Colin Chisholm

Sometimes a game works so well, the images so beautiful, controls so perfect, you can’t help but sit there with a stupid grin on your face and let it happen to you. The latest in Nintendo’s titular Mario Kart series accomplishes this almost instantly. I knew as I was literally driving on clouds, with the […]

The latest installment continues the tradition of bringing the beloved trading card game to the virtual space. For 2014, the game is smoother and easier to use with exciting new decks and creatures to play with. The brutally long loading times of previous versions aren’t as taxing, and everything flows with a little more ease, […]

You might be getting sick of Assassin’s Creed, and I don’t blame you. Another guy in a white hood stalking and killing Templars—who cares? Luckily, Black Flag mixes up the formula enough to really invigourate the series. Set during the golden age of piracy in the Caribbean, you play as Edward Kenway, who grapples with […]

You show up at your parents’ home after returning from a flight abroad, but nobody’s there. It’s up to you to find out what’s happened by examining clues and diary entries left behind by the occupants, your family. Although it may sound like the set-up to a thriller, Gone Home is a first-person interactive adventure […]

Mario who? Despite multiple releases in 2013, Nintendo’s plumber platformers Mario and Luigi haven’t reached the heights that Ubisoft’s limbless hero Rayman has. Rayman Legends takes running and jumping, flips it on its head and injects a beautiful style that saturates the senses. From placid early levels to enraging challenging stages later on, this is […]

The game where “you gotta catch ’em all” is back and its finest form in years. Gone are the 2D sprites of yesteryear—in their place, fully fleshed out characters and a world worth exploring. The story is what you’ve come to expect, if you’ve played any Pokémon game before. Starting as a budding trainer, you […]

Perhaps one of the most unusually entertaining launch games for the WiiU’s eShop (also available on Mac and PCs), Little Inferno is a fascinating art project as much as it is a game.The entire experience is set in front of a fireplace, in which the user burns things like toys, food or completely unexpected objects. […]

Mario’s back again to help kick off Nintendo’s shiny new console, however instead of coming off as a stale rehash as New Super Mario Bros. 2 did on the 3DS, this platformer introduces fresh new ideas that reinvigorate the tried and true formula. This is another 2D Mario game—so you’ll be running and jumping on […]

Rayman Jungle Run takes the beautiful hand-drawn art style of Rayman Origins and puts it on your phone or tablet. It’s not quite as deep as the console experience, but it’s still worth that app store gift card your aunt gave you for Christmas. Rather than moving around the environment as you please, Rayman is […]

With a different take on the tower defense genre, Amazon’s first foray into making games is fun, if you’re playing on a tablet and not a phone. The goal of the game is to fight back waves of enemies attempting to reach your base on a set path. But instead of building towers strategically in […]