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Posted By: Victor Pineiro

Just received a google alert from the past- more than three years ago, to be precise. It was our original "casting call" looking for gamers all those years ago! Wow, it's crazy to think how much was up in the air at that point. We'd all devoted ourselves full-time to Second Skin and still had no subjects, no stories, and only a bunch of interviews with academic. Scary, thrilling times, they were.

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Ralph Baer, Father of Videogames - VBS.TV

Posted By: Juan Carlos P.E.

In October of this year Peter and I went to New England. Watch our afternoon with Ralph Baer, great-grandfather of the modern video game. Working for Milton-Bradley he helped develop the technology that gave us Pong, and, by proxy, every other super-wonky and still-fun early video game you can think of. This pioneer of 2-bit technology and recipient of the National Medal of Technology recounts the Cretaceous period of gaming. Back then, you had a few crude shapes rendered in black and white, and that was good enough!

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Current TV - United Kingdom - November 23rd 10PM

Posted By: Peter Brauer

We are thrilled to announce that Second Skin will be playing on Current TV in the United Kingdom November 23rd at 10pm. This is our first TV airing, and we couldn't be more excited. I hope people will tune in and twitter with us.

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Available on iTunes

Posted By: Juan Carlos P.E.

The film is now available on iTunes for digital download! If you've been waiting for it - now is the time.

Download it from iTunes here.

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College Humor, Noob Boyfriend

Posted By: Juan Carlos P.E.

I got forwarded this video from College Humor. Its been awhile since I even took a look around there, but it's a pretty hilarious short about having a Noob boyfriend if your parents were a little more hardcore than that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfVqfIN8_c

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Second Skin our Theatrical Trailer

Posted By: Juan Carlos P.E.

This is a bit old now, but it's what we were using for previews in the small theater run we had in August. Second Skin takes an intimate look at three sets of computer gamers whose lives have been transformed by online virtual worlds. An emerging genre of computer software called Massively Multiplayer Online games, or MMOs, allows millions of users to interact simultaneously in virtual spaces. Of the 50 million players worldwide, 50 percent consider themselves addicted.

Reviews

Second Skin is fascinating, though-provoking, insightful, and more importantly, it's fair. There's a certain love for the material here and the film balances the positive and negative aspects of playing a MMORPG deftly.

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Hello, my name is Aurora, and I am a recovering addict. It’s been 17 months since I last signed on to my WoW account.

And Second Skin made me want to jack back in...

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Second Skin won Honorable Mention at the Adobe MAX awards in the entertainment category. They are a global awards program that recognizes the best uses of Adobe software for creating engaging experiences.

"It really presents a balanced view… It’s got really great commentary, a strong recommendation... something you’ve really got to see, whether you play video games or not." - Chris Gore, Attack of the Show

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"This movie will make you cum... now that I’ve watched it, it’s ruined me. I can’t enjoy anything now that I’ve been exposed to the greatest and best cinematic work of our generation or any before it. Citizen Kane? The Godfather? Pulp Fiction? More like Schlockizen Kane, the Schlockfather, and Schlock Schloction."

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