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What now Nintendo? Japanese giant charts first loss in half a century.
Womp womp. Nintendo posted its first loss as a public company in 50 years as competitors, specifically Android and iOS, have chipped away at their market. Despite building a base of more than 151 million DS users, other handheld devices have bridged the gap. The most telling note comes from an analy
Play of the Day: Bloop for iOS is an aggressive, finger-pointing free-for-all.
Video Game designer Rusty Moyher (who I’m convinced has taken a stage name as an ode to Russ Meyer) has a new title called Bloop that’s taken a page from the B.U.T.T.O.N school of gymnastic game play. Tap the dots, elbow your friends and all that. Break fingers if you must!
Cheat Sheet 5/1: Diablo III goes intercontinental, Max Payne 3 DLC detailed, and Black Ops 2 made official.
You know the drill: Diablo III is going to allow intercontinental multiplayer, Blizzard announced. The company will also be taking a cut of the auction-house earnings. The next Call of Duty was officially announced. Details of Skyrim’s first DLC were announced. Check out this launch trailer for Mort
A new facebook game helps prevent the spread of STDs.
A new Facebook game is taking a stab at promoting healthy sexual behavior, The Huffington Post Gay Voices blog reports: A new Facebook game is taking a socially-conscious look at the sex lives of gay and bisexual men, promoting the idea that the more men you have sex with, the more frequently you s
Does history have a future in the digital age?
A few weeks back, I wrote about how videogames are informing and changing our conception of history and the way we experience its most important tool: the archive. A more pressing question might be how the literal construction of history is beginning to change as more of our collective experience en
Is being cool always the most important thing?
We here at Kill Screen obviously spend a lot of time making sure all things videogame-related that we discuss pass a necessary coolness factor (taste-makers that we are). But is coolness always the most important cultural standard to which we ought to repair? John Cassidy takes a look President Obam
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