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Battlefield 3 platforms itself with a yearly subscription service.
Hastening the transformation of games into platforms unto themselves, EA announced Battlefield 3 Premium, a subscription service for the first person shooter that will give customers access to five major DLC packs as well as “deeper personalization options and advanced features.” Each of the expansi
PAUSE: Muhammad Ali vs. Ryu
Italian street artist Combo playfully combines real-life celebrities with cartoon ones in the streets of Paris. One of his most recent works shows Muhammad Ali taking down Street Fighter‘s Ryu. Which one would win in a real fight? We’ll leave it to the fanpeeps to settle that one. Also, it’s unclear
Announcing Soundplay, a music and games arcade featuring M83, Cut Copy, Matthew Dear.
Kill Screen, in conjunction with Pitchfork, is proud to announce the launch of Soundplay, an interactive program focused on the intersections of music, gaming, and technology. Kill Screen has commissioned some of our favorite independent game developers to create new, original games inspired by Pitc
Kids should be making things like games and robots, not taking tests.
A couple years ago, I was on a panel for the MacArthur Foundation on the future of games and schools. One of the big questions was how games would be integrating and I found the answer of “systems-based thinking” to be convincing. In large part, this philosophy teaches that creation and collaboratio
Big Data comes to games in spy thriller Watch Dogs.
video An average person creates a “data ghost” of more than 2 gigabytes, the trailer for Ubisoft’s newly announced Watch Dogs tells us. A data ghost is a collection of all the logged data that can be attributed to a person, from medical records to online browsing habits. In aggregate this data can b
Open-source software artist makes brushwork between Draw Something and Velasquez.
Haniya Rae at Guernica looks at the brushwork of an open-source artist named Kynd.Info. I couldn’t help but see Draw Something: Originally, Kynd wanted to mimic Adobe Photoshop brushes so that texture and shading could be emulated. Eventually, he wanted to make “good paintings” with these tools. He
Nintendo announces Miiverse, the world’s cuddliest social network.
video In a pre-E3 presentation made through Nintendo Direct, the company announced it would be evolving the Wii’s avatar system into an enhanced social network called Miiverse. The demo showed a player being killed in a zombie game, presumably ZombiU, Ubisoft’s updated redesign of last year’s shoote
Resident Evil 6 rebirths the quick-time event.
video Not every new change is revolutionary. In fact most changes tend to be both predictable and not especially dramatic. The demo of Resident Evil 6 featured in Microsoft’s E3 media briefing showed a number of new ideas in the series, including the ability to fall backward and shoot from a lying d
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