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Wokamon is the Tamagotchi that feeds off your sweaty workouts
Now you can be a slob and a virtual pet murderer at the same time.
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TV and film are full of bad dads, but games are doing better
“[On TV] if there is a dad in the home, he is an idiot. It must have reflected our own discomfort with dads being competent,” said Hanna Rosin on a panel about the future of fatherhood this weekend at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “You put a dad in front of his kid, and the dad gives the worst advice. Y
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Shop class gets algorithmic and metaphysical with cube-within-a-cube mod
We don’t often get the chance to talk woodworking here at Kill Screen, but this instructional video on how to cut a block of wood into a square that is suspended inside another square—also a block of wood—lets us dream of a nerdy foray into the industrial arts we never knew. You may think master ca
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Now you can play reality in third-person perspective, too
Because real-life needs third-person perspective too, Polish software modders Mepi have created this strange, perspective-shifting Oculus Rift mod, which allows you to view the world from an over-the-shoulder view (and keep tabs on your bald spot to boot). Possibly the most cumbersome wearable tech
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Weren’t a fan of Shadows of the Damned’s garrulous humor? Blame EA
I tend to think of Grasshopper Manufacture’s Shadows of the Damned as a prototypical Suda 51 game: a perverse, sexually frustrated, B-movie kill-fest that is nevertheless a lot of fun. Your protagonist’s gun is a talking skull named Boner. But according to Suda, the game as he envisioned it wasn’t s
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Facebook’s social experiments are only the beginning. Games have been toying with us forever.
It’s only play-testing, right?
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Shockers Bluff is your new dinner party ice breaker
If “Feel the Pain” is your favorite Dinosaur, Jr. song, then you’re in for a treat. Michael Hand of the Revision3’s show DIY Tryin‘ has put together a devious game concept that will surely upset everyone you know and likely send another to the hospital. Titled Shocker’s Bluff, the concept is simple.
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Paris gets more Paris-y with this 3D botany app
Frenchest news post ever.
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Check out these four frazzling exploration games from Glitch Jam
Let us also note: free!
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Cortana is pretty good at predicting World Cup winners
Cortana—everyone’s favorite blue-skinned malfunctioning AI buddy from the Halo games—has a knack for predicting World Cup soccer matches, it seems. Since Microsoft has adopted her voice as the equivalent of Siri for Windows phones, she’s carrying out all kinds of non-shooting-oriented voice commands
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Apparently Nicolas Winding Refn, Guillermo Del Toro and Chan-wook Park really love MGS
Over on the Metal Gear Solid 5 product page, a trio of acclaimed film directors are fawning all over Hideo Kojima. Guillermo del Toro (Pacific Rim, Pan’s Labyrinth), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives), and Chan-wook Park (Oldboy) are heaping Homeric levels of praise on the Metal Gear cr
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In-game psychos are actually outstanding human beings, study shows
All those morally bankrupt deeds we see in games, like being a total creep in DayZ, could actually make players more emotionally intelligent human being, believe it our not. This is according to a new study from researchers at the University at Buffalo, which shows that performing dick moves in virt