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Calling Off the Engagement
How a zombie game pulls me in and pushes me away
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Learn to love again with the Alienware Steam Machine controller
This article was written using products provided by Alienware and the The Alienware Steam Machine First Look program. It’s been over a month since Kill Screen’s first piece introducing the Alienware Steam Machine and our blossoming relationship, and you’re probably wondering how we’ve been getting a
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Steam’s economist now sits atop a steaming pile of Greek debt
Money money money, online and off
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The International, Day 2 and 3: The Wily, Genius, Totally Average Superstars of Tournament Play
Do we worship the player? Or do we worship the game?
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Day 1: The International turns videogames into a rock concert
Seattle comes alive to the future of sport.
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Facebook’s social experiments are only the beginning. Games have been toying with us forever.
It’s only play-testing, right?
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Steam owes its success to openness, but not too much openness
Valve’s semi-walled garden is an industry standard.
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Pretty much everyone ever owns and plays Dota 2 (apparently)
The dark fantasy esport Dota 2 is undeniably Steam’s killer app, according to the number-crunching-smiths at Ars Technica, who found that over 25 million copies have been downloaded and played on Valve’s popular digital download service. We shouldn’t be shocked that such a hardcore, complex game—eve
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Watch speedrunners obliterate Half-Life in 20 minutes 41 seconds
Okay, so you’ve beaten Half-Life like 15 years ago and felt pretty good about yourself. But these guys just beat it in 20 minutes 41 seconds. Well, the word “just” is a bit of an exaggeration. The speedrun, posted on YouTube recently, was the result of four years of “painstaking theorycrafting, exec
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Half-Life 2 sure would be good-looking on modern hardware
These crisp and meticulously-rendered screenshots of the train station from Half-Life 2 titillate and tease. Just how gorgeous would Half-Life 3 look on modern hardware? Not like that’s going to happen, but from time to time its good to rub fresh salt in old wounds. The shots come to us courtesy of
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Yale researchers have found a way to rip images from people’s minds
Time to start thinking about some custom firmware to guard the content of that brain of yours, presuming you are not a futurist who already thinks about that daily. Researchers at Yale have found a way to read people’s minds with an MRI machine. Before, they could read nonspecific things, like wheth
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Don’t look for Left 4 Dead’s AI Director in Evolve
When Turtle Rock announced that their next game was Evolve, a co-op first-person shooter with ugly aliens in it, it was generally assumed that they were doing a spiritual successor to Left 4 Dead, the co-op first-person shooter with ugly zombies, which they developed with Valve. But you know what th