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A game to fight cancer, the cloying taste of Candy Land, and Feist goes holographic
A new print edition of Kill Screen. A new installment of Kentucky Route Zero. And a new full page spread for it in the mag. May is full of awesome!
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Indies crash in, Iwata steps out, and Eve’s secret sauce revealed
Fanfest for an Iceland MMO and Sony shows off their new controll
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Xbox is coming, the zen of Tim Duncan, and the Portal cake is real
Big things!
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Hi-Rise Pong, the Madden Curse turns 25, and "tetronimal ophthalmology"
Who will be the first NFL player to be injured this season?
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GTA 5 gets spiritual, Eve makes bank, and board gaming takes Mumbai
We now know what a first-person shooter looks like when your mouse’s gestures are plotted out (above), thanks to a Redditor named Derpasaurous. “In those days, I believed firmly that the future of computer games was all about AI. That in twenty years time we’d be interacting with NPC characters in c
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Boston exhales, Mario’s questionable block, and Mr. Sim goes west
Last week was rough. Rob Dubbin, Colbert Report contributor (and infrequent Kill Screen scribe) showed how making games in response to tragedy can offer a different kind of catharsis. Friday’s unprecedented manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers ended with the help of thermal imaging, a kind of hea
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Monaco is upon us, a Girl Scout badge for game design, and Minecraft’s creator makes Time’s 100
For the budding new media artist, there’s for(){};, a project that lets you play videogames on acrylic paintings. My only question is where do you plug in the NES pad? We all well know the best Girl Scout cookie is Samoas. But the best Girl Scout merit badge? Easily, game development. Riding the coa
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Luigi goes all over, a sequel to A Link to the Past, and Roberto Bolaño’s maze-like fiction
Today, Nintendo just dumped a bucketload of gaming good news on the nonbelievers. And no, it’s not libation. Crucially, a followup to A Link to the Past, the Legend of Zelda game whose title has got to be one of the worst puns ever, has been announced. The other Nintendo mascot who looks good in gr
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Wii U hits the road, a pasta-maker in Virtual Boy, and the New Yorker weighs guns on-screen
Kill Screen sends thoughts and wishes to all those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. A bit of levity to soothe your frayed nerves: A new Virtual Boy game has been home-brewed for your pleasure, and it’s about making pasta. If time is money, this latest Kickstarter project is worth yours: Le
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The Sims evacuate Facebook, Chernobyl in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and GTA’s radio stations are on Spotify
First off, the New York Review of Books blog considers the connection between Tarkovsky’s Stalker, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series, and Chernobyl. And for extra credit, read our interview with an artist who raided the Zone! “So there I sat in my parents’ living room, playing the game with my mom, sho
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The Beast and SKill face off, a robotic mixologist, and a wild intern appears!
No, Vivan Clark is not a lesser known Woody Allen film. It’s the sublime successor to Kill Screen fave Soda Drinker Pro! Metanet announced they’ve started work on the third game in the N franchise, entitled N++. They chose N++ instead of N+2 after receiving a stern warning from literary magazine n+1
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A game exhibit in Israel, Notch opens up his heart, and Animal Crossing this summer
(Above, BioShock Infinite’s alternative cover art.) In recognition of all things that scroll to the right (Nike Fuel bands notwithstanding), a bunch of rad people (including Kill Screen!) are hosting a game exhibition in the holy land. No, not Columbia. Israel. The New Yorker blogged the most heart