Video Game Review: NBA Playgrounds

Like Jam, NBA Playgrounds is two-on-two arcade-style action. Rather than selecting a team, though, you’re free to choose any two players that you’ve unlocked. From there you’ll enter tournaments to face sets of two-man teams. These ascend in difficulty, concluding with a “boss” team that contains better players. Take them down and you’re on to the next one.

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Video Game Review: Full Throttle Remastered

Sometimes it’s difficult to solve a puzzle because the object involved is literally just outside of the screen — as in, you have to walk there to trigger a scroll and there’s no real impetus to do so. You’ll also get in the occasional adventure-game grind of trying to use every object in your inventory to solve a particular puzzle, though Full Throttle isn’t nearly as migraine-inducing as some other titles from the era.

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Video Game Review: The Walking Dead — A New Frontier, Episode 4

The Walking Dead in all formats has become synonymous with “jerky people doing bad things to nice people.” Sometimes this plays out for a gripping story about humanity. Other times, it’s a bit of masochistic narrative. TellTale’s latest episode is somewhere in the middle, and there are several different variables at play here.

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Video Game Review: Styx: Shards of Darkness

The Dark Souls series is lauded for its exacting, punishing gamelplay. Styx tends to follow that strict formula, where stealth is essentially the only option. This is not like Assassin’s Creed or Metal Gear Solid in which you can muscle your way through; very rarely will prolonged fights do much for you, and the much-improved AI will find you more often than not.

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