Reviews

Obscene would be the best way to describe this game. Not so much in the sense that there are gratuitous amounts of visceral fluids on screen, or that the language would make a sailor blush; but rather that Suda 51, the game’s creators are attempting to sell you a reality where you use coconut transportation as a means to pay an entry fee into a battle royal of the top assassins in the world....

When six twenty-somethings get together for New Year’s Eve, what’s the first thing they ask for? No, not a bucket of booze — the Wii! Well, ok, maybe booze started off the night, and it certrainly ended the night, but in between pulls of Tanq and tonics and Pino Grigio there was Wii Sports, Dragonforce on Expert in Guitar Hero 3 (sha, right, Jack) and Dance Dance Revolution Hotte...

A couple of years ago I sat in an unremarkable restroom stall at my old office building playing a pretty unremarkable — yet surprisingly addictive — game on my old cell phone. The game was Bejeweled, and even though much of the game revolves around luck — will the right gems fall from the sky or will you be left with no more moves? — I found myself regularly playing the tit...

The first Rayman Raving Rabbids was a Wii launch title and, while it was very creative, suffered from Ubisoft’s lacking full grasp of a new control system. Now, barely a year later, they’ve released a sequel that fixes some issues, but creates new ones. Some of the new minigames are extremely inventive. The ‘cellphone in a movie theater’ game is simple, but hilarious. Gamep...