Child of Eden is an experience. Yes, on a base level it’s a game, but it’s not the mechanics or progression that you’re really getting into this for. It’s visceral, it’s immersive, and it’s… maybe not everyone’s cup of tea. READ MORE
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The new Guardian Heroes doesn’t make the best first impression. You may have already heard preview grumblings from players and fans deriding the new visual filters, and even when you run the game for the first time, the interface is a mess, the combat’s a bit strange and the game doesn’t help you figure out either one. You’ll feel compelled to turn off the game and never play it again.
Fight that compulsion. READ MORE
While we may never see another true Marble Madness game again, we do have a few alternatives that might satisfy fans of that ball-rolling arcade classic. Not into monkeys in plastic balls? No problem! Mercury Hg is here to help. It’s a downloadable sequel to the Mercury Meltdown series, and it expands on the formula while still managing to keep the core concepts feeling fresh. READ MORE
Orcs Must Die! is an action tower defense game where you play as a recently slain warmage’s apprentice, charged with defending valuable castles and keeps. The apprentice both sets the towers and traps and engages in combat personally, in the midst of the fray. There are very few other games with this formula (like Lock’s Quest, Trenched and Sanctum) and there are a lot of things that can go wrong in a game like this. It’s difficult to find tower defense games that are appropriately balanced, challenging, and controlled. It seems most either have an unfriendly interface or towers that worthless and a handful that you can stick with consistently. READ MORE
The newly-released Tetris Axis isn’t Tetris‘ first foray into 3D portable gaming. In fact, it’s not the second, either. The Virtual Boy saw what remain the best and worst 3D entries of the series: the horrible 3D Tetris and the wonderful (but Japan-only) V-Tetris.
If V-Tetris represents the pinnacle of 3D-enabled Tetris and 3D Tetris defines the lowest depths, Tetris Axis is at the middle point of the Tetris axis. READ MORE
