Trials Evolution hits the throttle and never lets up (review)
The formula is simple: You control a dude on a motorbike and must use careful timing and acceleration to traverse 2-dimensional obstacle courses. But...
Skullgirls revisits the Golden Age of fighting games and animation (review)
Skullgirls takes inspiration equally from Tex Avery cartoons and Marvel Vs. Capcom. This hand-drawn, all-women fighter engages players with great animation and features aimed at hardcore fans.
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir is creepy enough while it lasts (review)
Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir is one of those games where the “Genre:” tag should read “Design Experiment.” It feels like the first question the creative team asked was, “How can we try out this new technology?” as opposed to “What is the story we want to tell?” or “What kind of experience do we want to create for the player?”
Retro graphics and relaxing puzzles help Fez rise above a troubled history (review)
Fez is one of those games where the backstory threatens to take up more space than the real story. So let’s get the backstory...
Anomaly: Warzone Earth successfully reverses tower defense (review)
In the year 2018, an alien spaceship breaks in two and crashes on Earth. Terrible invading machines emerge from the wreckage and assemble treacherous gauntlets in the middle of Baghdad and Tokyo. Good thing they know how to implement gamification in their invasion....
Kinect Star Wars fails to live up to its potential (review)
Kinect Star Wars has been in the works for a long time. When Microsoft first demonstrated the Kinect motion-sensing system in June 2010, it...
Xenoblade Chronicles redeems the Xeno name (review)
Thousands of fans rallied for Xenoblade Chronicles' Western localization. Now that the game has arrived, was it all worth it?
Kid Icarus: Uprising only gets so far on wax wings (review)
26 years have passed since Kid Icarus was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Aside from a forgotten handheld sequel for the Game Boy...
Sine Mora, a side-scrolling shooter for the masses (review)
Sine Mora inspires a certain amount of wondering about what a 2D shooter really needs in the way of production values. Does it need...