is worth every last coin.
A million reasons why Mario’s latest might just be his greatest yet.
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Some Fling
The new catapult game Wreckateer for Xbox 360 uses Kinect to let you load and launch rocks into castles. How do you mess this up?
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Brainwashed!
Richard Clark and Ryan Kuo played out their Outwitters review on Sharkfood Island, across one week and three different states.
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Seeking a Lower Power
Babel Rising lets you play as God, but you can hardly call it a God game. Remolding Him into an angry tower defender, Babel Rising becomes a ruthless joke on general faith and a victory dance for the anti-theist audience.
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The Whatever Gaze
The CGI softcore and coquetry of Lollipop Chainsaw is not supposed to be taken seriously. But are the game’s aggressive sexual politics culpable of its rather serious presumptions of gender? Sorry, it’s not sorry.
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War Is Hell. Except When It’s Fun.
Spec Ops: The Line promises to challenge us with moral dilemmas. But the game ultimately offers as much critique on a morally decrepit genre, the modern military shooter, as it does the hardships of war.
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A Hand in Forgetting
Datura, a surreal new videogame from Poland, is based on the realistic hand movements of the PlayStation Move controller. But like a David Lynch film it travels in the opposite direction, leading you to a place where everything is wrong, and your choices don’t matter.
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Mise-@-Scène
Before email and Twitter, the @ symbol was the faceless character of Rogue and its cult of roguelikes. New from rising developer Michael Brough is Zaga-33, a dungeon crawl that manages to be beautifully abstract and polemical at once. Has Brough found the message in the medium?
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Cloud of War
If we must tangle with our enemies, can we laugh with them too? Nintendo’s new Kid Icarus: Uprising soars through a cloud of action, wit, and self-reference—all at once.