2D-X’s Games of Summer retrospective continues with a look back at the Donkey Kong Country series, a game that brought three brothers together during school recess.

If you haven’t played Psychonauts, I’m only going to say this once. Play it as soon as you possibly can. If you care even a little bit about video games as art or story telling devices, you need to play Psychonauts.

Scribblenauts is not a good game. The controls are absolutely maddening. All movement is controlled by the touch screen, and that wouldn’t be so bad if every other action in the game (save moving the camera) weren’t also controlled by the very same tiny surface. You combine these controls with a physics system that would [...]

The sad truth about Team17′s Worms series is that it is somewhat stagnant. At one time, it was a fun, innovative turn-based strategy game, but I can’t recall being particularly excited about the series at all since Worms Armageddon. In the ten years since then, seven Worms games (nevermind the spin-offs) have been released, and [...]

I missed out on a lot of great games, growing up. Either because I didn’t have the right console or because I was a stupid kid and was way more interested in miscellaneous crap. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of excellent games that I have never even touched – – I don’t think I’m [...]