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What is the concept? The impetus behind the original Joe Danger began on a serendipitous lark, as the team at Hello Games unearthed an antiquated Evel Knievel stunt cycle. Anyone who has ever seen the ...

In anticipation of this week’s new publishing efforts, players would be wise to dust off their idle hardware. Between the releases of four of Kinect-based titles and a trio of new Wii games, neglected peripherals ...

Across nearly two decades, developers have been shoehorning stealth mission into games not designed around furtiveness. Whether tasking Young Link with sneaking past soldiers in Ocarina of Time or having players skulk around the habitually ...

While fighting game purists have consistently championed Street Fighter’s ubiquitous output and advocated for Virtua Fighter’s often byzantine brawling, I’ve always fancied the Tekken series. The first arcade cabinet lured me in with unabashed quirk, ...

As both time and the death of Guitar Hero have shown, the Rock Band franchise is the king of the music game genre. From fully-functional guitars and basses to a working laser light show and ...

PC gamers often espouse the advantages of a mouse and keyboard control method. Yet, for players accustomed to the ergonomics of a console controller, using a piece of equipment intended for crafting memoranda can create ...

This week’s new releases sustain their domination of digital channels, thanks to a number of high profile releases such as Joe Danger: The Movie, Jet Set Radio HD, and Wayforward’s re-imagining of Billy and Jimmy ...

Preceding the launch of Pinball FX 2 onto Xbox Live, developer Zen Studios referred to their steel ball simulation as a “platform”, rather than use a more orthodox descriptor such as “game”. For some critics, ...

What is the concept? As both the Wiimote and Microsoft’s Kinect peripheral have demonstrated, motion-sensing devices have helped the mini-game genre to proliferate. Similarly, Sony’s Move controller has spurned an assemblage of wand-waggling titles, from ...

Beyond offering diverging schemes for galactic domination, this week we also offer impressions of Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII, Chopper I, The Next Space, New Super Mario Bros. 2, Papo & Yo, Counterstrike: Global Offensive, ...