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Cheat Sheet 6/7: New Halo, Fable, Battlefield, Far Cry and so on and so forth

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

Tetris to expand into waffles, furniture, soup, everything

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

Nintendo gives 3DS users walking papers in global "Street Pass" day

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

Cory Arcangel: "My art is anti-technology."

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

Cheat Sheet 6/3: Penny Arcade move, fan-made TF2 vids, Wappy the DS Dog

We know mainstream videogame news is tough to keep up with. Help has arrived: –Konami remasters Metal Gear Solid, Zone of Enders, & Silent Hill for PS3. -All hail Wappy, the Nintendo DS-controlled dog. -Zynga preps a public filing. -Best fan-made Team Fortress videos announced. -EA starts its own di

Today on Kill Screen: Terraria as the anti-Minecraft

If Minecraft has the elegant structure of a haiku, Terraria is a washed-up Beat poet who hasn’t slept for three nights, scrawling on sheets of paper-eccentric, eclectic, but still able to enthrall. Minecraft boasts a Zen-like lack of objectives and worldly possessions, but Terrariais filled with gad

June 2, 2011, 10:00 am

Soccer star Maradona sues Chinese company that allegedly wronged him. Argentinian soccer star Diego Maradona (who knows a thing or two about foul play) is unhappy with a Chinese company that he says stole his likeness. From China Daily: The9 Limited, an online game operator and developer in China, l

Cheat Sheet 6/2: X-Men on iOS, MW3 multiplayer details, a Portal 2 robot walks

We know mainstream videogame news can be a slog. Here’s some help. -The PlayStation Store returns. -Classic arcade X-Men surprises the App Store. –Minecraft doc makers want your story. –Dirt 3 charity DLC represents. -Another Portal 2 robot lives. -Two decades-old Madden lawsuit wrinkles EA. –Modern

June 1, 2011, 10:00 am

tinycartridge: Playing games in the car while nature waits outside, shot by Lori Paulson (click for a larger image). This was shot during a road trip from Seattle to Redding, California. Four friends decided to take a 1,200-mile drive and back to In-N-Out Burger, and this double exposure image captu

Cheat Sheet 6/1: Carmageddon returns, COD sub plans roil, Roku loves games

–Carmageddon returns. -Zynga presents Empires & Allies. –Here’s ten minutes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. –Games headed to your Roku Box. –Split/Second developers regroup. -Some (obv) disgruntled about Call of Duty subscription plans. -DS Lite receives a price cut. See that wasn’t so bad. Image via.

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.

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

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

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