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"In big-time Big Buck hunting, with five figures on the line, the ultimate prey isn’t the virtual deer; it’s the dude at the other end of the plastic gun."
From Ben Robinson’s terrific piece in Deadspin today about the Big Buck World Championsihp.
Microsoft will pay you to play Halo. All you have to give them is your soul
Microsoft has a novel campaign to encourage people to play Halo 4’s multiplayer: pay them with Microsoft points. Here is the breakdown: Play 35 or more hours, and get 100 Points, OR Play 70 or more hours, and get 300 Points, OR Play 140 or more hours, and get 600 Points Remember, this promotion ends
Gameplay might not be as important as we think
The Astronauts is a game developer blog that has thrown a wrench in my conception of games. They have post up which shows five games and their five most memorable moments. BIOSHOCK First ten minutes. Entering Rapture. CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 No Russian. You take part in an airport massacre o
Exclusive footage of people who have seen the center of Peter Molyneux’s cube
We here at Kill Screen rarely break news; the fine folks at Kotaku and Polygon and CVG and Joystiq do a bangup job of that. However, we have received, from impeccable sources, several different pieces of footage of people who are confirmed to have seen the inside of Peter Molyneux’s Curiostiy cube.
Navy SEALS punished for participating in Medal of Honor
I doubt this is what EA had in mind when they touted Warfighter as the most versimilar military shooter ever made: Seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the mission to get Osama bin Laden, have been punished for disclosing classified information, senior Navy offi
GTA V is going to be twice as big as Manhattan. Actual Manhattan
News of Grand Theft Auto V‘s enormous size has set the internet atwitter today. So, just how big is “bigger than RDR, San Andreas, and GTA IV“? According to highly scientific internet forums, Red Dead Redemption is 28 square miles, San Andreas is 13.6 square miles, and GTA IV is 6.8 square miles. Th
Why do the Chinese treat virtual spaces differently?
Many of us believe the rules of regular life apply to our online interactions; a good measure of whether or not a comment is appropriate is if you’d say it face-to-face. This standard does not hold across all cultures. David Herold in the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research uses Bakhtin’s carnival as
Check out this text based shooter
Has Frog Fractions piqued your interest in text based games? Bad at Halo 4? Give this game a whirl. It’s surprisingly intense, and if nothing else it will help speed up your typing.
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