Everything is a stew of contradictions. It’s slow and it’s thrilling. It’s silly and it’s clever. It’s strange and it’s familiar. Everything was created by artist David OReilly, who worked on the video game animations in the movie Her. His only previous [...]
ittle Nightmares gave me an actual nightmare. As I drifted off after an evening of playing the spooky puzzle-platformer, my mind filled with images of unnaturally long arms reaching for tiny hooded figures and I woke with my heart racing. I shook it off [...]
In MLB The Show 17, I am Minnesota’s top pitching prospect, with a blowtorch fastball and a bodysnatcher changeup. After a decade of playing MLB The Show — a summer of that on a PSP on a commuter train, and the past five seasons with pulse pitching on [...]
Telltale Games’ first swing at a Guardians of the Galaxy story brought back a lot of good feelings. Not memories, necessarily. Just good feelings. The story it tells is a rather standard establishing scene for a comic book hero team, and its [...]
Retro-styled platformers are a dime a dozen these days. Nostalgia-driven jump-fests like Super Meat Boy, Braid, Shovel Knight, and countless others, have honed and reimagined nearly every facet of the genre, leaving a very high bar for newcomers to [...]
BY PHIL HORNSHAW Posted on 06.07.17 There are times when Nintendo Switch fighting game Arms recalls the simple joys of the early days of the Nintendo Wii. Back when motion controls were a fun novelty and Wii Boxing drew crowds at parties, you could have a [...]
