TetriNET is what happens when somebody looks at Tetris and asks a dangerous, extremely 1997 question: what if this neat little puzzle about fitting blocks together were also a small online grudge match, complete with sabotage, revenge, and the kind of social friction that makes friendships develop teeth marks? The original PC release, from St0rmCat, […]

I have a soft spot for games that arrive looking like they spent their budget on charm instead of homework, but I am not so sentimental that I will excuse every joke, puzzle, or pirate flourish just because it comes wrapped in a handsome frame. The Curse of Monkey Island, the third Monkey Island game

The Space Bar is the kind of adventure game that makes me forgive a lot of sins and then immediately demand better behavior from everybody involved. It is a 1997 Windows PC graphical adventure, released on three CDs, and it has the kind of brainy, overstuffed structure that now feels almost indecently confident: a murder