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Review: The Magic Toy Chest

Every so often, a gamer can find themselves in the mood for a particular flavor of game, and these effects can be especially pronounced when one finds oneself surrounded by entries of that genre. Between Braid, the announcement of Henry Hatsworth, and next month’s scheduled release of The Fool and His Money, it’s an understatement to say [...]

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Review: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - Homestar Ruiner

I will fully admit that, as a longtime Homestar Runner fan, I was predisposed to enjoy Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People long before I had occasion to actually play it. Now, the game has finally been released for PC and WiiWare by the episodic eccentrics at Telltale Games, and I've finally been able to explore the full experience from front to back. Is it everything we hoped it would be?

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Review: Reset Generation

Back in May, GameCyte attended the unveiling of Nokia’s mysterious “Project White Rock,” a new game for the phone giant’s relaunched N-Gage platform. That game turned out to be Reset Generation, a retro-themed head-to-head puzzle/boardgame/combat mashup which would also be free available, for free, on PC. We later had the chance to play Reset Generation on its [...]

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Review: Off Road (PC)

When it came time to play Off Road, a Ford & Land Rover-branded racing game from Empire Interactive, Xplosiv, and Razorworks, my biggest concern was the level of realism involved. When it comes to racing games, I distinctly prefer an arcade experience over a simulation. I’m not saying Gran Turismo or Forza are bad games by [...]

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WiiWare Wednesday: SPOGS Racing

I feel liberated. For the past several weeks, I’ve reviewed a series of utterly average Wii titles, all of which seemed boring at first but — when I would least expect it — clubbed me over the head with something remotely resembling fun. I’d then feel duty-bound to report these instances of fun, and watch [...]

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Review: Catan Online World

There’s a very good chance that you’ve played — or are, at least, aware of — The Settlers of Catan, a German-born board game which has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. If you’ve played it, you know how clever and fun it is, and if you haven’t, you may remember how excited everybody was [...]

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WiiWare Wednesday: Magnetica Twist

I’m hoping I can go this entire review without saying “The twist is,” or “But there’s a twist!” or “With just a twist of,” or any such obvious quip. I’m also hoping my wrist stops aching soon — Magnetica Twist is a fairly addictive little action-puzzler, controlled entirely through small rotations of the Wiimote. After a [...]

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WiiWare Wednesday: Gyrostarr

This week’s WiiWare offering is Gyrostarr, an on-rails space shooter from High Voltage Software. It represents a fairly clever bit of engineering in its own way — the game’s press release boasts that through clever use of High Voltage’s Quantum3 game engine, Gyrostarr has managed to squeeze 50 procedurally-generated levels into WiiWare’s 40MB size limit. [...]

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WiiWare Wednesday: Block Breaker Deluxe

Here’s a fun experiment you can do at home! Go to Google and search for Arkanoid. You should see some five-dozen free online flash games, each one implementing one or two new wrinkles into the classic brickout-with-powerups archetype. Now, open each one of those games in a new tab, and attempt to play every one [...]

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Review: Don King Presents: Prizefighter

Don King Presents: Prizefighter is a tour de force lesson in gaming, boxing, and—mostly—the pointlessness of human existence.

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