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Can videogames actually improve your cognitive function? This new Boston-based start up says yes.
Theoretical and scientific explorations into whether or not videogames may actually benefit your health are not uncommon, but how many game developers have gathered around the idea to use games specifically for therapeutic applications? The new Boston-based company Akili Interactive Labs is beginnin
Why we still need split-screen co-op in the age of the internet.
So since it’s friendship week here at Kill Screen, I wanted to bring something up that’s bothered me more and more in the current generation of gaming. See, I grew up at a time when playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was still the penultimate arcade experience, when LAN-parties of Starcraft and Qu
Why is cloning games so easy?
Zynga caught a lot of flack recent for their less-than-subtle appropration of NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower when they announced their remarkably similar game Dream Heights, leading many videogame commentators to question the relevance of traditional copyrighting techniques to an evolving industry and mediu
Was the ending of Mass Effect 3 worth it?
Saying there’s a bit of chatter about Mass Effect 3 on the internet is like saying there’s a bit of fur on Sasquatch’s body, or a bit of rapping on a Rick Ross album. A lot of people are on the fence about the game’s ending, but Tim Clark at Computers and Videogames is serving as the voice of reason
Can games help you create?
The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece on what inspires creativity. The secret? Distraction. Although we live in an age that worships focus—we are always forcing ourselves to concentrate, chugging caffeine—this approach can inhibit the imagination. We might be focused, but we’re probably focus
DO NOT LET KANYE INTO HIS ZONE
You know Kanye West, right? And you know the Kanye/Jay-Z song “N—gas in Paris, where Kanye keeps chanting, “Don’t let me get into my zone,” right?” Well, in what is perhaps the greatest achievement in stupid flash games, someone has made an interactive visual recreation of that line. The game is sim
Is the British games industry dead?
Rock Paper Shotgun reports that GAME, the leading games retailer in the UK, is going under. What does this mean for the UK gaming industry? Take it away, RPS: Without GAME, supermarkets will perhaps become the de facto leading games retailers – and thus far they have seem uninterested in stocking an
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