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Raphael Saadiq launches game company, schoolgirls hearts flutter
If there was a “Most Sultry” category at the BAFTA or AIAS awards, he would definitely win. The former Tony! Toni! Toné frontman is teaming up with sound engineer Chuck Burngardt: “He went to school to develop games, he’s a programmer,” Saadiq tells the BoomBox, of the transformation from mixing an
Private security firm Blackwater/Xe to receive on videogame treatment
Private security forces have shown up in games like Army of Two but this is a tad different considering the firm’s past: Its involvement in Iraq became enough of a controversy that the company renamed itself to Xe in the aftermath. Its employees were involved in shootings later found to be unjustifi
Scenes: The First Day of E3
Kill Screen staff writer Jon Irwin attends his first Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. In this dispatch, holding hands with mutants and reading into attire.
Composer Nico Mulhy: "I’m positive I understand how augmented chords change an emotional texture because of Nintendo music."
The fine folks at Snarkmarket pointed to this excerpt from an NPR interview with classical composer Nico Mulhy on the connections between a Nintendo childhood and composition: For me, living in the country, playing a video game was sort of like music minus one: The actions of my hands informed, in a
Cheat Sheet 6/7: New Halo, Fable, Battlefield, Far Cry and so on and so forth
It’s E3 so there’s a lot of news floating around. Here’s the important stuff. –Halo 4, Fable: The Journey, Battlefield 3 announced -Sony unveils PlayStation Vita handheld. –Far Cry 3 trailer. –Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim gameplay trailer. –BioShock Infinite teaser. –Fruit Ninja, MineCraft come to Kinect
June 6, 2011, 4:10 pm
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