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Which Kickstarter games haven’t done their homework?
Today featured Kickstarter news both triumphant and tragic: the turn-based strategy game Alpha Colony missed its target funding ($50,000) by $28 and won’t be funded, while Sir, You Are Being Hunted more than doubled its target (40,000 pounds) and will be made. So the former will start over, or die,
Introducing Criminalympics, which is basically the Grand Theft Auto sports game
From the British indie Landslide, which includes developers who worked on the Grand Theft Auto series and Wipeout, comes Criminalympics, a crime-sports lark very much in the Rockstar vein. The game – which is looking for 100,000 pounds on Kickstarter – takes places in something called the “Staten Is
Winner of Drone Games "wins" by infecting other drones.
This past weekend, contestants streamed into Groupon’s SF offices for the annual Drone Games. (They were formerly called the Drone Olympics, but apparently received a cease and desist of from the actual Olympic Committee.) In a sign of the brave new world to come in our drone-infested future, James
"People who spend an excessive amount of time playing games are powerless to stop themselves"
-Olivia Metcalf, researcher at the Australian National University, whose PHD research demonstrated that some gamers literally cannot stop thinking about games, even if they try to.
Do yourself a favor and watch this history of videogame samples in rap music
At Kill Screen, our ties to hip-hop run deep. Former KS intern Drew Millard is the genius-level head behind Rap Industry Fan Fiction. Wu-Block is currently blowing out the speakers of our MacBook Air. This is why we are so overjoye to see that Spin has done a commendable public service and compiled
Who is the man who made the best game trailer of the year?
If you’ve not seen it yet, the trailer for a Russian indie game called Stealer is the best game trailer I’ve seen this year, by a wide margin: So who is the man who made this utterly beguiling combination of Limbo, Hotline: Miami, and Blade Runner? The developer goes by the nom de game Winged Doom a
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