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Jim Rossignol has a great take today on why he wants to play Day Z, XCOM, and FTL so much more than Dishonored: the more ways there are to fail, the more invested he becomes in a game. Novelists and scriptwriters have understood this trick for years: piling problems on to the protagonist, in as many
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We here at Kill Screen international HQ were fondly recalling our halcyon Doom days (the Doom 3 rerelease came out last week), when the subject of the ending to the first game came up. For me, this was the most terrifying and memorable moment in the entire series. Speaking of which, MR HONEY BUNNNN
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I dare you to watch this without being tantalized. What’s that you say? This doesn’t excite you? Well stop reading my website, Mom. I’ll call you later, but you’re embarassing me in front of my friends.
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Peter Molyneux, the legendary English game developer, is known as much for what his games don’t deliver as for what they do. The maker of Theme Park and Black and White and Dungeon Keeper famously promises a revolution from each of his games, then castigates himself after the titles inevitably fall
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Tomorrow’s release of the mega-violent top-down shooter Hotline: Miami won’t generate much controversy, and the reason why is Grand Theft Auto. I’m not talking about Hot Coffee. Before CJ and before Tommy Vercetti, there was the manic bird’s-eye joyride of the first GTA, and the storm-of-the-century
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I will always say this: – – – When I mean this: And vice-versa. And it is annoying. Does anyone else have this problem?
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What’s funner than any videogame, and almost as fun as a zipline? That’s right: a TRAMPOLINE. Some French geniuses have built a trampoline bridge over the Seine, and the children of France (and children at heart of France) are currently rejoicing, in midair, and HEY CHECK IT OUT I’M DOING A BACKFLIP
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Reintroducing The Redistricting Game, a triumphant mix of civic engagement and game design.
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James Fallows, eminence grise at The Atlantic, has probably never played XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Today, however, he linked to a real-time cyberattacks map made by the security concern Honeypot (FYI a “honey trap” is a dummy server made to look like exploitable by hackers, in order to catch them). It lo
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The founder of Electronic Arts, the amusingly-named Trip Hawkins, predicts a slow decline for console gaming: It’s going to become a smaller market, and it’s going to be more like a hobby market. You look at airplanes. Most of us just want to be a passenger, but there’s a hobby market for people who
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There was a lot to see at the biggest weekend in indie gaming. These games stood out, for better or worse.
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We played the alien-invasion management sim for five hours. Other than “it rules”, here are some things you should know.