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Fantasia? was expensive and misunderstood. Why is Rock Band’s studio giving it a makeover?
Disney’s greatest experiment becomes an interactive Kinect experience. Will it work?
Jamin Warren
Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
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The new Xbox isn’t for you. It’s for everyone.
The curious place of Microsoft’s new “game console.”
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Editor's Letter: The Great Outdoors
Ken Burns told me games will always be abstractions. This issue is the argument back.
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Show us the bloody leg! Why Battlefield 4 isn’t yet counting the costs of war
“Technology has helped us become better story-tellers.” Thus sayeth Patrick Söderlund, executive VP of EA’s Games Label and one-half of dashing duo that graced the stage of Metreon last night. I was sitting towards the back of a movie theatre with a gaggle of other game journalists and apparently pr
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We’re canceling our Kickstarter! The Twofivesix conference is still happening. Here’s why.
Hello Kill Screen! (Here’s the tl;dr edition: We’re taking down our Kickstarter for the Twofivesix conference. But the conference is still happening, and tickets are now cheaper! You can get them here!) – – – When we launched the announcement for Twofivesix. a few weeks ago, we were filled with exci
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Profile of Cory Arcangel reveals an artist who understands games as an instrument of failure
The New Yorker lifted the paywall on its marvellous profile of digital artist Cory Arcangel. You may know him best from his 2008 piece Super Mario Clouds (above) where he erased everything in Miyamoto’s classic except the — go on, guess — clouds. Below, Arcangel explains why frustration is at the ce
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Kill Screen + Tumblr announce 3/10 SXSW party w/Cloud Nothings, Anamanaguchi, live GIFs, & a rad arcade
We’re throwing a party!
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Twofivesix speaker Paola Antonelli on Colbert Report tonight to talk MoMA games exhibition
We love MoMA. We’ve thrown an arcade with them and worked with them on the most recent acquisition of 14 games for the permanent collection of architecture and design. Tonight, senior curator and future Twofivesix speaker Paola Antonelli will grace the stage of the Colbert Report to talk about MoMA’
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Is Journey creator Jenova Chen the videogame world’s Terrence Malick?
Thatgamecompany founder Jenova Chen has moved millions through his vision of games with feeling and popular titles like Flower and Journey. But as he embarks on a new adventure as a solely independent creator, can he continue to make the novel titles that earned his studio fame? We talk to Chen abou
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Are games stuck in Wonderland? David Cage explains why the medium needs to grow up and how he can do it.
In the east side of Paris, in the 20th arrondissement known as Ménilmontant, there is a the largest cemetary in the city. It is called Père Lachaise and to be buried there is to share an eternal home with some of the greatest men and women of culture and politics in human history. Composer Frédéric
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Director J.J. Abrams just gave Gabe Newell some tips on what games can learn from film. We should listen.
In 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow created a system to figure out an age old question: what do people want? He called it his “Hierarchy of Needs” and it ranged from the basic physiological desires such as food and water at the bottom to the heady realm of self-actualization at the top. You’ve prob
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How Dead Space 3 pulled from Dieter Rams and Instagram
Unbenownst to most players, the user interface of Dead Space 3 is a paragon of design. Deceptively simple but informationally rich, the horror survival gives you everything you need to live for as long as you can. We take a close look at Dino Ignacio, the man behind Dead Space‘s simple and elegant i