XBLA Reviews

“Oh great, another Batman thing,” I thought when Telltale first announced that it was making a Caped Crusader game. That thought persisted throughout the roughly nine months that followed. Oh …
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The weight of expectation can be a terrible thing for games like Hyper Light Drifter that channel much-loved experiences from the past so directly. And whilst everyone I know (and …
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My culinary skills at home are less MasterChef and more Can’t Cook, Won’t Cook. But bring me a cooking game and I’m all over it. Sadly, it’s a genre that …
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Kerbal Space Program is very likely the first and only space program simulator that you’ll ever play on Xbox One, if not anywhere. It’s a good thing that the clue …
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The Solus Project is quite the anomaly, presenting players with an unusually well-sculpted vision of an alien planet to explore, but at the same time, failing to provide a story …
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10 Second Ninja X is a game centered around time trials. The game takes everything great about challenging platformers and tries to condense it down into the smallest bits possible, …
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As summer takes off across the Northern Hemisphere, it seems as good a time as any to pick up a game set in a tropical island location. Being an explorative …
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Whenever I think about art imitating life, I rarely consider video games as having a deeper meaning than that which we see on screen. Quite literally, games about shooting bad …
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Super Mutant Alien Assault is a game with not much of a story and a very simple premise: kill the gauntlet of enemies with whatever weapons you can get a …
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When the original Carmageddon launched almost 20 years ago, it caused uproar amongst the mainstream press because of its graphic violence and was ultimately censored or even banned altogether in …
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