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April 18, 2011, 5:20 pm
Finger Battle will destroy your iPod with the force of a million thumbs.
Go Ladies! Women Making More of Their Way Into Game Design
Exciting piece on the burgeoning of female game designers, highlighting Margaret Krohn (above) who went from QA to game designer at Sony Online Entertainment: “I started with ‘EverQuest’ and MMO-style games. That was back when there was one girl to every bazillion guys. Now it’s like I could have 20
The Human Touch of Rating Games is Getting a Digital Hand
Videogame ratings are far from perfect and the poor Entertainment Software Review Board is tasked with assigning moral values to the hundreds and now thousands of games that hit the market each year. They have apparently given up the soft touch of their human board of reviewers and turned some of th
April 18, 2011, 2:50 pm
In a GIF: All Hail Vector Bird This is “Lift” by Emilio Gomariz. (via nevver)
Does Screen-Free Week Mean No Videogames?
So this week, mindful parents around the country will be shutting down down their televisions for Screen Free Week, a national effort to curb television watching for kids. This seems all well and good — too much of anything is a bad thing. But over at Slate, lawyer KJ Della’Antonia points out that t
Today on KS: So a Scientist Walks Into a WoW Plague…
Today on Kill Screen, we talk to Rutgers epidemiologist Nina Fefferman about her research on a real outbreak of a disease known as “Corrupted Blood” that ravaged the community about five years ago. Below, two excerpts on the utility of studying online communities and another on griefing: All told, h
3DS Photoblogs Creeping on the Come Up
This may be a fad, but oh well, there are a handful of 3DS photoblogs bopping around Tumblr that take advantage of the devices GIF-making ability. The shot above comes from Fuck Yeah 3DS Photography. Brandon Boyer, Mare Odomo, and Cory Schmitz made another called Wigglevision. Any others?
Need a Brain Boost? Just Bring Me a 9V Battery.
When you want a kick, there are several tried and true methods. Some people use caffeine. Others use exercise. But some people respond to the direct application of electricity to the brain, at least according to a new story in Nature: Last year a succession of volunteers sat down in a research lab i
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