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"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
Monkey Island maker: I want Guybrush back from Disney
When Disney acquired LucasFilm in October, coverage naturally, and rightly, focused on Star Wars. It’s important to remember, though, that LucasFilm and its sundry subsidiaries have been home to an enormous amount of talent over the decades, that a lot of that talent no longer works there, and that,
Is Colonial America having its moment in the gaming spotlight?
Say what you will about Assassin’s Creed 3, and we said a lot, the setting was inspired. Colonial American has not gotten a lot of love over the years in games. In fact, it is only the second game I’ve ever played set in the time period. The first, 1996s Conquest of the New World, was a Civ-style st
The true story of the greatest Gamerscore race ever
My post earlier about competitive gaming, about pushing yourself to the limit in the name of games, brought back a memory. I’m not sure if I’m proud or ashamed of what happened in the fall of 2008, but I want to confess. I was late to the next (current) generation party. Though I first saw a 360 in
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