Category Archives: Game Reviews

I Heart Chaos: Cloud Assassin

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Meg

From my newest piece on iheartchaos (Just a reminder,  my posts here are totally worksafe,  but this site is not entirely PG. Ahem.) The new Cloud Assassin smartphone game makes the dorm (and boring workplace) game mobile and accessible. Playerscan … Continue reading →

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Socks, Inc.

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Meg

Socks, Inc. was one of the local games demoed at last week’s NYGaming. Socks, Inc. is a supercute AR game. Players create a sock puppet character, and set off to do real-world challenges, like snapping a picture of your sock … Continue reading →

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Red Bull Augmented Racing

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Meg

When the demo for Red Bull augmented racing began at NYGaming‘s local games demo, I was just getting warmed up for a rant on how much I hate branded games. Corporate sponsorship almost always means a mediocre casual game, minus … Continue reading →

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Droid Odyssey on Indie Game Mag

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Meg

New review of Droid Odyssey up on Indie Game Mag: I want the Droid app market to take off. I want there to be as many wild indie games for my Droid as for my friends’ iPhones, all organized into … Continue reading →

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Zeitheist

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Meg

I’ve got a new post up on I Heart Chaos about Zeitheist.  (Warning: I Heart Chaos is not entirely safe for work. Ahem.) Zeitheist, which demoed last night at NYGaming at AOL Ventures, is a new web-based Twitter meta-game. The … Continue reading →

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Deep Sea

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Meg

When I was in Austin for SxSW, I got the chance to check outsome amazing indie games at Screenburn, and I wrote up my reaction to Deep Sea, over at Indie Game Mag: Deep Sea, Robin Arnott’s terrifying sound-based undersea … Continue reading →

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Crayon Physics

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Meg

Before settling down to create the full length Crayon Physics Deluxe, Petri Purho, of the one-man game studio Kloonigames, wrote one minigame a month. You can really see that creativity and adaptability in the finished Crayon Physics. Each level of … Continue reading →

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Pretending To Be A Vampire

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Meg

I’m chatting about text-based Choice of the Vampire over on RoboAwesome: CotV asks players a lot of questions about their goals for their, uh, un-life. Do you want to create lasting art, find true love, rise to the top of … Continue reading →

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MyTribe’s New Mystery

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Meg

So my favorite Facebook game, MyTribe recently added sending gifts and begging for gifts, and that’s pretty much the day I lost interest in the game. It was extra frustrating because there were so many great ways MyTribe could have … Continue reading →

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The Daring Game For Girls

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Meg

When I wasn’t teaching or running around Manhattan with packs of teenagers, I checked out The Daring Game For Girls on the DS. I know this is the girl-player stereotype, but I just can’t overstate how important a customizable avatar … Continue reading →

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