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Reset: Xevious
With its 3D Classics series, Nintendo is bringing its classics into the third dimension. In our second Reset article, Jon Irwin reexamines vertical shooter Xevious and the importance of clouds.
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Review: In the Time Machine Over the Sea
A fan adapts the Neutral Milk Hotel album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea into retro RPG form, and fails horribly. It starts with a misspelling and careens into a deep misunderstanding. Drew Millard laments the game.
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Review: Gears of War 3
Jason Johnson turns to Frank Sinatra to find the rhythms hidden in the new Gears.
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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.
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Review: Burnout CRASH!
What happens when you take the best part of a racing game and make it the entire game?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Review: Pudding Panic
Why this game might not be as quiveringly awesome as its name (and its conceit) implies.
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Review: Quarrel
Richard Clark on the humanity of a war game played with words, and the inhumanity of computers carrying dictionaries.