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Today on Kill Screen: Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion on George Lucas, comedic timing, & satire
Do you have any stories about George Lucas? Which you can print? Um, maybe. We always had a little bit of this inferiority complex, because we would go to these company meetings and the different groups would present what they’d been doing for the last year. Industrial Light & Magic would go up ther
PAUSE: The colorful, vacant screens of Noguchi Rika echo of Lumines
Noguchi Rika – MIMOCA vol 2 [h/t]
Cheat Sheet 6/3: Penny Arcade move, fan-made TF2 vids, Wappy the DS Dog
We know mainstream videogame news is tough to keep up with. Help has arrived: –Konami remasters Metal Gear Solid, Zone of Enders, & Silent Hill for PS3. -All hail Wappy, the Nintendo DS-controlled dog. -Zynga preps a public filing. -Best fan-made Team Fortress videos announced. -EA starts its own di
Today on Kill Screen: Terraria as the anti-Minecraft
If Minecraft has the elegant structure of a haiku, Terraria is a washed-up Beat poet who hasn’t slept for three nights, scrawling on sheets of paper-eccentric, eclectic, but still able to enthrall. Minecraft boasts a Zen-like lack of objectives and worldly possessions, but Terrariais filled with gad
PAUSE: Matthew Williamson’s ASCII jumble is Dwarf Fortress meets iPhone
Not sure how else to describe it. [via]
