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Variety is reporting that the next Batman from Rocksteady, makers of the Arkham series, is going back to the chromatic ’50s. New, highly stylized title is being developed as a prequel that revolves around Batman’s first meeting with the Joker. It’s based on the Silver Age of DC’s comicbooks from th
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This new music video for electronic duo MNDR is an interesting concept—it’s about you. The interactive video serves to reimagine music in the same vein as our own Soundplay features over at Pitchfork. Rather than using a game, though, the directors at Fourclops have crafted the narrative of the vide
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The ideal scientist is addicted to research. But when time is of the essence, crowdsourcing with games of pattern-finding in a real world context has proved an efficient way to get the world to do research for you. Following suit, Britain’s Wellcome Trust, a global charity for the advancement of bi
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It’s been confirmed that Trent Reznor has composed the theme song for Call of Duty: Black Ops II, a game set in the future where the U.S. is in a cold war with China, which will surely heat up, considering fans would probably be disappointed with a game of ceasefire. Whether Reznor was inspired by d
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Next Tuesday, July 17 at 7:00 p.m, we’ll be at Lincoln Center with Zach Gage! The Kill Screen Dialogues will roll on the NYT-acclaimed game designer, programmer, educator, and conceptual artist from New York City. His work explores the increasingly blurring line between the physical and the digital.
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Foundd, a new Berlin-based media recommendation service, just launched this week. Rather than focusing solely on mathematical predictions, unlike Netflix’s recommendations, Foundd looks at the bigger picture and makes broad strokes with its suggestions, including content from multiple content provid
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Kill Screen columnist Michelle Young, on her way through Rio De Janero to study the legalization of street art, took a moment in Terra Encantada, another abandon amusment park whose play crossed the line into death. She took the full story to Untapped Cities. By now, you might be used to seeing aban
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This new game console was announced only a week ago and already seems to have the gaming community rallying behind it—or at least hyping it. Led by former IGN executive Julie Uhrman, designed by Yves Behar, and advised by Ed Fries (who wrote for us in Issue 2), Ouya is being touted as the console t
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If you dream of walking across the words of a poem as you read them, building maps of metaphor that you play in your head, see how New York poet Jon Cotner willled this into realtiy with the work of a Japanese master of the haiku. We’re Floating is a new interactive walk designed by artist and poet
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In case you hadn’t heard, we’ve partnered with Pitchfork to present new, playable music videos by bands who’ve been inspired by videogames. The project is called Soundplay, and so far we’ve featured Jake Elliott‘s game based on M83’s “Intro” and Santa Ragione‘s game based on Matthew Dear’s “Street S
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We don’t always play horror games. But when we do, we usually piss ourselves. Slender is simple and scream-inducing. Pick your poison: Mac or PC.
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Because not everyone can fulfill their childhood dream of being left completely alone in an empty city with a really fast, agile car, we have people like Ken Block—the man behind the wheel of this rally car who shut down entire streets of San Francisco for what looks like the loneliest, best joyride