Jackbox Games is no stranger to the party genre: the company’s largest success, You Don’t Know Jack, has persisted for years in various formats, jumping from PC to consoles to Facebook as times changed but still delivering a very specific sort of trivia experience. And it’s just that: lots of people can make trivia games, but it’s the Jackbox style and sense of pace and humor that makes it stand out. With Fibbage, the company’s latest creation, it seeks to apply that knowledge to a similarly well-worn party game idea: trying to fool your friends. READ MORE
No Goblin’s debut title, Roundabout, is about navigating tricky paths in an unorthodox fashion, and so, it seems, was the game’s development. It tries to balance the dumb fun of its world and narrative with some truly exacting mechanics, and it succeeds if you’re willing to approach each aspect in its own time.
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Until this point, the Super Smash Bros. series has been almost entirely defined by its local multiplayer experience. Sure, there have been single-player modes, and sure, Brawl had online play, but the true focus has always been on jumping in and battling it out with a friend or three on the couch. Almost out of necessity, this new 3DS entry of Super Smash Bros. shifts that focus to something more personal, something more customized and about reaching goals on your own.
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It feels as if the world of games is catching up with the Multitap vision lately. It’s great, right? Games are just more fun if you can play them with friends in the same room, and more and more developers are taking advantage of this by making titles specifically designed for this context. This is especially true with games that support more than four players. A niche that was previously catered to only by a handful of games over the years has seen a full batch of interesting, fun titles in the just over two years since I wrote about them the first time. Let’s take a look at the best of them! READ MORE
This week marked 15 years since the Sega Dreamcast’s U.S. launch, so we decided to celebrate by returning to the little white box! We play Crazy Taxi, ChuChu Rocket!, SoulCalibur and San Francisco Rush 2049, and chat about The Walking Dead‘s divisive second season, the excitement of Smash Bros. news, Gang Beasts, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright and more.
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