Ryan Kuo

Review: Bumpy Road

An endless game doubles as a meditation on love. Just don’t run out of gas, or drive into a hole in the ground. We review Simogo’s latest, Bumpy Road.

Review: Air Supply

Cheap and easy iPhone games are a dime a dozen. How do they affect us on a deeper level if they’re meant as distractions? Quantum Sheep’s monochromatic space jumper tackles the dilemma head on.

Review: Battleheart

Lovely. I love watching Battleheart move. Because screenshots on Touch Arcade make the thing look like shovelware, but it’s lovely in motion. The knight pokes an orc with his stubby sword and the orc flops onto his back and blinks in and out of oblivion.

To Click or to Click

“What does the Like icon really communicate?” As teenagers we spoke in likes. We would articulate our thoughts about a new interest, and we would fail. We used the word “like” to cover up our mistakes. This Radiohead album is like, like, um, kind of a—it’s like, you know, those electronic undercurr