Review by Matt C. “You come at the king, you best not miss.” Aside from being an iconic quote from one of the best characters seen on television to date, that’s evergreen life advice. It’s especially useful for anyone in a creative industry. We all have our influences and every…
Read MoreReview by Jim S. There are a few games out there that mash-up RPG leveling and puzzles, like Puzzle Quest or Puzzle & Dragons. Most of them are match three games, drawing inspiration from Bejewelled, but SwapQuest does something very different and unique; it melds together RPG and Pipe Mania.…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. It is called many things in film and literature; unobtainum and smurf berries to name a couple. Always fictional names, always rare, always powerful. They always have the same purpose, too; these fictional resources exist to put up a mirror and show the great lengths humans…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. The first brain training game, 2006’s Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training for the Nintendo DS, set off a bit of a trend. The fad was based on the assumption, which was usually just hinted at but often claimed outright, that one could make oneself smarter by simply…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. I honestly expected a much darker game from the title of Death Squared, but the newest arrival from Sydney indie developer, SMG Studios, brings puzzle gameplay backed with lots of laughter. It’s a simple puzzle game about getting squares to their end-states. It’s also wickedly difficult.…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. I started dating someone back in early 2007. The relationship seemed doomed from the onset, as another man stole my heart that first year. The love, however, was unrequited, and so I stayed with my boyfriend regardless. In the decade that has followed, my faraway love…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It was inevitable that the Nintendo Switch would eventually get some kind of Threes clone, and Levels+ is definitely a Threes clone. It’s the right kind of console for this kind of puzzle game; it’s the kind of quick, mentally stimulating experience that’s perfect to unwind…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. “You’re a wizard, Harry… And a thumpin’ good one, I’ll wager, once you’ve been trained up a bit and can spell long words with random letters quickly while using a joystick and remembering odd button choices.” Related reading: This actually isn’t the first word RPG on…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. GNOG is delightful. It doesn’t really have a purpose, intent, or reason to exist, and that’s precisely why it’s a delight; it’s an acid trip given form and a playful bit of nothingness that’s really quite hard to put down. Each “level” of GNOG starts life…
Read MoreReview by Moshe R. The magical mystery tour is here, finally, and it took me away. At least that’s The Beatles inspired feeling I experienced as I started playing Vignettes on my iPad, with its very Warhol choice of colour palettes, atmospheric music and minimalistic presentation. As well as it…
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