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If there was a “Most Sultry” category at the BAFTA or AIAS awards, he would definitely win. The former Tony! Toni! Toné frontman is teaming up with sound engineer Chuck Burngardt: “He went to school to develop games, he’s a programmer,” Saadiq tells the BoomBox, of the transformation from mixing an
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Private security forces have shown up in games like Army of Two but this is a tad different considering the firm’s past: Its involvement in Iraq became enough of a controversy that the company renamed itself to Xe in the aftermath. Its employees were involved in shootings later found to be unjustifi
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The fine folks at Snarkmarket pointed to this excerpt from an NPR interview with classical composer Nico Mulhy on the connections between a Nintendo childhood and composition: For me, living in the country, playing a video game was sort of like music minus one: The actions of my hands informed, in a
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It’s E3 so there’s a lot of news floating around. Here’s the important stuff. –Halo 4, Fable: The Journey, Battlefield 3 announced -Sony unveils PlayStation Vita handheld. –Far Cry 3 trailer. –Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim gameplay trailer. –BioShock Infinite teaser. –Fruit Ninja, MineCraft come to Kinect
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Kill Screen was chosen as one of TIME's best blogs of 2011
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PAUSE: Vectral tennis.
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Jim Blackhurst works at Square Enix and collects data and metrics for player behavior. The above video is a creation he rendered from more than 11 million player deaths in Just Cause 2.
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Tetris is gunning for the Peanuts model of brand ubiquity: When it began early 30 years ago, Tetris quickly became one of the most popular video games sold. Now, the Tetris Company, which owns the Tetris brand, says it plans to expand beyond videogames and soon hopes to introduce dozens of new Tetri
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Street Pass is this nifty feature on the Nintendo 3DS that lets the device automatically exchange information with other devices while you’re walking. So naturally that works best when everyone’s doing it. Nintendo is making it easier for you with a global Street Pass day to get people out walking
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Brooklyn Rail takes a closer look at the videogame-inspired art of Cory Arcangel: “My art is anti-technology,” says Arcangel softly, his flecked blue eyes fixed over his computer, as he clicks out of his Twitter feed and into one of his 15 websites. “Even though I spend almost all my waking hours on
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Do you have any stories about George Lucas? Which you can print? Um, maybe. We always had a little bit of this inferiority complex, because we would go to these company meetings and the different groups would present what they’d been doing for the last year. Industrial Light & Magic would go up ther
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