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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June 1, 2015
Zombiebucket Doesn’t Require Braaaains to Play, But It’s Still Fun
By Nadia Oxford
Zombiebucket from One More Level is more fun than a bucket of zombies — which is an odd comparison to make. Literally anything would be more fun than a bucket of zombies, because a pail full of decomposing flesh and …
Upcoming
May 29, 2015
I Am MT2 Comes West as ‘Rush of Heroes’ This June
By Nadia Oxford
Based on a show loosely inspired by World of Warcraft, Locojoy’s Epic Heroes (initially released as “I Am MT,” which is the name it still goes by in Asian territories) garnered a significant Western fan base thanks to the game’s …
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May 29, 2015
Ember’s Journey Leaves Players in the Dark (on Purpose)
By Nadia Oxford
Given our easy access to electric light, we humans tend to take sight for granted. That goes double for those of us that live in cities and therefore never have to rely on the moon for our nocturnal light — …
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May 28, 2015
Ember Conflict Brings Line-drawing to Tactical Warfare
By Nadia Oxford
There are two things about conducting a make-believe war that make it far preferable to waging war for real. First and most obvious, people don’t die in war games. Only polygons and sprites suffer. There may come a day when …
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May 28, 2015
You Probably Want to Kickstart ‘Pixel Starships’
By Nadia Oxford
In space, no one can whine if you steal their stuff. Well, they can try to complain, but since going head-to-head with other players and grabbing their resources is just another day with Pixel Starships, it’s not likely anyone will …
Opinion
May 26, 2015
Neko Atsume: Why Everyone’s Going Nuts Over Virtual Kitties
By Nadia Oxford
If the world wide web has a totem animal, that animal is the cat. Housecats, specifically. Felis vulgaris. Millions of internet users have rallied under the banner of these fascinating animals that domesticated themselves purely on their own terms and …
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May 25, 2015
Simple Machines Teaches Kids STEM Through Games
By Nadia Oxford
Simple Machines (not to be confused with Simple Minds — and don’t you forget about them) is an app from Tinybop that aims to teach kids “the playful side of STEM” — Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. The app contains …
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May 25, 2015
Dark Future: Blood Red States Brings a Taste of Mad Max to Tablets
By Nadia Oxford
Dark Future is a miniature-based board game from Games Workshop. Its premise is based around a grim, dusty future where laws are non-existent and the car is god. Originally published in 1988, Dark Future takes heavy inspiration from Mad Max’s …

Nadia Oxford

Zombiebucket Doesn’t Require Braaaains to Play, But It’s Still Fun

I Am MT2 Comes West as ‘Rush of Heroes’ This June

Ember’s Journey Leaves Players in the Dark (on Purpose)

Ember Conflict Brings Line-drawing to Tactical Warfare

You Probably Want to Kickstart ‘Pixel Starships’

Neko Atsume: Why Everyone’s Going Nuts Over Virtual Kitties

Simple Machines Teaches Kids STEM Through Games

Dark Future: Blood Red States Brings a Taste of Mad Max to Tablets

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