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Multimedia
Monday, December 14 2009
By Nick Dinicola
The learning curve is prohibitively high for newcomers, and there’s no depth to attract the normal Madden fan, which is a shame because Madden NFL Arcade can be pretty fun if given the chance.
Friday, December 11 2009
By Thomas Cross
With no Wii histrionics, this game has to stand on its own.
Wednesday, December 9 2009
By Azmol Meah
While many rightfully credit Super Mario Bros. as the saviour of the games industry following the crash of ’83, Space Invaders influence on popular culture and on the modern shooter should not be forgotten.
Monday, December 7 2009
By Mike Schiller
Battle amounts to a strange little dance that just happens to involve bodily harm.
Friday, December 4 2009
By Arun Subramanian
A Boy and His Blob features a relationship that is immediately warm without much exposition explaining why, existing almost independent of the narrative.
Wednesday, December 2 2009
By G. Christopher Williams
Sometimes retro can suggest a quaint charm, but sometimes retro just means old.
Monday, November 30 2009
By Nick Dinicola
The biggest example of the developer’s new confidence can be seen in their desire to depict modern warfare without glorifying it.
Wednesday, November 25 2009
By Mike Schiller
Developer Griptonite devised an entirely new narrative, whose sole purpose is to allow Where the Wild Things Are a clear conflict, quest, and resolution, for the sake of fitting it into the typical pseudo-platformer licensed game template.
Monday, November 23 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Deciding whether or not to buy this game is mostly a decision based on who you want to play the game with.
Friday, November 20 2009
By Mike Schiller
DJ Hero treads the line between authentic and artificial in terms of its grasp on DJ culture to a degree that's almost comical.
Tuesday, December 8 2009
By Jennifer Byrne
The surging popularity of the virtual farming game 'FarmVille' seems to imply dissatisfaction with almost every aspect of modern life -- except maybe virtual reality.
(more Pop Osmosis)
Monday, December 7 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Philip K. Dick’s fiction is a defense of the validity of video games because despite the fact that they are not real, his stories argue that there is still something valid in the artificial.
(more Moving Pixels)
Friday, November 6 2009
By G. Christopher Williams
Can Gen X parents bond with the newest generation of gamers given the ways that cooperative gameplay has changed over the years?
(more Moving Pixels)
more Features
Wednesday, September 30 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
Spook Country is about America’s loss of innocence, its various ways of remembering the past, and an attempt to find a way of reconciling those memories with the present.
Thursday, June 18 2009
By L.B. Jeffries
The most useful moments for New Games Journalists are ones that occur in multiplayer, describing experiences that could never occur during just a general session of play.
Wednesday, May 27 2009
By Jack Patrick Rodgers
Warts and all, the ambitious push to expand video game storytelling found in Final Fantasy VIII deserves a closer look at this too-often neglected franchise entry.
Friday, December 11 2009
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