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A few weeks ago during a trip back home I went to visit my old high school. Revisiting a place that so singularly defined my identity for a moment in time, I suddenly felt strangely out of place. I scanned my surroundings restlessly until I could lock on to something old and familiar—the office of m
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Here goes nothing: Steam will be adding remote installs. Microsoft is launching a new subscription service for the XBOX. Read the details here. Persona 4 will be coming out on the Vita this fall. Indie legend Notch may be in the next Total War game. Skullgirls is making its way to the PC. Rock Band
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video Please tell me those are Tacocopters.
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It was recently Food Week here at Kill Screen, and a large theme that was consistently raised was the question of taste. Simply put, can you ever truly arrive at an essentialist, universalist notion of taste, or is the notion of quality and experience always already culturally predetermined? NPR’s f
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The Verge has an interesting piece up on a revolutionary new subscription-based service for the XBOX soon to be unveiled: Microsoft is planning to launch a $99 Xbox console package with a monthly subscription as early as next week, according to our sources. The software giant will offer the 4GB cons
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You know the drill: Diablo III is going to allow intercontinental multiplayer, Blizzard announced. The company will also be taking a cut of the auction-house earnings. The next Call of Duty was officially announced. Details of Skyrim’s first DLC were announced. Check out this launch trailer for Mort
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A new Facebook game is taking a stab at promoting healthy sexual behavior, The Huffington Post Gay Voices blog reports: A new Facebook game is taking a socially-conscious look at the sex lives of gay and bisexual men, promoting the idea that the more men you have sex with, the more frequently you s
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A few weeks back, I wrote about how videogames are informing and changing our conception of history and the way we experience its most important tool: the archive. A more pressing question might be how the literal construction of history is beginning to change as more of our collective experience en
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We here at Kill Screen obviously spend a lot of time making sure all things videogame-related that we discuss pass a necessary coolness factor (taste-makers that we are). But is coolness always the most important cultural standard to which we ought to repair? John Cassidy takes a look President Obam
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Apparently these days movie theaters only use fifteen percent of their total capacity, according to this recent Vulture post. Given changing models in distribution and marketing for film and television, are movie theaters doomed to become a piece of collective cultural nostalgia like the arcade room
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video Sophisticated game design software and virtual reality technology is increasingly being used to treat soldiers and trauma victims in innovative and successful ways. But a new study may suggest that much older, simpler games may prove just as therapeutic for an entirely different class of victi
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video Regrettable orientalist jingoism aside, the “Angry Mob” feature in Command and Conquer: Generals was an interesting example of the struggle of computer programming to track civil strife in a way that realistically reflected social and political tension. A recent article in The Economist sugges