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"By the end of this year, there will be more women than men playing games"
–Bryony MacKenzie, BBC News.
It’s true! Joe is leaving us for Buzzfeed.
You might have seen this yesterday. We’re obviously incredibly happy for Joe as he moves on to new territory. While it’s the most unfortunate kind of compliment, we’ve had several former writers file bylines for Kill Screen before moving into posts at other amazing publications — Kirk Hamilton at Ko
This is what Street Fighter would look like if it was a first person game
The Street Fighter games are friezes, not sculptures. Even when they show visual depth of field, they still exist more or less along one axis, and that’s the way we like them; that’s how they exist in our imagination. But what if the games were played in the first person? That’s the question answere
Market research firm projects Xbox 360 to win this hardware cycle
Despite the enormous amount of coverage and sales of the Wii in the early years of this hardware cycle, and despite the fact that the PlayStation 3 appears to have the better upcoming slate of exclusive releases, DFC Intelligence, the market research firm, predicts that the Xbox 360 will have defini
The Orchestra Lamoureux takes a break from Debussy to do Uematsu
The Orchestre Lamoureux was founded in 1881, and as Simon Parkin points out, premiered Debussy’s Nocturnes, as well as his seminal La mer. The French orchestra also does a damned fine version of Nobuo Uematsu’s “One Winged Angel” (From Final Fantasy 7), as Parkin describes in his wonderful piece abo
Why the decapitated, limbless, bikini-wearing corpse Dead Island special edition is actually a good thing
Gamers and other humans are understandably disgusted by the special edition of Dead Island: Riptide that comes packaged with a figurine of the legless, armless, headless, rock-breasted body of a zombie victim (no I will not include a picture of it), which publisher Deep Silver calls “a striking conv
Science: if you keep losing at a game, it may be because your brain is not smart enough
Researchers at the University of Manchester and Oxford University have discovered that players of games of sufficient complexity – like chess and poker – do not always, or even often, make rational decisions, because it’s simply too difficult for their brains to measure all of the available options:
"I’m still in shock…without Ivan, DayZ never would have come out"
-Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, after learning that developers Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been granted bail following a 128-day imprisonment in a Greek jail. The two were arrested in September after Greek authorities charged them with espionage when they were seen filming a military base on the
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