It was somewhere in between hacking down a pack of wolves and picking colorful mushrooms to make an explosive potion that I realized that I hadn’t looked up from my iPad in some time. It was a cathartic moment; one …
Last September I reviewed the original Goat Simulator. While I wasn’t necessarily the game’s target audience, I did appreciate the game for what it was: a silly little time-killer that allowed players to control a goat and move about a …
Nitrome cooks up some of the most colorful games currently available on mobile platforms. So it’s kind of weird to describe its latest game, Cooped Up, as “dark.” Mind, Cooped Up is still a joyful collision of color. There are …
Thanks to Steven Toast, all I can think of when I play this games is, “Yes, I can hear you Clem Fandango.” Toast has ruined Grim Fandango for me, even though the original game predates Matt Berry’s running joke by …
Smartphone game developers were doing some very impressive things with the gamebooks of old, but none have had the impact that Inkle has made. These guys have reinvented the concept to such a degree that I’m forced to wonder whether …
What’s in a name? For Zynga, enough perceived value that it wanted to call its new, free-to-play strategy game Empires & Allies even though it’s something more akin to a mobile version of Command & Conquer than their Facebook hit …
Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you. And sometimes the bear breaks into your museum and destroys all your valuable artifacts. This is one of those times. Bears vs. Art puts players in the paws of …
WARNING: Spoilers for Broken Age: Act 1 follow. Broken Age is an absolutely stunning game that successfully tells a single, cohesive story across two characters’ uniquely intertwined experiences. Act 1 introduced us to Shay and Vella, two youths who had …