Features

  • Breakout

    15 Minutes Of Game

    Highlights from the week’s comment threads.

  • Little Inferno

    We Didn’t Start The Fire

    The bright, peppy sounds of Little Inferno’s ambivalent armageddon aim to raise your spirits.

  • Caught you red-handed: 9 games with creative copy protection

    Caught you red-handed: 9 games with creative copy protection

    If you’re going to use DRM, you might as well have a sense of humor about it.

  • Unrealistic Sports Games

    The Decline And Fall Of Unrealistic Sports

    Like Gibbon, but with more tackling.

  • Metro

    Apocalypse Later

    The future is bleak in this week’s new releases, unless you happen to be a radioactive mutant, a marble, or Mecha Godzilla.

  • Dungeons & Dragons

    Unfaithful Guide

    Capcom’s Dungeons & Dragons arcade games are a terrible version of their namesake, and that’s okay.

  • Darth Vader, Lando Calrissian, and Boba Fett

    EA Strikes Back

    Star Wars finds a new home, Eternal Darkness returns, and Mecha Nazis attack.

  • The Walking Dead

    Empathy Games

    Finding the virtues amid the violence of Telltale’s The Walking Dead.

  • Mega Man 2 ending

    Mega Mania

    Highlights from the week’s comment threads.

  • Mega Man 2

    Robot Rock

    The theme from Wily’s fortress is ready to pump you up.

  • Mega Man 2

    Mega Man 2: Wood Man

    An appreciation of Dr. Wily’s clumsy, oaken black sheep.

  • Mega Man 2

    The Kid In The Hat

    The legendary ending of Mega Man 2 peels away layers of artifice to reveal poignant truths.

  • Mega Man 2: Metal Man

    Men Of Steel

    Each Robot Master has his own charm. We make our personal picks.