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A Southerner samples the new hunting games from Cabela’s
Our wildlife correspondent Drew Millard gets his hands on a gun and learns the meaning of the word FEARMASTER.
Drew Millard
Review
The Kill Screen Guest Review: U-God of the Wu-Tang Clan plays Borderlands 2
Our reporter tagged along as the most underappreciated member of the Wu-Tang tried out the new shooter.
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Diablo III launch whips expectant fans into expected frenzy.
The Associated Press reports that the frenzied anticipation for the midnight release of Diablo III was insane, because of course it was. Take it away, AP! A crowd of more than 1,500 gathered Monday night around a stage built underneath the Ferris wheel at the Irvine Spectrum Center, located about a
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Wes Anderson inadvertently explains why both adults and children are drawn to games.
In a video interview with Slate, acclaimed director Wes Anderson discussed the similarities he perceives between children and adults: “I see them as not so different. Parents…they’re aware of some risks that the children are not just in tune with at all, but nevertheless they’re dealing with similar
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The games of our childhood, destroyed by dubstep.
Inserting a dubstep drop into a normally perfect innocuous dance song is, as our own Ryan Kuo might put it, sometimes the worst thing ever. But director Ian Robertson takes the form and puts it to expert use in the video for Delta Heavy’s “Get By.” At first, the video is this cute stop-motion thing
Essay
On Answers Withheld
Who is Andrew W. K., and why have we convinced ourselves to chase a mystery? Drew Millard argues our self-deception may be our best way to stay engaged today.
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Andrew W.K. explains why Mars Attacks pinball is so seminal.
I recently interviewed Andrew W.K. for our page over on Pitchfork. In addition to his comments on what he fears most (beasts, obviously), he had a bunch of really enlightening things to say about pinball. What separates a good pinball game from a bad one? Just the layout of that playfield, how the b
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The Tao of Molydeux
Game designers around the world recently gathered to make Peter Molyneux’s unconscious fever dreams—the Twitter account of @petermolydeux—a reality. What we learned was that good jokes are not the same as good ideas.
Review
Space Canary
Angry Birds Space shoots the birds into the stratosphere. But a larger orbit and handful of feathers feel like diminishing returns.
Essay
The Great Punk Experiment
Games are supposedly becoming easier to make, but as our resident punk finds out, not as easy as screaming into a microphone. Can we make a working game? Barring that, a meaningful one?
Essay
Kicking Ice
That folk game about covert Ice packing and assault finally gets its due. Now we can all forget it was a real game.
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How much of a game should you play before you’re "done?"
Dirty secret: I can count the number of games I’ve actually finished on one hand. Okay, I might need a toe or two, but still. This is for a lot of reasons. One, a lot of the games I put serious hours into (sports games, I’m looking at you) are fairly open-ended. Two, who is a game developer to tell