After having actually managed to download Braid, I’m really enjoying it. But when I got really stuck on one of the puzzles in world 2 and looked up an online walkthrough, I found that the official Braid guide says Some of the puzzles will be hard. But when you manage to solve those hard puzzles, […]

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Braid for PC ostensibly releases today. I say ostensibly because earlier today, I logged onto the game’s Steam page, and it said “This game will unlock in approximately 2 hours”. Fine. Good. I logged on a bit later and saw that it said one hour. When it was supposed to release, the message disappeared, but […]

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Closure is a cute little puzzle platformer wherein light is key. You’ll quickly learn that if something is in the dark, it essentially doesn’t exist. In that way, it’s similar to PSN’s Echochrome, which I very much loved. Play Closure

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I’ve been avoiding listing browser games in the Free Game Friday feature, but I’m beginning to see that without using at least the odd browser game here and there, I have no chance of finding enough good titles. Fantastic Contraption is a very cool physics-based puzzle game wherein you need to assemble wheels and spokes […]

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I’ve been playing games for a long time. As a kid, I played Pong at my next door neighbor’s house on his pong machine, before he ever got ColecoVision. I played Crazy Kong on the old arcade machine at the Cumberland Farms on Rt 69 where I used to buy Chocodiles. And I played the […]

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S.T.A.C.K.E.R. is a bit of an odd game: a Tetris knockoff masquerading as a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. knockoff. But it’s fairly entertaining. The blocks that drop can be enemies, weapons, armor, or other useful or harmful items. It can seem a bit complicated at first, but it’s really not a bad game once you realize what’s going […]

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