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Skrillex will get under your skin in "advergame" Skrillex Quest
Television advertisements are usually boring or insulting. There are the occasionally inspiring or well produced, but as a whole TV adverts have the superb ability of inspiring misanthropy. And videogame advertising? There is the tried and true product placement, but there are also entire games devo
Spacewar! coming to Museum of the Moving Image
Lots of museum news today, what with our very own Jamin Warren helping to decide what video games are worthy of de Kooning and Brancusi. The other story, which might get lost in the shuffle, is that a playable replica of Spacewar!, one of the very first videogames, will be displayed at the Museum of
The science game that lets you fight physical pain
Last week at the London Science Museum, a new exhibition called Painless opened. It explores …pain through the stories of extraordinary people who deal with it every day – from the patient who suffers with chronic pain in his missing limb, to the man who feels no pain at all. How are scientists work
Must read: this epic history of Pong
If you’ve got the time, Buzzfeed’s 4,500 word history of the early days of Atari and the development of Pong is a delight. Apart from what is clealry a still-simmering beef between Magnavox Odyssey mastermind Ralph Baer (age 90) and Atari (and Chuck-E-Cheese!) founder Nolan Bushnell (age 69), my fav
MoMA acquires 14 games to permanent collection. Here’s how Kill Screen helped!
When we started Kill Screen a couple years ago, I used to feverishly check our order queue as the first crop of customers began to file into our web store to order print copies of issue zero. (Still available in ebook form!) It was a daily ritual for me, the way one might check on an herb garden or
The Humble THQ Bundle is an insane value
I come from a family of bargain hunters. We thrill to the discounted, the half-off, the outlet mall, the two-for-one. So I know a steal when I see one. And the Humble THQ Bundle, from the distressed publisher, is a goshdarn deal. You get: Metro 2033, Darksiders, Red Faction Armageddon, Company of H
"What’s a Wii U?" asks Michelle Obama. Nintendo answers
What’s a Wii U? That’s a good question. Considering it has essentially the same name as the Wii and we haven’t marketed it well at all, you are not unlike a whole lotta people. When Christmas comes around, there are going to be a bunch of confused parents, clearly you among them, but then doesn’t th
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