Nadia Oxford

In the early aughts, Nadia fell into writing with the grace of a brain-dead bison stumbling into a chasm. Over the years, she's written for Nerve, GamePro, 1UP.com, USGamer, Pocket Gamer, Just Labs Magazine, and many other sites and magazines of fine repute. She's currently About.com's Guide to the Nintendo 3DS at ds.about.com.

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July 15, 2015
Down the Mountain: An Eternal Descent, Arcade-Style
By Nadia Oxford
If Hipster Whale’s Crossy Road is meant to teach us that a game of Frogger can stretch into infinity, then Umbrella’s Down the Mountain demonstrates that it’s possible to play a round of Q*bert forever and ever and ever — …
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July 14, 2015
Alphabear Tips, Cheats and Strategies
By Nadia Oxford
Alphabear is a word game from Spry Fox. In this game, you spell words, collect bears, and operate within the confines of a countdown that turns your letter tiles into stone if you don’t work fast enough. Gamezebo’s Alphabear tips, …
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July 14, 2015
Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 Release Date and Trailer Revealed
By Nadia Oxford
The Five Nights at Freddy’s games are all about surprises (usually the kind that make you pee your pants a little bit), and series creator Scott Cawthon recently dropped two biggies about the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy’s 4. First: …
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July 13, 2015
Tricky Block is a Tricky Treat for Puzzle Fans
By Nadia Oxford
Imagine Tetris. Now imagine Tetris as a sliding block puzzle. Then apply rules written by mathematician Ian Malcolm: “Faster. Must go faster.” Mix that all up together and what you’ve got is Tricky Block: All Mixed up!, a puzzle game …
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July 10, 2015
Cally’s Caves 3 Dives Below the Surface (Again) July 21st
By Nadia Oxford
Two things are inevitable in Cally’s world: Endless caves, and a need to rescue her kidnapped parents from the twisted Dr Herbert. Cally’s Caves 3 brings both inevitabilities back around for another go. Like its predecessors, Cally’s Caves 3 is …
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July 9, 2015
Alphabear Review: Clever Bear
By Nadia Oxford
Society dictates we’re eventually supposed to outgrow our childhood love for collecting teddy bears. Granted, you can keep right on collecting these fun little fluff-bundles even as you reach your 30s and 40s. There’s no law against doing so. You …
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July 7, 2015
Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition Is Real, Coming This Week
By Nadia Oxford
Don’t Starve is the world’s easiest game. Its tutorial and instruction manual are right there in the title: Don’t starve. All right, so surviving in Klei Entertainment’s wonderfully twisted alternate universe is a little more complicated than that. Aside from …
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July 6, 2015
Shifter! Is a Puzzle Game That Changes Your World
By Nadia Oxford
Shifter! is a game featuring a series of puzzles that are located high in the sky. Its protagonist is a tiny bearded man who shuffles across this eerie landscape as he triggers switches that open up strange-looking door-mouths that teleport …

Nadia Oxford

Down the Mountain: An Eternal Descent, Arcade-Style

Alphabear Tips, Cheats and Strategies

Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 Release Date and Trailer Revealed

Tricky Block is a Tricky Treat for Puzzle Fans

Cally’s Caves 3 Dives Below the Surface (Again) July 21st

Alphabear Review: Clever Bear

Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition Is Real, Coming This Week

Shifter! Is a Puzzle Game That Changes Your World

New Genre-defining Action-Healer, 3 Healers Fables The History of Three Influential Figureheads Without Combat

Satirical Dystopian Time Management Life-Sim Dystopicon Lands on Steam Soon!

Guns of Eschaton Is an Upcoming Soulslike FPS Set in an Occult Apocalyptic West

2.5D Atmospheric Adventure Inspired by Arabian Astronomy Nightscape Drops a New Trailer