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Some Fling

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?

Jul 31 Reviews
Brainwashed!

Brainwashed!

Richard Clark and Ryan Kuo played out their Outwitters review on Sharkfood Island, across one week and three different states.

Jul 25 Reviews
Tony's Busy

Tony's Busy

Up late with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD, Drew Millard returns to the virtual skater he grew up with, and grew apart from. 

Jul 24 Reviews Reset
Seeking a Lower Power

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.  

Jul 19 Reviews
The Whatever Gaze

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.

Jul 12 Reviews
A Rock and a Harder Place

A Rock and a Harder Place

Spelunky, a new platformer on Xbox Live Arcade, erases the textbook on how to succeed at games. For some, it's the ultimate run-and-jump challenge. For Jon Irwin, the randomly generated mine adventure may have appeared at the wrong time in life.

Jul 10 Reviews
War Is Hell. Except When It’s Fun.

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. 

Jul 3 Reviews
A Hand in Forgetting

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.

Jun 29 Reviews
Mise-@-Scène

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? 

Jun 28 Reviews
Cloud of War

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. 

Jun 26 Reviews
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