Early on in Ninja Gaiden 3, stoic ninja Ryu Hayabusa squares off against an enemy who wears a Guy Fawkes mask and…

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The defining SSX moment—whistling toward earth while breakdancing on a wafer of fiberglass as Run DMC sings “It’s…

Puzzlejuice
Creator: Colaboratory
Platforms: iPhone/iPad (Universal Binary)
Played on: iPad
Price: $1.99
There are…

‪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 objective of Need For Speed: The Run is compelling: Finish first in a 200-driver, 3,000-mile road trip from San…

Since 1998, each Legend Of Zelda game has felt like a cockeyed do-over of the best Zelda of them all: Ocarina Of Time…

Mercury Hg
Creator: Ignition Entertainment
Platforms: PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Played on: Xbox 360
Price: $5
Like its…

Gamers are a story-starved lot. Case in point: the success of 2009’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Its zippy storyline…

id Software—creator of Doom and Quake—doesn’t make many games, so on the rare occasion when it does, it’s a bona…

Criterion Games made car-crashing into a veritable art form with 2004’s Burnout 3: Takedown, which boldly asked…

What was once a bonus mode included with the console games Resident Evil 3, 4, and 5 has now graduated to full-game…

For more than a decade now, Tetsuya Mizuguchi has created his uniquely artful, marginally successful videogames,…

Ambia
Creator: Ian Snyder
Platform: Browser
Price: Free
Ambia is slightly reminiscent of old, old puzzle-action games…

Two kinds of racing games currently dominate the genre: the gas-brake-honk kind, and the…

The second installment in the Shift franchise again tries to position itself as the Switzerland of racing games.…

Great champions like Manny Pacquiao still roam the earth, and great fights still occur, but boxing died a small,…

Isaac Clarke, the central character from 2008’s Dead Space, is sadistically forced to relive the nightmare he…

Grand Mystic Quest Of Discovery
Creator: Hulahulahest
Platform: Browser
Price: Free
Grand Mystic Quest Of Discovery…

Anyone interested in seeing what multiplayer-centric games used to look like, and more importantly, what they played…