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By Nick Simberg, August 19, 2013 0 VG Review

When I first played Ibb & Obb a few months ago at E3, I was charmed. It’s this side-scrolling platform game with a little green guy and a little pink guy (slightly taller) and two gimmicks. One: you control each… Read More »

By Nick Simberg, July 30, 2013 0 VG Review

I did not enjoy playing Capsized. On paper, it sounds fine, if unremarkable. It started off as a Commander Keen-esque, side-scrolling, shooty platformer with floaty jumps, questionable grab physics, too-quick deaths, and a very limited palette of enemies and environments…. Read More »

By Nick Simberg, July 14, 2013 0 VG Review

Xbox LIVE Arcade was once the premier place for little indie games with big ideas to flourish. Limbo. Braid. Trials HD. Super Meat Boy. Now, Microsoft’s fragmentation of its own online marketplace in the wake of numerous dashboard updates –… Read More »

By Nick Simberg, November 4, 2012 0 VG Review

ThunderCats is the handheld game tie-in to a dead show on a dead platform. What could go wrong? The ThunderCats TV show reboot was, by most accounts, pretty good. Despite that, Cartoon Network decided to not renew the show for… Read More »

By Nick Simberg, October 18, 2012 0 VG Review

One Piece: Pirate Warriors is the most Japanese game I’ve ever played. Bright colors, loud yelling coming at you from all sides, over-the-top anime antics/actions/attacks… It’s everything that the uninitiated gaijins lump together as “that Dragon Ball Z stuff” before… Read More »