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Today on KS: We review a game about love

Bumpy Road is one of those endless driving games you play while standing in line at Customer Service. It’s also a terrifically poignant love story. When enough bits are picked up, raising the fuel meter above a threshold, this triggers a temporary bonus section that shows the couple driving through

PAUSE: Shawn Smith’s pixelated vultures "devouring an analog office full of obsolete technologies"

Austin artist Shawn Smith has been using pixels for lots of his work including Vicious Venue (above). His statement:  My recent work explores my interest in birds of prey as a source of conceptual inspiration and analogy. I am fascinated by vultures and the visceral way most people react to them. Fo

‘Father of videogames’ donates four decades of work to museum

This is pretty rad. Ralph Baer, creator of the first commercial videogame system, is giving his stuff to the Strong Museum of Play: Ralph Baer donated his collection of original diagrams, schematics, engineering notes and patents that show the scope of his work during the formative years of the burg

May 18, 2011, 2:35 pm

Attention NYC: We’re throwing a party for the BLIP festival on Thursday night.

Flashback: 1983 Nintendo Game & Watch ad

New Converse spot turns sneakers into Space Invaders

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Today on KS: We aggregate Metacritic scores in glorious Mario-related fashion

We all know Metacritic so we decided to aggregate them with the help of our friends at Nation. It’s a lovely visualization. Take a look.