Games with James
James MastromarinoA quick weekly roundup of my work editing NPR's Gaming coverage and producing NPR's Here & Now.
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Review: Yoshi and the Mysterious Book — fun with field biology!
A talking encyclopedia invites me to catalog the many creatures tumbling through its pages. My crew of candy-colored Yoshis can freely enter and exit this magical domain — Baby Bowser and the hapless Kamek he’s saddled with are stuck inside...
Review: Wax Heads preaches wholesome punk resistance
Somehow I’ve swerved into reviewing games about music this year, from Unbeatable to People of Note to Mixtape. Wax Heads, also out this month, combines punk and pop beats with gameplay not far removed from Strange Antiquities, a 2025 favori...
Review: Mixtape is this year's Dispatch
I’m on vacation in California this week, introducing my new baby to old stomping grounds. Mixtape — a pithy slice-of-life adventure starring three delinquents in the 1990s Pacific Northwest — could not have hit me at a more nostalgic time....
Saros Review: The King in Yellow and Me
Saros made me feel like a king, like a god. I crested its final boss in a euphoric crescendo of violence — zipping around its maddeningly dense attacks as I slammed it with bullets. I’d followed Arjun Devraj’s maniacal quest to its breaking...
Review: Titanium Court is an absurdist masterpiece masquerading as a match-3 strategy game
AP Thomson, the indie auteur partially responsible for last year’s incomparable Consume Me, has a new game.
Titanium Court is hard to describe, though it’s built from familiar mechanics that have flooded mobile gaming. It’s a match-3 stra...
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