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DrawQuest is your art-school boyfriend’s latest daily doodle obsession
If anyone knows the secret to building a vibrant and unpredictable community, it must be Christopher Poole. He founded 4chan, a breeding ground for lively discussion, animated GIFS, and political coups that provided a simple, organized way to harness the best and worst of the internet simultaneously
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Will playing handheld games ever translate well to the big screen?
Back in the halcyon days of 1991, a game you played on your television was very, very different than the one you played in your hand. The dominant portable platform, Nintendo’s Game Boy, showed green-scale images that blurred when they moved. Their NES counterparts were relatively crisp, bright, and
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Fire Emblem delay was a double-edged broadsword for Nintendo and its customers
Fire Emblem: Awakening was greatly anticipated at the Kill Screen offices. In fact, it still was until just a few days ago, nearly a week after its official release. Many physical retailers had not received their copies by last Sunday, February 4th, due to a shipping delay. Numerous parties involved
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World’s oldest statue looks familiar
Sega Genesis fans will be delighted to learn one of the system’s premier launch titles goes back long before the arcade original. A carving of a lion with human features that was to be a highlight of the British Museum’s Ice Art show has been found to be much older than initially believed. Analysis
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Wii Street U might just be Nintendo’s Trojan Horse
Nintendo launched the Wii Street U service for their new console last week in Japan. Our old editor Joe wrote about the still-unchristened idea last fall. The free app allows you to browse and use Google Maps on your TV, with one very big twist: You can use the GamePad, the system’s controller-with-
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"Gamers don’t want to read," says head of video-streaming service Twitch TV
Reading is near and dear to our hearts at Kill Screen. I mean, we started a print magazine at a time when such notions were punchlines to jokes more often than serious business plans. So it pains us to imagine a future where the only way to engage with and consider the games we play is by watching a
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Should more games tell us to stop playing and do something else?
The first time I remember seeing a “take a break” message in a game was for Wii Sports. After a set duration of time, a screen popped up between rounds. “Why not take a break?” it said. “You can pause the game by pressing +.” The accompanying image is a stylized freeze-frame of passive aggression: A
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With House of Cards, Netflix is learning what gamemakers have known all along.
Looks like television producers are finally figuring out what videogame companies have known for decades: If you can make something yourself, why buy it from somebody else? – – – House of Cards is a 13-episode drama directed by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey. Twenty years ago, the star powe
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Early footage of Lost Planet 4? Nope, just Boston.
Blizzard “Nemo” battered the east coast overnight on Friday. The governor of Massachusetts enforced an official ban on driving, the first since 1978, with penalties upwards of a year in prison if caught on the roads. Public transit shut down indefinitely. Most schools, stores and businesses shut dow
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The promise of Sony’s rumored Share Button
Sony’s successor to the Playstation 3 is rumored to have a ‘Share Button,’ the exact purpose of which has yet to be disclosed. The assumption is that this will be a seamless way to post screenshots or even video with others online. The growing library of playthroughs on YouTube and the surging popul
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Ever dreamed of running your own arcade? Arcadecraft points the way.
New mediums spend their early years as platforms for what hasn’t yet been possible, gathering material from the unsatisfied impulses of their creator’s brains. Eventually, with enough time and accumulation, the material echoes its very creation. Arcadecraft, a new indie game on Xbox Live where you m