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Steven Applebaum and Ryan Hoss, founding members of site Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive snagged an interview with half of the infamous film’s final screenwriting team, Parker Bennett. The lengthy interview covers the span of the film’s creative development, the trials of being over-budget and o
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Happy Monday! Let’s race through some mainstream videogame news! -Celebrate Samus Aran’s 25th birthday with this fanmade video. –Modern Warfare 3 has been confirmed for Wii. –Skyrim boss thinks games are too costly; Skyrim remains $60. –Take a look at the latest The Walking Dead screens and deta
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We here at Kill Screen love robots. So do the editors and contributors of MAKE magazine, whose Vol. 27 is all about the adorable machines. ‘Spazzi’ (seen above) was created for the issue by Beatbots, a group out of Pittsburgh that “develops robotic characters that defy entrenched notions of robots
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Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, thinks robots can do much more than vacuum our floors or perform a fan-dance. Previous “social robots” developed by her group have been able to display emotion in reaction to human prompts or even notice and understand
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With the rerelease of the original Halo: Combat Evolved on the horizon, why wouldn’t Microsoft save their marketing dollars and just use the same TV ads from back in the day? Well… That generic heavy metal just isn’t cutting it anymore. Still, remember how cool it was when you first saw that dude ge
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This September, Rockstar Games will release a free DLC pack for Red Dead Redemption called “Myths & Mavericks.” To get ready, we suggest seeking out this box of fireworks not only featuring Mr. Marston himself, but titled after the first DLC pack released last summer. (As seen on Kotaku, via Reddit
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Life is hard. Getting mainstream videogame news should be easy. –NBA2K12 trailer features 15 NBA icons. –Resistance 3 has gone gold, and dev company Insomniac Games wants to show you its trailer. –League of Legends offers new map and game mode. -Bungie hints at mysterious new title code-named Ti
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Many games offer a spike in blood pressure. But few allow access to a higher plane of existence. Noted spiritualist Deepak Chopra—author of books such as “Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles”—plans to change that. His new game Leela will be published by TH
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Jeff Ryan, in an interview with Slate, talks about how Super Mario Brothers established videogames’ first folk hero, and how those games influenced the obsessive nature of pop culture fandom going forward. According to Ryan, “[i]nstead of passively ingesting their entertainment, they study it in min
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From four students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands, here’s Mac ‘n’ Cheese. No, not the delicious kind—the kind that’s an awesome animated short. Inspired by Team Fortress 2 and animated short Meet Buck (and perhaps channeling a little bit of Crank), the project took approximately fi
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Time to get zapped with some mainstream videogame news! -Gearbox has announced Borderlands 2, shared game’s first details and clues. -Activision has previewed its Marvel game lineup at Comic-Con 2011. -Blizzard sales on the rise, but does not plan to release a 2011 title. -Microsoft is preparing f
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Have you been feeling kind of weird today? Well, one reason may be that you’re glitching out. According to Nick Bostrom, philosopher at Oxford University, the chances that you’re a virtual creation living in a computer simulation are surprisingly high: This possibility rests on three developments: