Midway

Reviews

Stranglehold

By G. Christopher Williams

Stranglehold resembles Hard Boiled in that it, like the film, seems largely a series of very pretty, very stylish action sequences unified by only the thinnest veneer of a plot and motivations for characters. [12 October 2007]

Xbox Live Arcade

By Alex Vo

When American 'entrepreneurs' steal game designs from foreign countries, they usually repackage it with stupid names like Snood. [24 February 2006]

Mortal Kombat: Deception

By Arun Subramanian

At first, the violence ruffled feathers, but with time the uproar over violence began to focus on other games, and Mortal Kombat became increasingly irrelevant. [5 November 2004]

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

By G. Christopher Williams

This sort of tired and hackneyed plotting and game play is exactly why the B-movie comparison must be made. [15 July 2004]

NBA Ballers

By David Leonard

Its erasure of racism, its fetishization of an imagined black cultural aesthetic, its glorification of excessive materialism, its celebration/demonization of black athletes as focused solely on bling-bling, and its treatment of women as sexual objects of possible acquisition, are all troubling. [30 June 2004]