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A loving hybrid of Populous and Lemmings, From Dust is a slick, strange adventure that falls somewhere in between the Puzzle and God Game genres. That unusual pairing is matched with equally unique visuals and gameplay; tiny tribesmen with Katamari masks mill around as you, some sort of landscaping demigod, …

Spirits are low in this 1949 Ealing classic in more ways than one: on the Hebridean island of Todday, the whisky has run out and glum faces are everywhere. When a ship laden with booze is wrecked off the coast, the parched islanders scramble to salvage what they can. Standing …

Price: $2.99 Size: 36 Blocks First Released: 1997 Well before the Game Boy even existed, Nintendo%26rsquo;s LCD Game %26amp; Watch handhelds were considered the top choice for portable gaming %26ndash; and the built in alarm clocks were handy too. But with only one game included per handheld unit, it was …

Maybe it was the point when Vincent Brooks, Catherine%26rsquo;s protagonist, grew ram horns from the back of his head. Or maybe it was when we had to ascend a series of seemingly unending blocks to escape a mutant infant that was spewing chainsaws from its mouth. The thing is, we …

Price: $2.99 Size: 32 Blocks First Released: 1989 Whacking a ball around with a paddle in hopes of breaking stuff is an age-old pursuit, and dusting off this Game Boy launch title reminds us of how much fun a decent block breaking game can be – even if it doesn’t …

An impressionistic, heavily improvised portrait of a working-class suburban Baltimore community, in which a teenager has recently died of a heroin overdose. Featuring mostly non-professional actors, Putty Hill mixes fiction with documentary devices (such as characters responding to an unseen interviewer). There’s little in the way of story; director Matt …

A young teacher from Sarajevo is caught up in the horrors of ethnic cleansing during the ’90s war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in this powerful debut from Irish director Juanita Wilson. Imprisoned at a makeshift detention camp, Samira (Natasha Petrovic) is gang-raped by her captors before coming under the ‘protection’ of a …

It’s always weird to see a “hardcore” PC series get transmogrified into a console-friendly title, and always a little bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s great to see new moneymaking opportunities for a quality series that deserves some revenue, but on the other, it sucks to see that same series …

There are very few instances where it’s perfectly acceptable to fall asleep in the middle of playing a videogame.24 hour marathonscome to mind, as doesforced prison torture (opens in new tab). Though you may not see it, the commonality between those two examples is that the player has a greater …

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