Journey is a marvel, a hallucination of gameplay that feels as deep and immersive as the borderless desert where it…
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Survival-horror games are defined by constraint: In horror, characters are trapped, with no apparent way out.…
Say what you will about Capcom’s reliance on big sellers like the Resident Evil franchise; every once in a while,…
A beautiful sense of movement has always made the SoulCalibur games stand apart from other fighters. More than just T…
We assembled our top-10 list in the usual way. All of the regular contributors to The A.V. Club’s game section made…
The Binding Of Isaac
Creators: Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl
Platforms: Mac, PC
Reviewed on: PC
Price: $4.99
The…
Gears Of War 3 is for a culture that’s lived the past decade against the backdrop of a slogging war. The concluding…
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is a marvellously detailed character-based shooter that combines classic concepts and…
First-person shooters often give players everything: clear paths to victory, unrestrained special powers, and…
Killzone 3 is the first chapter in Sony’s shooter series to arrive without the weight of outrageous expectations.…
In most platforming games, exploration leads to new powers and abilities for the player character. Call that a broad…
GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64 was the game that introduced non-PC gamers to the joy of multi-player shooters.…
Activision is taking the “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach to the nascent DJ Hero franchise. The debut game…
Pundits say the music-game genre is dying. They may even be right. (Nice work, Activision.) But there’s still room…
Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow isn’t a Castlevania game. The series is traditionally a 2-D side-scroller, and while…
The Professor Layton games are like an educator-friendly version of the game industry’s standard role-playing and…
APB: All Points Bulletin sounds like such a great idea. The game wants to take the basic trappings of Grand Theft…
The failure of the videogame Western has often been that they’re mostly just action games reskinned with trappings…
With a focus on celebrity and big tricks, the Tony Hawk skateboarding games emphasized solo skating. But the root of…
War games proliferate in the multiplayer gaming landscape, but the Western is a thinly exploited genre. Enter Lead…