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# Kendrick Lamar is in GTA (ostensibly), David Cage speaks out, & Nabokov does D&D
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/ballmer-steps-down/
- Published: 2013-08-26T12:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:09:16.000Z
- Description: Love is not just a verb, it’s you looking in the mirror.
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, cheat sheet, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Steve Ballmer, [Microsoft’s bald, stocky and bullish C.E.O.](http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/08/steve-ballmer-lack-of-vision-for-microsoft.html?mobify=0&ref=killscreen.com), is stepping down. We wonder what this means for the Xbox division.

[The complete track list of *Grand Theft Auto V*‘s soundtrack](http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1kyndb/complete%5Fgta%5Fv%5Fsoundtrack%5Fleaked%5Flist%5Fof%5Fsongs/?ref=killscreen.com) has been “leaked” after some people were able to download the game early from the PlayStation store. Hip-hop highlights include Kendrick Lamar, Gucci Mane, and Rihanna.

David Cage, best known as the outspoken creative impetus behind *Heavy Rain*, says [“that game over is more a state of failure for the game designer.”](http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/22/no-game-over-in-beyond-two-souls-but-jodi-can-die/?ref=killscreen.com) And our writer Jon says, “Is the end of a movie a state of failure for directors?”

[As this map handdrawn by Nabokov to illustrate *Ulysses’s* Dublin shows](http://www.openculture.com/2013/08/vladimir-nabokov-creates-a-hand-drawn-map-of-james-joyces-ulysses.html?ref=killscreen.com), videogames aren’t the only medium that requires a diagrammatic representation to get around in.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ullysesmaplarge.jpg)

> Try to picture someone looking at you from a window. Who is it? a. A friend. b. A stranger. c. Yourself.

—a real question from the esoteric trailer for Simogo’s upcoming game, which looks to be inspired by Saul Bass, personality quizzes, and your phone’s gyroscope function.

[On baseball and the art of failure, The Paris Review](http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/08/21/ground-down/?ref=killscreen.com) posted this story about Shelly Duncan, a former major-league player with a .217 batting average who’s been demoted to the minors.

By the way, the C.G. in the new trailer for *Fable Legends* on Xbox One looks fantastic. Let’s hope the game itself is this nice.

*Later!*