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TODAY ON KS: Super Meat Boy creators on owns up to breaking windows, winning beauty pageants, and admiring Jesus at the mall
Our ongoing “pre-game” series rolls on with Tommy Refenes and Edmund McMillen, creators of the popular Super Meat Boy. By far, this is our best interview to date. Big childhood secret? Edmund: When i was 8 me and this neighbor hood boy touched each others junk behind his house, for some reason afte
Cheat Sheet 5/16: PSN back, American McGee makes money, Angry Birds world record
Keeping up with mainstream videogame news is tough. Here’s what happened over the last day or so. -Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 stuff leaked. -An EA Tiburon employee made a swan song for his fellow employees. -American McGee, creator of the Alice series, received funding for five more games. –Angr
May 13, 2011, 11:00 am
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Cheat Sheet 5/13: Chrono Trigger to the Wii, Top Sales
Mainstream videogame news can be tough to slog through. Here’s what you need to know from the last day: –Portal and Mortal Kombat nab top sales honors last month –Chrono Trigger comes to the Wii on Monday. -Sega, Creative Assembly announce new Alien game. -5th Cell, creator of Scribblenauts, bump b
Review: Dragon Age II
BioWare’s latest role-playing epic knows how to seduce you, except when it really doesn’t. J. Nicholas Geist writes on the game’s fourth-wall-breaking manuevers and the issue of acceptance.
Wooden blocks for kids to build their imaginations
A California teacher is creating a new line of kid’s blocks on Kickstarter. Check ‘em out. I will create an original line of children’s building blocks made from salvaged wood. My goal is to educate children about where the wood came from and where it was going (i.e. the landfill) if I had not recla
