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Review: Spec Ops: The Line

Friendly fire
Heavily inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and even more so by Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now , The Line follows a three-man squad of Delta operatives into a ravaged Dubai.

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 18, 2012

Crossword: ''Tally Ho!''

Where have I heard that before?
Where have I heard that before?

By: MATT JONES | July 17, 2012

Crossword: ''The Big Build-Up''

See the sequences?
See the sequences?

By: MATT JONES | July 11, 2012

Review: Quantum Conundrum

Space and time
Of all the brainteasers on offer in Quantum Conundrum , a new downloadable puzzle game, the toughest one to crack is how to discuss it without comparisons to Portal .

By: MITCH KRPATA | July 06, 2012

Crossword: ''British Invasion''

Are you ready?
Are you ready?

By: MATT JONES | July 03, 2012

Review: Lollipop Chainsaw

Mixed messages
At least this high-kicking, somersaulting, zombie-fighting, magical school girl protagonist is of legal ogling age!

By: MADDY MYERS | June 29, 2012

Crossword: ''Meet the Beetles''

You're gonna bug out.
You're gonna bug out.

By: MATT JONES | June 26, 2012

Crossword: ''I See London''

But can you see the Olympic message?
But can you see the Olympic message?

By: MATT JONES | June 19, 2012

Review: Max Payne 3

Max Payne's bloody Brazilian getaway
Max Payne 3 makes video-game violence mean something again.

By: MITCH KRPATA | June 15, 2012

Crossword: ''GQ Poseurs''

So not what they seem.
So not what they seem.

By: MATT JONES | June 12, 2012

Review: The Walking Dead: Episode 1

Dead reckoning
Halfway between a traditional point-and-click adventure game and a Heavy Rain -style interactive fiction, the central aim of The Walking Dead is to put players in impossible situations with no good outcome.

By: MITCH KRPATA | June 08, 2012

Crossword: ''Pretty Cheesy''

But not quite the same
But not quite the same.

By: MATT JONES | June 07, 2012

Review: Diablo 3

Always on
Where is your copy of Diablo 3 ? It's not on your computer. It never will be. It is in the cloud, with all its virtual spoils streaming live over the Internet.

By: MADDY MYERS | June 03, 2012

Crossword: ''Metal on Metal''

What's that sound?
What's that sound?

By: MATT JONES | May 30, 2012

Crossword: ''Special K''

It's good for you.
It's good for you.

By: MATT JONES | May 23, 2012

Review: Trials Evolution

On the right track
Trials Evolution is a game about launching dirt bikes off sweet jumps, gunning for record-breaking times, and occasionally doing backflips. It's like a modern-day Excitebike .

By: MITCH KRPATA | May 15, 2012

Crossword: ''Triple Billing''

What if these bands played together?
What if these bands played together?

By: MATT JONES | May 16, 2012

Crossword: Stretch Those Quads!

A hardcore freestyle workout
A hardcore freestyle workout.

By: MATT JONES | May 09, 2012

Crossword: ''Count On Us''

No matter where you are.
No matter where you are.

By: MATT JONES | May 01, 2012

Crossword: ''Let's Go Sigh-Seeing''

We won't miss a thing.
We won't miss a thing.

By: MATT JONES | April 24, 2012

HBO's Veep needs more mean

Soft serve
Reality, right now, is so absurd that almost everyone has already adopted a "laugh-to-keep-from-crying" approach to the news. We don't need someone to tell us how truly horrifying our political landscape is. So what's a satirist to do?

By: RYAN STEWART | April 23, 2012