Chris Dahlen's posts

The Wii looks like a toy for grown-ups. Where the Nintendo DS was built like a pencil case, and the GameCube's…

Computer role-playing games fall into two camps. Fans of titles like Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion want open-ended…

The general gripe against Family Guy is that it's all jokes, no story. And that formula of wisecracks and sight gags…

Samurai Warriors 2 is an experiment in how many times a rat will hit a lever before it gets sick of the pellets. The…

Parents today are so scared that bullies will beat up their kids, or that their bully kids will beat up a member of…

The loneliest place in history must be the control room deep in a NORAD bunker. There, a computer terminal tracks a…

You've gotta wonder about the kind of person who wants to run a simulated prison—someone whose fantasy is to build…

Stilwater isn't a great city. Cruising its streets and alleys, you'll see a full-scale metropolis fleshed out from…

1. The Eaton-Moog Multiple-Touch-Sensitive Keyboard

Jennifer, the dirty, filthy, unlucky girl at the heart of Rule Of Rose, has as much freedom as a puppet on a string.…

In NinjaBee's Outpost Kaloki X, style won out over substance: The production team wrapped a simple tycoon game in…

When Ninety-Nine Nights takes off, it's epic: You're leading troops against wave upon wave of twisted monsters,…

Can you act fast and be cautious? ArkLight pulls at two sides of your instincts: You're flying a glowing,…

By sticking you in the driver's seat, a game can make you sympathize with almost anybody, including the…

From the title, you might expect cloven-hooved truckers with flaming arm hair, biker chicks in spiked leather…

So why is the hero of Prey a modern-day Cherokee? Because Native Americans carry a mighty, mystical heritage, as…

Video games rarely leave room for the imagination. Back in the day, when a blockbuster movie spawned a line of…

Eets scores on two levels: the basic game mechanics, and the eye-poppingly cute design wrapped around it. This…

You'll never set foot in Perplex City—not in person, and not even in a video game. You've been tasked with solving…

If you treat a game's backstory as nothing more than an excuse to kill people, you're going to miss out on the…