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One Chance
Creator: Awkward Silence Games
Platform: Browser
Price: Free
One Chance has an unimpeachable premise: You…

Is the gaming “awards season” dead? Five of The A.V. Club games writers’ top six games of 2010 were released by the…

It’s widely accepted that PopCap makes addictive casual games, but Bejeweled 3 may be the first that’ll get you…

Maze Of Space
Creator: Petri Purho
Platforms: PC, Mac
Played On: PC
Price: Free
Not long ago, Petri Purho…

Many open-world games have a tough time finding the sweet spot between giving players tasks and planting enough…

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II outs Darth Vader as a serial kidnapper. This time, the princess is Juno Eclipse,…

Civilization V is a throwback to the days when gamers could sit back, survey their situation, and take a goddamn…

Fault Line
Creator: Nitrome
Platform: Browser
Price: Free
Fault Line is yet another puzzle-platformer with…

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi founded the game studio Mistwalker in 2004. He’s still trying to figure out…

Gamers are hunter-gatherers. Monster Hunter Tri, a new online role-playing game from Capcom, targets our innate…

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may have a lock on the console shooter crowd, but that doesn’t keep other games from…

First-Person Tetris
Creator: David Kraftsow
Platform: Browser
Price: Free
Alexey Pajitnov’s Tetris isn’t just a game…

It was a truncated year in games, as publishers pushed their late-2009 releases into the next calendar year. Whether…

It’s no secret that geeks have a special place in their heart for James Cameron’s blue-collar-flavored…

We keep coming back to videogames for the same reasons we always have. Or do we? Games in 2009 look considerably…

Time Donkey
Creator: Blurst Games
Platform: Browser
Price: Free 
The joy of Blurst’s games (like Off-Road…

Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor
Creator: Tiger Style Games
Platform: iPhone/iPod Touch
Price: $2.99
To beat Spider:…

There’s only one truly disappointing aspect to The Beatles: Rock Band: Future games made around your favorite band…

It’s becoming clear that a great game doesn’t need to be a $60, hundred-hour time-sink. Game developers are testing…

Indie game-maker Petri Purho works in short, fast bursts. His blog Kloonigames hosts many examples of his rapid…