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Media takes on a whole new dimension when you share it with other people. Discussing or analyzing it is one thing, but experiencing something as a group can make it so much more enjoyable. Caitlan Oram writes about the pleasures of playing videogames with an audience: A person’s reaction to somethin
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Dear god. Rock Paper Shotgun has the goods again today, this time about a Square-Enix Facebook promotional campaign for the new Hitman game, in which you can “target” friends for a “hit” and identify them by things like, I”m serious, having “small tits” or an undersized penis, or RED HAIR. It’s alre
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After graduating university with a chemistry degree, Ajit Singh went to work as a graphic designer for a soccer company, designing uniforms for clubs across the United Kingdom. He dreamed of making a game, though, and he found his inspiration in The Cove, a 2009 documentary about dolphin hunting in
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Metallica (The Black Album) was the beginning of the end for the band. It marks the start of their “sellout” phase, which you may disagree with, but you can’t dispute their change in sound (ostensibly due to producer Bob Rock). Releasing back to back albums entitled Load and Reload is bad enough, bu
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Earlier this year, the fine organizers at Portland’s XOXO Festival asked me to interview Ron Carmel, principal of the Indie Fund and co-creator of World of Goo. Ron was a lovely intervieweee and the piece above is a great overview/origin story from start to finish of a successful indie title. We tal
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Today featured Kickstarter news both triumphant and tragic: the turn-based strategy game Alpha Colony missed its target funding ($50,000) by $28 and won’t be funded, while Sir, You Are Being Hunted more than doubled its target (40,000 pounds) and will be made. So the former will start over, or die,
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From the British indie Landslide, which includes developers who worked on the Grand Theft Auto series and Wipeout, comes Criminalympics, a crime-sports lark very much in the Rockstar vein. The game – which is looking for 100,000 pounds on Kickstarter – takes places in something called the “Staten Is
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This past weekend, contestants streamed into Groupon’s SF offices for the annual Drone Games. (They were formerly called the Drone Olympics, but apparently received a cease and desist of from the actual Olympic Committee.) In a sign of the brave new world to come in our drone-infested future, James
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-Olivia Metcalf, researcher at the Australian National University, whose PHD research demonstrated that some gamers literally cannot stop thinking about games, even if they try to.
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At Kill Screen, our ties to hip-hop run deep. Former KS intern Drew Millard is the genius-level head behind Rap Industry Fan Fiction. Wu-Block is currently blowing out the speakers of our MacBook Air. This is why we are so overjoye to see that Spin has done a commendable public service and compiled
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If you’ve not seen it yet, the trailer for a Russian indie game called Stealer is the best game trailer I’ve seen this year, by a wide margin: So who is the man who made this utterly beguiling combination of Limbo, Hotline: Miami, and Blade Runner? The developer goes by the nom de game Winged Doom a
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When Disney acquired LucasFilm in October, coverage naturally, and rightly, focused on Star Wars. It’s important to remember, though, that LucasFilm and its sundry subsidiaries have been home to an enormous amount of talent over the decades, that a lot of that talent no longer works there, and that,