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Trent Reznor to cast brooding shadow over Call of Duty: Black Ops II
It’s been confirmed that Trent Reznor has composed the theme song for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a game set in the future where the U.S. is in a cold war with China, which will surely heat up, considering fans would probably be disappointed with a game of ceasefire. Whether Reznor was inspired by d
Kill Screen Dialogues at Lincoln Center continue with artist Zach Gage.
Next Tuesday, July 17 at 7:00 p.m, we’ll be at Lincoln Center with Zach Gage! The Kill Screen Dialogues will roll on the NYT-acclaimed game designer, programmer, educator, and conceptual artist from New York City. His work explores the increasingly blurring line between the physical and the digital.
Rio’s abandoned amusement park is an eye in a development storm.
Kill Screen columnist Michelle Young, on her way through Rio De Janero to study the legalization of street art, took a moment in Terra Encantada, another abandon amusment park whose play crossed the line into death. She took the full story to Untapped Cities. By now, you might be used to seeing aban
New York poet builds interactive map of centuries-old haikus.
If you dream of walking across the words of a poem as you read them, building maps of metaphor that you play in your head, see how New York poet Jon Cotner willled this into realtiy with the work of a Japanese master of the haiku. We’re Floating is a new interactive walk designed by artist and poet
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