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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.
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Review: Jetpack Joyride
Why the sublimely absurd Jetpack Joyride is a step forward for endless runners. Bonus: what Richard Clark does before bed.
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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.
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Review: Trauma
Krystian Majewski’s debut game evades overt mechanics, feeling, and meaning. Jason Johnson explains why this is a good thing.
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Review: Catherine
Lana Polansky delves into the psychology of Atlus’s Catherine, and finds some disturbing—yet fascinating—tendencies not seen since Freud.
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Review: Cards Against Humanity
Hyper-offensive Apples to Apples descendant gets a wary thumbs-up from Mathias Crawford.
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Review: Fotonica
Jason Johnson starts to feel like a mechanical man in Fotonica—and it’s not a good feeling.
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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.
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Review: The Stanley Parable
Filipe Salgado reviews a joke with many, many, many punch lines.
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Review: Zombie Gunship
iOS title Zombie Gunship allows J. P. Grant to experience warfare in a way Modern Warfare wishes it could.
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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.
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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.