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Last week, a demo for Fire Emblem Awakening, the latest entry in a series of tactical-role playing games that dates way back to 1990, was made available for free on the Nintendo 3DS store, and there went my night! You can think of Fire Emblem like chess or go or Djambi, but with less balance and mor
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‘We the People’ is a section of the White House’s official web presence that allows for the public to make their demands heard. One vocal and prolific contributor to popular games forum NeoGaf, Cheesemeister, has begun a petition to ban region-locking in games, movies and other software. So what’s a
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Cue the whispering voices and film noir soundtrack. “Developer sources” have told VG24/7 that the next Playstation will be 50% more powerful than the next Xbox. Oh, is that right? The report goes on to say, While PS4 will have greater grunt than [Xbox] 720, however, the Microsoft machine has signifi
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The Gameboo is a bit of maker brilliance. The hero who runs Casing the Joint, eight months ago, set out on a project to rip out the viscera of an old Gameboy and rebuild it, stronger and faster. The new guts come from a Dingoo Technologies A330, a handheld system that supports a variety of emulators
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Steam, Valve’s distribution and multiplayer platform, makes it really easy to own games, with its digital downloads and seemingly-constant sales on wonderful titles. If you’re like a lot of us here at Kill Screen, Steam almost makes it too easy to own games: we end up with a hard drive full of worth
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Jason Johnson is one of the new Kill Screen staff writers, he’s an Alabama fan, which we won’t hold against him, and he’s a peach of a wordsmith. He’s so good, in fact, that the tastemakers at Longreads have selected his wonderful piece from our most recent print issue as a member exclusive. The art
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CVG reports that the controller for the soon-to-be-announced PlayStation 4 will not follow the 13-year-old Dual Shock design: A senior games studio source working on an upcoming Sony game says the new system’s controller has undergone numerous iterations, few of which resemble the DualShock build th
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Let’s be honest: Square Enix has been treating Final Fantasy like Spielberg and Lucas treated Indy Jones (that’s South Park so, NSFW) for awhile now. And things aren’t looking up. Have you seen the trailer for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XII? Lorda’mercy it looks bad. Wow. So, even worse than t
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-From the body text of bill H.R. 287, introduced this week by Democratic congressman Jim Matheson of Utah, which would make ESRB ratings legally binding.
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Considering a recent article in Edge that claims that the number of women working in the game industry is actually on the decline, it’s easier to swallow SOE’s terrible G.I.R.L. acronym for the actual good the initiative does. The G.I.R.L. (it stands for Gamers In Real Life, sigh) scholarship progra
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You might have heard that Temple Run 2, the sequel to one of the most popular games on iOS, was released today. You might have even downloaded and had the same reaction as we did: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Canabalt was nice, but it’s time to move on. We have no beef in particular with the Temple Run franchi