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Machineers teaches you programming with or without your consent
The rethinking of the educational game continues.
Author: Darren Davis
Darren Davis is a contributing writer for Kill Screen.
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Upsilon Circuit combines crowdplaying, permadeath, and game shows
An unholy fusion that may just work.
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Here comes a touch-screen Super Meat Boy
On August 19th, wunderkind duo Team Meat announced they would be unveiling a new game at PAX Prime 2014 called A Voyeur for September. This was surprising for two reasons: first, everyone assumed Team Meat would be showing up with Mew-Genics, their mad scientist/cat lady simulator. Second, this new project claimed to be a “live-action stealth game,” its announcement accompanied by a 55 second video that looked like it took even less time to shoot and edit. Immediately after the teaser was released, the internet figured out that A Voyeur for September was an anagram for Super Meat Boy Forever.…
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Day 4 at the International: So what happens when you win $5 million playing a videogame?
A champion is crowned. Now what?
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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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Steam owes its success to openness, but not too much openness
Valve’s semi-walled garden is an industry standard.
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How Steam’s openness helps the little guy
Or: what Steam learned from Datpiff.
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The Binding of Isaac: A Postmortem
With the upcoming release of Rebirth, a look back on Edmund McMillen’s Freudian nightmare.