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These guys made an racing game/RC car hybrid
RC-car remotes are counter intuitive. Go-karts are kind of lame. Racing games aren’t have never done it for me, (I haven’t played the new Need For Speed) except for kart games oddly enough. But what if you could make a racing game where you controlled an actual RC car with an arcade booth? Well thes
Departing Madden designer calls EA a money-obsessed robot. BREAKING NEWS FROM FORD’S THEATER
AJ Dembroski, a designer who worked on the past two iterations of the colossal Madden franchise, went on the Twitter warpath this week after leaving Electronic Arts. Among his contentions: the game’s extremely talented designers are chronically stifled by a pervasive focus on metrics/statistics/numb
Episode 2 of Kill Screen video series delves into body movement & gender politics of Dance Central 3
Last week, we announced the launch of our Kill Screen show with the Creators Project, a partnership of Vice and Intel. We looked at the cinematic realism of Crysis 3 and why games are now including “crap” like lens flare to make titles look more like film. This week, we travel to offices of Harmonix
What is the worst game you could ever design? Popcap designer has some ideas.
Scott Jon Siegel made the rounds of the social games bubble at Zynga and Playdom, so he’s no stranger to some strange or terrible ideas. Over the weekend, he started the Bad Games tumblr in an attempt to design the worst games ever. “I’d rather make bad games now than good games eventuall,” he expla
Why is there a rape in Far Cry 3 and why is it different from the rape scene in Pulp Fiction?
About halfway through Far Cry 3 (which I’ll review this week), you rescue a character who, we are made to understand, has been raped by his captor. The victim has been imprisoned in a dingy basement just feet from a busy road; the sequence, which ends in the murder of the rapist, is an obvious allus
Why wouldn’t you help Bill Nye the Science Guy make a game about flying?
Look, I’ve got a soft spot for Bill Nye. We went to the same school. He spoke there once when I was eleven or twelve and he was goofy and had a bowtie and owned it. The Science Guy years were magical, of course, and much less codedly hostile than Mr. Wizard. Since then, Bill Nye has basically been c
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