Game Reviews7.9/10
MLB 15: The Show Review: A Bridge Year with One Lasting Idea
MLB 15: The Show review: year-to-year saves from MLB 14, 30 legend cards, the same broadcast booth, a Vita farewell, and a 7.9 of 10.
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Game Reviews7.9/10
Skullgirls’ hand-drawn fighting still holds up, but its small roster caps the ceiling
Skullgirls review: the 2012 hand-drawn fighting game's tag-team combat, Dark Deco world, thin launch roster, and long life across ports and DLC.
Game Reviews7.2/10
Titan Souls Review: One Arrow, One Hit Point, and the Puzzle That Holds
Titan Souls review: Acid Nerve's 2015 one-arrow, one-hit boss rush, its Soulslike legacy, and how Death's Door refined the formula. Score: 7.2/10.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Falcom’s Vita Action RPG Still Hasn’t Found a Reason to Exist Beyond Its Original Platform
Tokyo Xanadu, Falcom's 2015 Vita action RPG, splits high school life and Eclipse combat. A 7.3/10 game with a strong cast and a real identity problem.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Downwell Still Justifies the Price of a Vita
Downwell review: Moppin's gunboot roguelike is one of the cleanest action games ever made, and a deliberate, confident 7.8 out of 10.
Game Reviews7.2/10
A tiny figure cranks a giant machine in a wordless puzzle-platformer that trusts you to work it out
Hob, Runic Games' final wordless action-adventure, tells a dying planet's story through environment alone. A review of its puzzles, combat and lore rooms.
Game Reviews7.5/10
Co-op shooter Livelock still holds up a decade later
Livelock, Tuque Games' 2016 twin-stick co-op shooter, reviewed: three platforms, a Diablo-shaped loop, and a solid 7.5 out of 10.
Game Reviews8/10
Darkwood Review: A Survival Horror That Refuses to Explain Itself
Darkwood review: Acid Wizard Studio's top-down survival horror traps you in a cursed Polish forest where day means scavenging and night means defending. 8/10.
Game Reviews7.6/10
A Space Station Puzzle Game Where the AI Is the Only One Talking Sense
The Turing Test review: Bulkhead's first-person puzzler on Europa pairs human intuition with AI logic, and asks who you'd kill to keep a secret.
Game Reviews7.5/10
This spaceship AI takes your typing personally, and that is the whole game
Event[0] strands you on a broken leisure ship with only an AI named Kaizen-85 for company. A review of the 2016 typing-driven sci-fi game.
Game Reviews7.8/10
Knights and Bikes Review: Two Girls, One Island, and the Co-op That Carries It
Knights and Bikes is a co-op action adventure from Foam Sword, built for two players on a hand-drawn island. It scores 7.8 of 10.
Game Reviews7.4/10
Graceful Explosion Machine Review: A Sharp, Small Arcade Shooter That Runs Out of New Tricks
Graceful Explosion Machine review: Vertex Pop's Switch shooter with a quad-weapon array, dash combos and jewel-hued worlds, scored 7.4 out of 10.