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Crimson: Steam Pirates – Review

Like Sid Meier’s Pirates but, you know, actually fun. Click the picture to read more!

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Crimson: Steam Pirates – Review

Like Sid Meier’s Pirates but, you know, actually fun. Click the picture to read more!

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Gone with the Timewave: Achron Impressions Part I

Warning: This review contains some mechanical spoilers but only minimal narrative spoilers. If I could travel through time, I’d go back to when I first got interested in Achron and kick myself. Then I’d give past-me a stern lecture. “Haven’t

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Gone with the Timewave: Achron Impressions Part I

Warning: This review contains some mechanical spoilers but only minimal narrative spoilers. If I could travel through time, I’d go back to when I first got interested in Achron and kick myself. Then I’d give past-me a stern lecture. “Haven’t

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Review: Raventhorne

Raventhorne, the first game of this summer’s Xbox Live Indie Uprising event, feels something like that kid in high school who was brilliant in math, except he’s in English class. It’s a game that manages to hit something exceptionally out

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Review: Raventhorne

Raventhorne, the first game of this summer’s Xbox Live Indie Uprising event, feels something like that kid in high school who was brilliant in math, except he’s in English class. It’s a game that manages to hit something exceptionally out

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Picross 3D – Review

What have I become, my sweetest friend? Full of empty thoughts, I lost deadlines, meetings. I lost possibilities, time. But when I’m playing this game, all feelings disappear. I am someone else. Picross 3D did this to me.

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Picross 3D – Review

What have I become, my sweetest friend? Full of empty thoughts, I lost deadlines, meetings. I lost possibilities, time. But when I’m playing this game, all feelings disappear. I am someone else. Picross 3D did this to me.

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Angry Birds – An Informed Review

Angry Birds is a game about insane birds that I have never played. Why are the birds angry? I don’t know. Maybe they’ve had a bit too much to drink. Maybe they’ve been sexually deprived for a few weeks, leading

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Angry Birds – An Informed Review

Angry Birds is a game about insane birds that I have never played. Why are the birds angry? I don’t know. Maybe they’ve had a bit too much to drink. Maybe they’ve been sexually deprived for a few weeks, leading

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Review – Bastion

Remember my Outland review? Of course you don’t. But everything I say there goes triple for Bastion. In a year of pretty incredible independent games, Bastion is the best of the year so far. It is a legitimately great game

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Review – Bastion

Remember my Outland review? Of course you don’t. But everything I say there goes triple for Bastion. In a year of pretty incredible independent games, Bastion is the best of the year so far. It is a legitimately great game

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Review – Avadon: The Black Fortress

One of writer Kurt Vonnegut’s rules for writing engaging fiction was thus: Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. He had a

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Review – Avadon: The Black Fortress

One of writer Kurt Vonnegut’s rules for writing engaging fiction was thus: Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. He had a

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Sky Island Review

Warning: This review contains detailed and unrestricted spoilers. Sky Island is a puzzle platformer starring a vaguely humanoid star who collects stars. If your mind isn’t completely blown yet, let me add that you can collect coins for points, Goomba-stomp

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Sky Island Review

Warning: This review contains detailed and unrestricted spoilers. Sky Island is a puzzle platformer starring a vaguely humanoid star who collects stars. If your mind isn’t completely blown yet, let me add that you can collect coins for points, Goomba-stomp

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LAST WINDOW: THE SECRET OF CAPE WEST – Review

Mysteries pile up, crimes may occur, but Kyle Hyde is always ready! Ready to sell cleaning products, do the crosswords, play pool and, of course, hear about all your life’s problems! LAST WINDOW: THE SECRET OF CAPE WEST is a

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LAST WINDOW: THE SECRET OF CAPE WEST – Review

Mysteries pile up, crimes may occur, but Kyle Hyde is always ready! Ready to sell cleaning products, do the crosswords, play pool and, of course, hear about all your life’s problems! LAST WINDOW: THE SECRET OF CAPE WEST is a

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Review: Outland

“So much style without substance, so much stuff without style. It’s hard to recognize the real thing, it comes along once in a while. -Neil Peart What do we expect from video games? Do we require innovation? New experiences? More

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Review: Outland

“So much style without substance, so much stuff without style. It’s hard to recognize the real thing, it comes along once in a while. -Neil Peart What do we expect from video games? Do we require innovation? New experiences? More

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