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Scenes from IndieCade: The father of videogames speaks
Steve Russell made Spacewar! half a century ago. He talked to John Romero about his game, and the industry it spawned.
Joseph Bernstein
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The Kill Screen Review: FIFA 13
FIFA 13 will make you a terrible human being. That’s a good thing.
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You can watch tonight’s debate over your Xbox 360
Barack Obama, as we know, is not a fan of the Xbox 360. And yet! If you have Xbox Live, you can watch tonight’s debate, streaming, for free.
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The hero we deserve created the Battle of Hoth in Minecraft
I propose internet rule #4563: whenever a new technology is introduced to the open internet, it will be used to recreate the Battle of Hoth.
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Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc!
Rachel Garber at the Atlantic helps us remember the 30th anniversary of commerically-available audio CD players. Yes, it has been three decades since the invention of the technology that brought us years of joy, spinning inside Playstations and Dreamcasts and, lest we forget, Sega-CDs.
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Chinese gamers furious over World of Warcraft state propaganda
A state-run Chinese television network (with the unbearably ironic name CCTV) broadcast a special called “War of Internet Addiction” which depicts a World of Warcraft player who quits his job and goes bankrupt after he discovers the game. Chinese gamers have characterized the segment, which is below
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Is Bad Piggies Rovio’s first original idea?
Over at Game|Life, Ryan Ringey has some words of encouragement for Rovio, who he thinks have finally dropped their bad habit of taking extant, unpolished games and turning them into profits: Bad Piggies makes it appear as if Rovio wants to be on a different trajectory. Sure, the characters themselve
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The lessons learned from remaking Half-Life
Black Mesa, the fan-made, eight-years-in-the-making update to the fourteen-year-old GOAT contender Half-Life, released earlier this month. Gamasutra talked to project lead Carlos Montero about, among other things, what they brought from Half-Life’s sequels back to the remake of the original: “We act
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Resist gamer stereotypes, reject the Halo 4/Mountain Dew/Doritos tie-in
There is a moment in the seminal Simpsons espisode in which Homer gains hundreds of pounds to go on paid disability, where he is unable to fit into a movie theater seat, and the smarmy theater owner promises, if Homer will “kindly leave”, to “treat you to a garbage bag full of popcorn.” Homer is abo
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What if the presidential election was settled in Mortal Kombat?
Slate asks a most pertinent question. Watch for Romney’s devastating “tax evasion” move and Herman Cain’s “creepy ad” rejoinder. Great stuff.
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The Kill Screen Review: Resident Evil 6, a devastating parable about addiction
It is a harrowing, endless, and unrewarding experience, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
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Sony shocked devs won’t develop for their expensive handheld with no user base
Sony’s surprise that developers don’t want to commit time and resources to developing for a platform that, frankly, is out of touch with the economic and gaming realities of 2012 (no money, lots of cheap options), and is the real surprise in this story. “One thing that was surprising and disappointi