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Evan Narcisse
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Video games. Comic books. Blackness.

Best Xbox One Game of 2014's First Half: Super Time Force. So far, this was the game that made me feel the most awed by what the Xbox One can do. Dozens of time-shifted ghost-selves replaying past actions underneath current ones, on a heretofore-unseen scale ? Feels next-gen to me. Read more

Best Wii U Game Of 2014's First Half: Mario Kart 8. The closest thing to a no-brainer so far this year? When/if the Wii U turnaround starts, people will point to the release of the latest Nintendo-built racing game as the release that started it. Read more

As described in the linked post, it sounds like it went from episodic to all-in-one and back to episodic. Read more

Great review, Luke. The dissonance you mention makes me wonder if/when Ubi will use the UbiArt framework to build straight-up cartoons instead of hybrids like this. Read more

Time slows down when you get power-ups or chain reactions but, depending on how you play, that doesn't always happen. Read more

For what it's worth, I'm turning 42 this year. I don't think that pointing out an application could be better designed, streamlined or implemented is only the purview of young people. Yeah, things are way better than they used to be but that doesn't stop this app from feeling under-realized. Read more

Heihachi had to subliminally know that wasn't going to kill him... Read more

For the most part. The story and dialogue are cliched and wooden. Mechanically, it doesn't live up to the freedom it promised, either. Read more

Sort of. I worked at Teen People for eight years. It's where I got my start writing about video games. Read more

what about an AC fitness game, though? With dancing? It'd print money! Read more

This part looks a little bit like a cross between DDR and Rock Band. Read more

That singing... could we be getting French chansons as a follow-up to AC4's sea shanties? Read more