Manila
The Other Arcades
Consoles, piracy, and friendship reign in Manila’s budget arcades.
Kill Screen Staff
Dance Dance Revolution
Dancing King
A man, a jig, and a machine
Tracy Fullerton
Masterful Play
In this adaptation of her mini-talk from the 2009 Game Developers Conference, Tracy Fullerton introduces the concept of “masterful play” and illustrates what it means to players, and their audiences.
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TODAY ON KS: We review L.A. Noire, a game that isn’t what it seems.
What’s with Cole Phelps’s rotten attitude? Maybe it has something to do with living in an inescapable city full of people who are seemingly obsessed with him. Maybe those people represent something he doesn’t want anyone to know. Kirk Hamilton runs through the claustrophobic yet curiously empty L.A.
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Cheat Sheet 5/31: Emulators banned on Android, GameStop honors old Duke Nukem pre-orders
We make getting mainstream videogame news easy for you. Here we go: -Dust off your old receipt because GameStop will honor old Duke Nukem pre-orders. -World rally champion Colin McRae’s name was dropped from Dirt 3. –Gears of War 3 to feature Black Sabbath’s War Pigs. -What is Fusion and why is M
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PAUSE: Infographic brings order to the chaos of videogame movies.
This infographic should handily quash any remaining enthusiasm over videogame movies. Assuming there is any. See the rest of it here. –Lana Polansky
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New algorithm automatically updates your childhood.
Dani Lischinski of Hebrew University and Johannes Kopf of Microsoft have developed an algorithm which automatically re-renders 8- and 16-bit console games with HD graphics. Now, don’t get mad: this could actually make it really easy to enjoy old games while they look good on your new T.V.: While th
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NASA to bring Asteroids to life in 2014…Sort of.
As part of the Obama initiatives to extend space exploration into deep space, NASA will be sending an unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid near Earth, finally bringing Asteroids into the real world. But this mission will be more about research and less about blasting space rocks: Actually, the OSIRIS
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New Zealand parties play politics, literally.
With plenty of time to campaign before the November election, New Zealand opposition parties have taken to using computer games as a way to communicate their platforms to young voters. The Green Party reappropriated Tetris to warn against lignite coal mining, while the Labour Party took a decidely m
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This videogame made by a 5-year-old is almost unbearably cute.
Everyone wishes their parents were this cool. The above screenshot is taken from the start menu of what has got to be the most adorable game of the year so far. Sissy’s Magical Ponycorn Adventure is the result of 5-year-old Cassie’s imagination, and her father Ryan Henson Creighton’s technical assis
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Cheat Sheet 5/30: Jimmy Buffet’s upcoming game, Microsoft’s hacker solution
?Here’s your daily dose of mainstream videogame news. – First details on FIFA 12 available here. – Party this fall on Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville for Facebook and iOS. – Sony might be teasing us with a new game. – Microsoft takes an alternative approach to dealing with a hacker. ?That was easy e
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TODAY ON KS: We ask the creator of Scott Pilgrim about the games that shaped his life.
Pitchfork came up with the 5-10-15-20 idea over two years ago to ask musicians about the music in their lives at five-year intervals. Our recent partnership with Pitchfork lets us do many things, one of which is apply that idea to videogame people. Today, creator of the Scott Pilgrim series, Bryan L