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Dustforce Review (PC)

A couple of weeks ago I called Super Crate Box “assembly line gaming”. Dustforce makes a more explicit reference to manual labor. The point is to sweep up dirt as quickly and smoothly as possible. It’s like videogames are preparing us for the limited job opportunities of the future....  read more

Star Wars: The Old Republic Review (PC)

Star Wars: The Old Republic isn’t just an MMO. It’s an MMO with a story....  read more

Trine 2 Review (Multi-Platform)

Trine 2’s December release sets it in-between two epic open-world games, the single-player Skyrim and the massively multi-player Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s a timing coincidence, of course, but it’s a coincidence that highlights what makes Trine 2 impressive: it’s refreshingly and delightfully small in scale....  read more

The Binding of Isaac Review (PC/Mac)

There are some things in life too horrible to laugh at. There are other things so horrible that perhaps the only human response is to laugh because we will never make sense of them. Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl’s The Binding of Isaac, a darkly comedic rogue-like action RPG, explores the latter territory—it’s a game about child abuse....  read more

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Review (Multi-platform)

Two of the Emperor’s Space Marines review the new Space Marine training simulator....  read more

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Review
(Multi-Platform)

Step into the conspiracy....  read more

Trauma Review
(PC)

From the psycho-sexual phantasmagoria of the Silent Hill series to the nightmarescapes of Sanitarium to countless amnesiac protagonists unraveling the riddles of identity, videogames have a long tradition of creating compelling narratives out of psychological damage and healing. It is a shame that Trauma is not part of that storied (ahem) institution....  read more

Dirt 3 Review
(Multi-platform)

I cut my teeth with Dirt on a particularly nasty hairpin run in the series’ second installment. Having previously gotten a small taste for rally years ago with Gran Turismo 3—a game I was otherwise terrible at—I’ve been interested in that kind of racing since, but the prospect of reviewing a realistic racer (even an offroad one like Dirt 2, which just happened to fall into my lap) was an intimidating prospect....  read more

Brink Review
(Multi-Platform)

I remember the joy of first playing Team Fortress Classic. It was some time back in middle school, and the Half-Life spinoff introduced me to the world of class-based shooters. As I grew older, my interest in these sprawling multiplayers waned, and I looked back fondly on countless highschool nights of Halo 2 wondering what the allure had even been. I still found the games enjoyable, and could play for hours or days, but soon my attention wandered elsewhere....  read more

Mass Effect 2 Review (PS3)

When Mass Effect was released in 2007, buyers may have noticed a stamp on the box that read "Only on Xbox 360." BioWare's intergalactic RPG was touted as one of the highest-profile console exclusives of the generation—the acclaimed developer was returning to the sci-fi grounds they so thoroughly stomped in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and Xbox owners were going to get to have all the fun. ...  read more