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Review: Frozen Synapse
Dennis Kogel commits to Frozen Synapse, a turn-based game where each turn can take days of serious contemplation.
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Review: Let’s Go Island: Lost on the Island of Tropics
What’s a cooperative game that doesn’t ask for much cooperation? Jordan Mammo reviews Sega’s new arcade shooter for couples.
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Review: Trouble Witches Neo!
Something’s lost in translation in this tribute to tributes to shoot-’em-ups. Jason Johnson wonders how many licks it takes to get to the center of this otaku confection. (The answer: a bazillion neon bullets.)
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Review: Carcassonne
Jason Johnson schemes his way to victory in a tight head-to-head battle of Carcassonne, the boardgame-turned-videogame where the self-interest and greed of land ownership make for strange bedfellows.
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Review: Sequence
Richard Clark risks it all with Sequence, the genre-bending Xbox Live Indie Games title. How does Sequence use rhythm and role-playing to bring out the best in each genre by demanding imperfection from us as players?
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Review: Hipster City Cycle
Port 127’s Hipster City Cycle is a game in constant motion. Filipe Salgado rides through the satirical 8-bit world on his fixie bike, right into the good graces of hipsterdom.
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Review: Blocks That Matter
Swing Swing Submarine’s Blocks That Matter is a game within a game—within many more games. Jon Irwin unravels the indie title inspired by Tetris and Minecraft.
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Review: Terraria
Terraria is the anti-Minecraft. It’s too bad it was released too early. Brendan Keogh explores Terraria‘s potential despite its lack of refinement.
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Review: L.A. Noire
Why is everyone in Team Bondi’s L.A. Noire obsessed with Cole Phelps? Kirk Hamilton makes a run through its virtual Los Angeles, and never looks back.
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Review: Bulletstorm
Here is a game that revels in the absurdity of its premise and wants everyone to be able to enjoy it. Brian Howe takes a look at Bulletstorm‘s B-movie madness.
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Review: Capsized
Alien Trap’s Capsized wants to let you float, fly and soar freely. If only it gave you some space. Dennis Kogel muses on why Capsized should have widened its horizons.
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Review: The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile
James Silva turns oppressive machinery into a dance with death. We review his latest blood-spattered cyberpunk fantasy.