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Happy Thanksgiving from KS!
Happy holidays from Kill Screen! Let’s eat to a full health bar. Here’s what we’re thankful for: Jamin Warren: I’m thankful for children. Richard Clark: I’m thankful that we’re not held responsible for the mistakes of our childhood (and that I never got on national TV when I was a kid). Jason Johnso
Nintendo commissions real-life Mario karts
If your bucket list is anything like mine, you hope to one day take part in a real life Mario Kart race. I can only fathom that Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, had a similar fantastical wish. Under the guise of promoting the new Mario Kart game due out in December, Fils-Aime comm
Are videogames most like poetry?
In a recent interview about his game-poem A Slow Year, written for Atari 2600, Ian Bogost mused over why videogames are often compared to films and novels, when the closest analogy might be poetry. poetry feels game-like to me not because it is procedural, but because it is highly condensed… symbols
Things to do during the NBA lockout: clear out the backlog
Wonder what LeBron James is up to during the lockout? He’s Batman. He tweeted: “What an amazing game “Batman Arkham City”. Just finished and beat it. Everyone who had a hand in creating it, I wanna say Thank You! #Gamer” Next, he plans on winning a title… in NBA2K. (via) -Jason Johnson
Byzantine architecture of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
The Assassin’s Creed: Revelations team managed to recreate an authentic 16th century Constantinople, even though many of the buildings in the game no longer exist. [A]rt director Raphael Lacoste and mission design director Falko Poiker turned draftsmen. They made a research trip to the city (today’
Kids design game for mental health awareness
A group of kids out of Cumbria have decided that the best way to raise awareness about mental health disorders was to create a game. Finlay Miles, 13, Matty Goad, 16, and Reuben Kane, 14, all have Asperger’s syndrome and came up with a design featured a character named “Naked Edgar” a cartoonist’s d
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