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Check Out Our CREATE Game Jam Submissions!

In case you missed it, we ran a game jam this month in partnership with OUYA called CREATE.  165 development teams (!) spent ten days building prototypes of brand new games for the upcoming OUYA console.  And today you all get to see them. The CREATE prototype submission videos are now live HERE! We

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"If you’re stuck on a puzzle in The Cave, take a break. Adventure games are meant to be savored like a fine meal, not eaten like junk food."

-game designer Ron Gilbert on his new game, The Cave. We interviewed Gilbert and co-writer Chris Remo earlier this week.

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Want to know what the inside of Far Cry 3’s world looks like? We took a closer look.

A couple weeks ago, I headed up to Montreal, where it was colder than Hoth, to look beneath the hood of Far Cry 3. For each of the Kill Screen episodes on Creators Project, we’ve picked a specific angle for the game to hone in on. In this case, we looked at what it means to build a virtual world, sp

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We may never finish making the case for games, but if we’re to succeed, we must make that case with compassion for those who feel victimized by violence in all its forms.

-On the heels of Obama’s announcement’s to pursue research on the connection of games to violence, Michael Abbott makes an appeal.

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We wrote a vision statement to explain what we want to be.

Last fall, we packed up my girlfriend’s car and drove to two-story farmhouse in Athens, New York for a staff retreat. I had never done one of these before, but we felt like it was a good time to regroup and reflect on what we had done….and where we wanted to be. One thing we did was work on a missio

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Ian Bogost, Looper director get in politest Twitter spat ever

Ian Bogost, the game designer and academic who is the closest thing the medium has to a guru, announced yesterday on Twitter that he did not like last year’s time-travel actioneer Looper. Am I living on another planet or something? rottentomatoes.com/m/looper/ — Ian Bogost (@ibogost) January 14, 201

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"In their own way, each form of board game is seeking the meaning of life. "

-Todd VenDerWerff explains his newfound fascination with the physical side of gaming. Might be we recommend Guts of Glory or Cards Against Humanity?

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Check out Kill Screen founder’s picks for the month of January on WSJ Live

The fine folks at WSJ Live asked me to walk through my game picks for this month. I chose Spaceteam, Hundreds, and Soda Drinker Pro. No surprises there!

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Kill Screen’s Most Disappointing Games of 2012

The games that let us down this year.

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Kill Screen’s Top Ten Games of 2012

The very best of the past twelve months.

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This weekend, play this Contra and Metal Slug tribute

Indie developers have dusted off and recontextualized old genre after old genre. Yet one of my favorites – the sidescrolling shooter in the Contra vein – has gotten relatively little love. Is this becuase this type of game doesn’t lend itself to thoughtful mechanics or narrative? As the PA Report wr

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The MuchLoved project is an ode to lost and forgotten toys

Photographer Mark Nixon is on a quest to remember your toys of yesteryear. It is an adorable pursuit.