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Tempus fugit

Braid goes in search of lost time
What if you could do things over again?

By MITCH KRPATA | August 26, 2008

Championship Calibur

The soul still burns for a select few
Ten years ago, you couldn’t take a step through the electronics department without knocking over a stack of crappy fighting games.

By MITCH KRPATA | August 19, 2008

Follow the leader

Geometry Wars 2 shoots and scores
What makes a man lust for the high score?

By MITCH KRPATA | August 12, 2008

Fantastic voyage

A classic RPG gets made over
This is a nostalgia trip worth taking.

By RYAN STEWART | August 04, 2008

Dream on

Aerosmith can’t make Guitar Hero sing again
It is somehow fitting that the Guitar Hero series should follow the trajectory of the countless rock bands who achieve too much success too soon.

By MITCH KRPATA | July 28, 2008

Civil service

Sid Meier brings Revolution to the people
The upshot of all this building and scheming is that you can turn Paris into an Aztec city and settle Fyodor Dostoevsky in Tenochtitlan.

By RYAN STEWART | July 21, 2008

Back to the future

A new generation of Space Invaders
Of all the things to love about games, the best is when one comes out of nowhere to knock you upside the head.

By MITCH KRPATA | July 15, 2008

Tour bust

The wheels come off for Guitar Hero
It’s more pleasant than being eaten by a T. Rex.

By MITCH KRPATA | July 08, 2008

War of words

The final Metal Gear Solid doesn’t go down quietly
“War has changed,” Solid Snake tells us, both at the beginning and at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots . He would know.

By MITCH KRPATA | July 01, 2008

Block party

Indiana Jones goes Lego
Somehow I missed out on the whole Lego video-game universe.

By AARON SOLOMON | June 24, 2008

Bourne to lose

Action, but no thrills, in this Conspiracy
The Bourne Conspiracy is a video game not directly based on the Bourne films starring Matt Damon — a fact its makers have taken great pains to obscure.

By MITCH KRPATA | June 10, 2008

Inherit the wind

The Wii’s first original, downloadable content
One of the most exciting aspects of this console generation has been each platform’s approach to downloadable content.

By MITCH KRPATA | June 03, 2008

Sex, violence and video games

Reconciling the irreconcilable
Popular culture has always had a bogeyman. These days, it’s most often video games being accused of leading the nation’s youth astray.

By MITCH KRPATA | April 23, 2008