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A good kid’s game, film, or book is one that children can spend hours of time on. A great one is a game that children and adults can enjoy equally. Skylanders Trap Team is closer to Saturday Disney than Harry Potter, but that’s not really a criticism of it. It’s...
When Michael Foucault wrote about his philosophical concept of the “limit”, he was talking about how we need art that push boundares – of good taste, of sexuality, of art itself – in order to define what the limit is and why we need to have it. Bayonetta 2 will...
Jet Car Stunts is the kind of game that appears simple on the outside, but smacks you in the face with its sheer difficulty. I enjoyed it, and I may have even earned back some of the skills I had when I was a lad. When I finally get a...
I just hope that F1 2015 has an engine for the new generation of consoles and puts the series back on track.
For all the games’ narrative themes of consciousness-probing, identity-subsuming science, the reordering of the psychic self for a greater application of the flesh, I needed to look no further than my own pathological gameplay in its honour. The rage quits, the restarts, the late nights, the infinitesimal adjustments to my...
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2 takes a baby step forward from last year’s game, but more time and effort might have yielded a better game that takes a few more chances. That is not to say it is a bad game. It simply comes across as decidedly average and...
Looking back on this review, I’m actually a bit depressed that the highlight of the game (for me, at least) was simply how good Ryse looked. It’s obvious that Crytek is capable of so much more, but Ryse simply borrows the best that a few franchises has to offer, and...
The penalties for my aggressive style of racing seem like they would take all of the fun out of Driveclub for me, given that’s usually the only way I can win in this genre, but that is not the case. I enjoy Driveclub a great deal and am looking forward...
