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Movie posters should be the model for game art.
Slashfilm‘s Germain Lussier recently wrote about Mondo, an art collective that sprouted from the Alamo Drafthouse, a small series of cinemas famous for their treatment of the filmgoing expeience. Mondo is a group that has designed some of the most gorgeous collectible film posters over the past few
PAUSE: Mass performance of Pac-Man in an Italian Stadium
One of the better ways I’ve seen to support your team. [Via Reddit]
How hackers and gamers are going to change mainstream culture for the better
Tristan Louis, of TNL.net, has written an article discussing the ways that hacking and gaming culture have been perceived over time. The two groups have tended to get along rather well over time but now more than ever, they are both becoming accepted by the greater culture at large as well. The reas
In the Boston area? Play in the Hokra tournament at MIT this Friday!
MIT’s GAMBIT Game Lab will be holding the first ever Hokra tournament this weekend. The game premiered last year at NYU’s No Quarter event and has since become known as a great e-sport to those with access to it. Inspired by the soccer videogame FIFA, two teams of two players dodge, kick and score i
Want to hang with Kill Screen at PAX EAST this weekend? Yeah, you do.
So PAX East is this weekend in Boston. We’ll be there selling mags, tees, and other goodies. Come say hello! We’ll be at the Kickstarter Pavillion.
It’s happening. Al Lowe comes out of retirement to try to fund new Leisure Suit Larry project.
Al Lowe, the creator of the pervy classic Leisure Suit Larry, has taken the lounge lizard’s hunt to Kickstarter. With a $500,000 ask, Lowe is ending a self-imposed hiatus and frankly, the news isn’t surprising to us! We interviewed Lowe for the Intimacy Issue where he outlined some of the travails f
Introducing GNILLEY, a game for people who yell by people who yell.
Video Designed two years ago at the Global Game Jam in Sydney, GNILLEY is game where you tell — at everything. Perhaps developers for the Kinect should take notice. There are a lot of angry people in this world that demand absolution. Developer Glen Forrester is raising money on his Kickstarter to m
Do kids play more games, watch more TV, or read more books?
The Kaiser Family Foundation released a report titled Generation M2 on the media consumption habits of those 8 to 18-year-olds. The study outlines how kids spend more than 50 hours a week and much of that time is spent on multiple devices in what they are calling “media muti-tasking.” What surprised
