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Kill Screen & Capcom introduce "Fright Club." Pictureplane, Mux Mool to headline.
So we’re partnering with Capcom to launch the first ever Fright Club based on their zombie titles such as Dead Rising 2 Off the Record, Resident Evil : Operation Raccoon City, and Resident Evil Revelations. There will be drink specials from Sailor Jerry’s rum and of course, performances by Picturepl
Tweet of the Day: Indie chanteuse St. Vincent on Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!
We’re fans of the ethereal tones of Ms. Annie Clark that stir our passions. But apparently, something else lights her fire. She has a point. (Thx J.P.!) -Jamin Warren
Can gaming make you a better writer?
The New York Times has a piece on the dozen or so serious writers who honed their chops not through writing short fiction or practicing journalism, but by playing Ambermush, an online, text-based RPG from the 90’s that lasted until 2009. Consider the case of Jim Butcher, the author of the Dresden Fi
PAUSE: Stack the Bones
Just in time for Halloween, you can now buy Stack the Bones a new game that’s well, like Jenga, but with bone-shaped blocks. For some reason, the game reminds us of this 1848 political cartoon featuring Zachary Taylor, but then again, some of us were history majors for two years. Anyway, like we sai
Scientific Study Finds that Tutorials May Stifle Discovery and Exploration
Wired reports on a unique experiment that was meant to discover the impact different approaches to introducing a toy might have on the children’s attitude and pursuit of that toy. The first group was given the toy by an adult who acted as if she had just discovered it, and encouraged to find out exa
The right music for the right patch of grass.
D.C. duo Bluebrain releases its new album Listen to the Light today. It takes the form of an iPhone app but it’s really a location-aware album composed for NYC’s Central Park. Check out the behind-the-scenes video here with Dischord’s Ian MacKaye and AOL’s Steve Case. We recently interviewed Bluebr
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