Earlier this year, we learned of one man’s bonkers plan to shoot a documentary as he excavates a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where it’s said millions of copies of E.T. are buried. Today we found out that this film will be original content for Xbox. There has been original television content
We here at Kill Screen believe that two teams of intensely skilled gold farmers going at it is a wholly worthwhile activity. But the rest of the world doesn’t necessarily see it that way. When guests on HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel recently entertained the question of whether esports count a
Nightmare: Malaria is a game with a good cause, namely fighting malaria in Africa. But hold up, Mr. Cynical-pants. Before you dismiss it outright on the grounds that it’s fighting the good fight, I have to say it looks like a compelling experience in its on right—sort of like Limbo with sinister mos
The other day I questioned what good could come from President Obama inviting the founder of Zynga to the Oval Office for a chat about national security. I think the sentiment was something to the effect of: what the eff? Well, it turns out Mark Pincus of Zynga made a bold and populist contribution
Namco High is the stateside dating sim that lets you loan your letterman jacket and class ring to many forgotten characters from the Namco vault. Yep, it’s nuts. But then the question arises of sexual orientation. Is the ship from Galaga a dude, a gal, or agendered? The thought alone is kind of sil
Nintendo announced a confounding but potentially cool new Zelda title for Wii U today. Dubbed Hyrule Warriors, the latest adventure for our peach-fuzzed wonder is being developed by Tecmo Koei, not Nintendo. The game will be chockablock full of action, as Link will find himself facing an unfamiliar
Over at freeindiegam.es, Terry Cavanagh, designer of really hard games like Super Hexagon and VVVVVV, has put together a list of his favorite free games from this year. These are great because you aren’t likely to hear these games mentioned anywhere else (aside from Become a Great Artist in Just 10
The impending release of Bravely Default: Flying Fairy on January 2nd marks the end of an era. We’ll just call it the we-can-make-nothing-but –Final-Fantasy-era. For a while there, every game coming out of the RPG studio Square Enix had something to do with Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy XIII, Final F
République is out tomorrow for iPhone, and one of the features the stealthy-action game prides itself on is the realistic depiction of the female sex. The lead, voiced by none other than FemShep herself Jennifer Hale, is a tough, resilient, and fully-clothed woman who was just hanging out in a hoodi
Day Z was officially released today, kinda. So in honor of the brutal zombie game that had otherwise decent men writing borderline fanfic about breaking their leg and groping in the darkness until a bandit finished them off with the butt of a rifle to the head, we put together these photos. You may
The President is holding a powwow with fifteen leading figures in the tech industry, and somehow the head of Zynga got on the list. This sounds terrible because it is. The purpose for the roundtable is for the White House to get opinions on how to correct HealthCare.gov and deal with the NSA. So, it
A new category has appeared on Steam, bearing the words “VR support.” Now that virtual reality is a separate entity in the database, maybe this means we’ll be seeing some made-from-scratch VR games soon. When the current wave of virtual reality first gained momentum with the Oculus Rift, it was ver
For me to dance requires a good-looking partner and a blood-alcohol-level high above the legal limit. That, or a game that cajoles me to cut a rug by placing my fingers on an iPhone. Bounden, coming to mobile devices in 2014, intends to enlighten wallflowers like me with the rhythmical movement to m
When high-definition gaming had become predictable, Nier was a breath of fresh air. The story of a strongman in search of a cure for his terminally-ill daughter was touching, experimental, and weird, an action game that wasn’t afraid to try things, like interactive fiction. But with the closure of i
One of the best things about artistic expression on the Internet is that cool games come out of nowhere, like western Washington. Actually we don’t know where Ice Water Games—the startup studio behind the misty, scenic Eidolon—is from, but the Pacific Northwest is the location for their game about
Most horror games pride themselves on making your heart jump and hands shake, but here’s one that strives to relieve those nervous symptoms. The upcoming Nevermind, headed by Erin Reynolds, is the type of haunted house you’ve come to expect from a survival horror game: you’re isolated in some surrea
Bipartisanship is a broken system and needs to be more cooperative—you know, like playing Contra, without stealing continues and bogarting the laser gun power-ups. That was the point of a tongue-and-cheek article by Slate’s top political corespondent, who played Escape From the Mysterious Room in do
Let’s get this out of the way up front. Clusterfuck is a card game themed around sex. No actual sex is involved, although I’m guessing the rules could easily be adapted for swingers. The idea is to covertly organize a threesome between a trio of players without the other players catching on. If you
Candy Box was a wonderful joke. It had a small but influential portion of the Internet wondering how a game that uses keyboard symbols for graphics could be playable, much less awesome. Candy Box 2’s punchline was self-referential: how could a game that was a joke justify a sequel? It, too, was inex
Last week Facebook made public their plans to establish an artificial intelligence lab, a new research center devoted to giving you the content you care about. The new technology, which is purely theoretical at this point, aims to analyze video and voice, delivering to your news feed the cutest kitt
Some creators have the uncanny knack to be trendsetters. This goes for the Austrian developer Broken Rules, whose new game Secrets of Raetikon will be available on Steam Early Access come January 7th. You may be familiar with these Nostradamuses from Vienna by way of And Yet It Moves, an Independen
Here are some of the gruesome things you won’t notice in the Walking Dead season 2 trailer because the music is so lovely: a hammer cracking open the skull of a zombie; a man and woman with holes blown in their head, holding hands, a revolver resting in the guy’s other hand; a little girl being grab
Modding is the most benevolent kind of narcissism. Think about it. Here is this person, just another player, who decides for whatever reason that, say, Skyrim doesn’t live up to expectations. It would be better if they had made it. So they do. Us unadventurous types are ever-thankful for their egoti
Grand Theft Auto V is a source of endless amusement, mostly because of all the unbelievable things you can get away with. Naturally this includes loading a city bus with a gang of roughnecks, dropping it at the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere from a helicopter, and synchronously parachuting out. Rock
The first thing you see in the newest trailer for SOMA are tentacles stretched across a foreboding catwalk under flickering lighting. The obvious point of comparison is to the horror author H.P. Lovecraft, innovator of all tendrils long and slimy. Frictional Games, who are sort of the O.G.’s of the
