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Are videogames the new job creators? Britain certainly hopes so.
If the latest Call of Duty taught us anything besides the fact that big explosions are still almost as ridiculous as they are awesome, it’s that videogames can make you a ton of money. The United Kingdom recently followed a trend set by other game development-friendly nations like France, Canada, an
PAUSE: 100 Fine Art Permutations of Super Mario
Besides a ridiculous live-action movie spin-off (starring, of all people, Dennis Hopper), Mario’s transition from videogames to other areas of popular culture can sometimes seem few and far between. BuzzFeed has a list of 100 incredible pieces of fan art dedicated to the spunky Italian plumber, incl
Need a checklist to know whether or not you should clone a game? One author has a guide for stealing success.
Debates about game clones have been all the rage lately, covered in these pages as well as the NYT, but one author has a rousing defense of stealing other people’s ideas. Author Austin Kleon’s new book Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told About Being Creative makes the argument that stealing
New London exhibition examines the artist’s engagement with the television.
Simon Denny. Those who don’t change will be switched off. 2012. We here at Kill Screen are obviously obsessed with screens and London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts is as well. Their upcoming exhibition Remote Control caught our eye and artist’s interaction with the medium of TV certainly has ra
Four Western journalists play paintball with Hezbollah. Here’s what they learned.
One of the arguments for the existence of games is that they often show you who people really even if language can’t. In a move similar to the Christmas Truce soccer games of World War I, four Western journalists decided to play a game of paintball with members of the Lebanese Muslim military and po
What can the Muppets teach us about making better heroes?
In an interview with NPR last week, Jason Segel outlined the process for turing The Muppets into a reality. Along with director Nicholas Stoller, Segel had earned a reputation on screen as an student in the Judd Apatow school of film-making: a healthy respect for the power of raunchiness. But when t
Here are six ways that videogames will save your life.
Videogames have gotten a lot of flack during their short life atop the pop culture totem pole for being terrible for the mental and physical well-being of their players. But amidst all these accusations, the question naturally arises of what you would do if you were attacked by an angry moose. The n
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