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Why I play violent video games
First-Person Shooter
When I was 15, I made a new best friend.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| February 06, 2013
Hotline Miami and America’s narrative of masculinity and violence
Laser Orgy
Laser Orgy
By:
MADDY MYERS
| January 16, 2013
Get on your snow (re)boots: Video game makeovers in 2013
With the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 now in their seventh and eighth years of existence, they've been around far longer than previous console generations.
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| December 21, 2012
Thinking man's action: Top games of 2012
At some point, it stopped being a trend and became the reality: the most interesting, thought-provoking games aren't mega-budget retail releases, but smaller downloadable titles.
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| December 19, 2012
Outside the box: PC indie games of 2012
Here are five PC indie games of 2012 that serve as important counterpoints to the Halo s and Mass Effect s of the mainstream gaming world.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| December 19, 2012
Boyfriend Maker 101: We have met the boyfriend, and he is us
Laser Orgy
Two weeks ago, references to an iOS game called Boyfriend Maker began flooding my Twitter feed.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| December 06, 2012
One woman’s battle against the anxious masculinity of the fighting-games scene
A Challenger Appears
Arcades are dead, but the fighting-games community has straggled on without them, via gaming meet-ups in stores, bars, and basements.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| October 16, 2012
Boston Festival of Indie Games: The next step
Game On
Game On
By:
WEI-HUAN CHEN
| October 04, 2012
Beyond shooters
10 video games that will invade your brain this fall
In an era of scripted set pieces and action sequences that are no more than glorified shooting galleries, Dishonored aims to give players the tools to author their own experiences.
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| September 18, 2012
Review: Darksiders II
A tour of gaming tropes
"Gentlemen, I'm not going to mince words. THQ is in trouble. We're bleeding cash, and we need a hit game to save our ass. I want you to tell me what you're going to do to make Darksiders II that game."
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| September 04, 2012
Review: Orcs Must Die! 2
Monster Mash
We're all happy to see more games that deal honestly and maturely with questions of life and death, and that question the player's role in perpetuating the cycle of violence.
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| August 21, 2012
Review: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD
Senior circuit
Making new Tony Hawk games obviously wasn't working. Why not make the old ones instead?
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| August 07, 2012
Review: Spec Ops: The Line
Friendly fire
Heavily inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and even more so by Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now , The Line follows a three-man squad of Delta operatives into a ravaged Dubai.
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| July 18, 2012
Review: Quantum Conundrum
Space and time
Of all the brainteasers on offer in Quantum Conundrum , a new downloadable puzzle game, the toughest one to crack is how to discuss it without comparisons to Portal .
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| July 06, 2012
Review: Lollipop Chainsaw
Mixed messages
At least this high-kicking, somersaulting, zombie-fighting, magical school girl protagonist is of legal ogling age!
By:
MADDY MYERS
| June 29, 2012
Review: Max Payne 3
Max Payne's bloody Brazilian getaway
Max Payne 3 makes video-game violence mean something again.
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| June 15, 2012
Review: The Walking Dead: Episode 1
Dead reckoning
Halfway between a traditional point-and-click adventure game and a Heavy Rain -style interactive fiction, the central aim of The Walking Dead is to put players in impossible situations with no good outcome.
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| June 08, 2012
Review: Diablo 3
Always on
Where is your copy of Diablo 3 ? It's not on your computer. It never will be. It is in the cloud, with all its virtual spoils streaming live over the Internet.
By:
MADDY MYERS
| June 03, 2012
Review: Trials Evolution
On the right track
Trials Evolution is a game about launching dirt bikes off sweet jumps, gunning for record-breaking times, and occasionally doing backflips. It's like a modern-day Excitebike .
By:
MITCH KRPATA
| May 15, 2012
Interview: Indie game designer Edmund McMillen defends his most controversial work
The C Word
The C Word
By:
MADDY MYERS
| May 02, 2012
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