So long Neversoft, and thanks for Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3
2001: A Skate Odyssey.
Clayton Purdom
Send adorable adventurers to their sprightly little deaths in Lucky Frame’s new game
The roguelike gets a twist, again.
Cuphead is roughly 40% done, but hey, it’s gonna be a trilogy
Is 1930s animation the new 1990s pixel art? Probably not.
How Ready Steady Play makes a cowboy massacre adorable
One part Cleese, one part audio design.
How to recreate this morning’s Xbox press conference at home
Assimilation is inevitable.
Watch Dogs and Kanye West’s Chicago
Fast times in the unreal city.
The grand hypothesizing of Child of Light
Enjoy the art, little babies.
Project Morpheus will kill us all
Virtual reality is coming, and it is terrifying.
Obsidian is making a game where you play as a f*cking tank
You’ll shoot things, be a tank, etc.
People play Europa Universalis IV and Crusader Kings 2 an average of 190 hours, or 136,800 Flappy Bird lives
In news that is probably only surprising to people who have not been sucked into their vortex of systems and emergent narratives and lusciously illustrated maps, Paradox Interactive is reporting that their flagship games Europa Universalis IV and Crusader Kings 2 tally an average of 190-hour playtim
Kill Screen presents the Future of Genre series
Deconstruction and democratization, ahoy.
DEIOS, glitches and the death of videogames
A theory of noise.
Bayonetta trailer shows off Bayonetta doing Bayonetta stuff
There is a new Bayonetta trailer which features everything you loved and/or hated about Bayonetta. Convoluted mythology? Enormous golden animals? Skittering loungey J-pop? Gross oversexualization? All here. The first game was surprisingly lengthy, particularly if you explored its higher difficulty s
How The Vanishing of Ethan Carter took over the Internet with three .gifs
Adrian Chmielarz of the Astronauts tells us of unspeakable horrors.
Why is Kill Screen running review scores again?
Short answer: it’s time.
This week in glitches: go up north in GTA5, and witness the rapture in Assassin’s Creed 4
Keep open worlds weird.
New trailer for The Division shows off a bunch of really boring stuff
Here’s the thing: The Division looks great. I mean that it literally looks very pretty and that it also looks like it might be a really interesting game. Ubisoft is pretty good at this stuff. The problem is that you’d never guess it from the trailer that dropped over the weekend, which carefully dod
Here are a bunch of indie games apparently worth $1
A website called Shinyloot.com is spewing out indie games today for $1 apiece. These are, generally, of the XBLIG or Greenlight Gold level of artistic merit: either a jagged rip-off of a preexisting game or an attempt at something bigger marred by colored-pencil artwork. We bring this up not to shit
Kick back and watch Mario take a trip into hallucinogenic hell
“I can’t make him look normal guys, something tells me it’s gonna get worse,” Vinesauce intones at the start of this corrupted Mario 64 video, and in this prediction he is correct. This thing belongs in the glitch hall of fame. Mario’s big beautiful face, at the outset, appears to have been frozen j
Shenmue gets GDC postmortem, continues Dreamcast’s jolly stroll into immortality
Yu Suzuki is scheduled to give a postmortem of Shenmue at the next Game Developers Conference in March. PlayStation 4 mastermind Mark Cerny will be translating for Suzuki. These postmortems are normally fascinating: developers cut like a flaming hot sword through the typical piles of marketing bulls
Augmented reality gets a lot more real in these short films
Filmmaker Keiichi Matsuda has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of futuristic short films that will both illustrate our augmented-reality future and be ripped off in every sci-fi videogame and film between now and then. Dubbed Hyper-Reality: A New Vision of the Future, the proposed se
Persona 5 teaser heralds a New Wave for JRPGs
Last night, after a week-long countdown, Atlus unleashed a flurry of Persona-related news. The big one is the release of Persona 5 for PS3 in winter 2014, although they backed that up with announcements for (deep breath): Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, a series-spanning 3DS dungeon-crawler; Per
Killer is Dead is everything you love and/or hate about Suda 51
Largely, you know what you’re in for here.
Can a team of Pixar and Muppet Studios vets make good on the promise of Milo?
ToyTalk wants to open up a dialogue about videogames. With videogames, as well.