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Theoretical and scientific explorations into whether or not videogames may actually benefit your health are not uncommon, but how many game developers have gathered around the idea to use games specifically for therapeutic applications? The new Boston-based company Akili Interactive Labs is beginnin
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So since it’s friendship week here at Kill Screen, I wanted to bring something up that’s bothered me more and more in the current generation of gaming. See, I grew up at a time when playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was still the penultimate arcade experience, when LAN-parties of Starcraft and Qu
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Zynga caught a lot of flack recent for their less-than-subtle appropration of NimbleBit’s Tiny Tower when they announced their remarkably similar game Dream Heights, leading many videogame commentators to question the relevance of traditional copyrighting techniques to an evolving industry and mediu
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Saying there’s a bit of chatter about Mass Effect 3 on the internet is like saying there’s a bit of fur on Sasquatch’s body, or a bit of rapping on a Rick Ross album. A lot of people are on the fence about the game’s ending, but Tim Clark at Computers and Videogames is serving as the voice of reason
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The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece on what inspires creativity. The secret? Distraction. Although we live in an age that worships focus—we are always forcing ourselves to concentrate, chugging caffeine—this approach can inhibit the imagination. We might be focused, but we’re probably focus
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You know Kanye West, right? And you know the Kanye/Jay-Z song “N—gas in Paris, where Kanye keeps chanting, “Don’t let me get into my zone,” right?” Well, in what is perhaps the greatest achievement in stupid flash games, someone has made an interactive visual recreation of that line. The game is sim
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Rock Paper Shotgun reports that GAME, the leading games retailer in the UK, is going under. What does this mean for the UK gaming industry? Take it away, RPS: Without GAME, supermarkets will perhaps become the de facto leading games retailers – and thus far they have seem uninterested in stocking an
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Screw Attack has a piece on the history of console development, and it basically breaks down why some consoles win, and other consoles lose. Though it makes points about how the Dreamcast couldn’t play DVDs and that the Super Nintendo was somehow inferior, there’s something significant to be taken a
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There are many definitions of the word “love.” My MacBook Pro’s dictionary defines it as, “an intense feeling of deep affection,” or, “a person or thing that one loves,” or something about tennis. My personal definition of “love” is basically, “would someone go to www.themountain.me and buy me a t-s
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We love games of all shapes and sizes, and guess what? So does the rest the world. This is part of a larger project to document a homegrown game from every country in the world. If you’ve enjoyed Thai food there’s a good chance you’ve smelled fish sauce, shrimp paste, or some variation thereupon. Fi
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Forget the unveiling of the latest iPad, and the crowning of the best indie games at the Independent Game Festival at the Game Developers Conference 2012. The most impressive tech in San Francisco in this very tech-centric week was two blocks away from the buzz, shown in a dimly lit suite of the Wes
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Since Apple recently agreed to let independent auditors into their suppliers’ factories, Buzzfeed editor Matt Buchanan decided to ask some other tech companies if they’d do the same. He received no response from Sony but Microsoft was a bit more forthcoming, though they wouldn’t be taking the same l