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There are two conflicting accounts of the Mario Brothers myth. One is of a “It’s-a-me-ing” doughboy and his good-natured sibling from a wonderland where toadstools dress in cat suits. The other, perpetuated by the Dustin Hoffman movie and the Saturday morning cartoon, is of two tough-guy plumbers fr
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The staggering value of Star Citizen—the upcoming, space-trading, star-battling MMO from Mr. Wing Commander himself—brings up some important questions, but mainly: how the hell does one game raise 30 million dollars through crowd-funding? To put that in perspective, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 cost a
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Waiting in Line 3D is a lot like waiting in line except it’s in 3D. Oh, wait—that’s in 3D too. Still, it’s impressive that the virtual version eloquently captures that sinking sensation. Not that that’s very hard to do. We’re considering it part of “The New Absurd,” the growing trend of ridiculous g
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As the technical wizard behind games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, John Carmack has been an instrumental figure in the advancement of the first-person shooter. Under his guiding light, the genre has progressed from labyrinths of crude, brick mazes to the elegant experiences we know today. Bu
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Jake Elliot and Tamas Kemenczy of Cardboard Computer have been releasing curious little metafictional artifacts between each episode of Kentucky Route Zero, their ongoing saga about Baptist churches, coal mines, and hills. This time it’s in the form of The Entertainment, a southern gothic high schoo
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The procedure of how games with big budgets are made is guarded as tightly as a mobster in an isolation cell in Alcatraz. We see what the publisher wants us to see when they want us to see it and that’s it. However, inXile are breaking the veil of secrecy by putting the design documents for Torment:
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When Microsoft introduced achievement points for the Xbox 360, it awoke in their audience an unrealized fervor for points. But a few years ago players stopped salivating when they realized that plowing through Avatar for 1000 points did nothing for them aside from earning them bragging rights. Well
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We love videogames here at Kill Screen, but we’ve also been known to fancy tightly-bound printed material. That’s why we can’t get enough of this breathtaking black book on the history of the Sega Genesis, which does honor to the one and only console with blast processing. Titled SEGA Mega Drive/Gen
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Unless your phone died and you’ve been unable to check the internet, you know by now that Telltale Games is rumored to be working on a game based on George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones. The rumor hasn’t been denied, and as far as we know it could be referring to an unlicensed internal prototype, bu
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It almost goes without saying, but Koreans are really, really amazing at StarCraft 2. They’re so good that Blizzard feels compelled to give Korean pros an extra incentive. The Global StarCraft League will be offering more prize money to players competing in the Korean division, while those outside o
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We’re not sure what to make of this one. Lisa looks to be a typical modern pixellated platformer, but it is actually a role-playing game. Does it treat the issue of torture irresponsibly, or is it a scathing criticism of its portrayal in media? And what about amputees? If the game’s set in a society
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Music is ineffable. Quoth Frank Zappa, “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” This is doubly true for talking about abstract music games like Sentris, the symphonic puzzle about sliding colorful blocks into centrical patterns and creating beats. Case in point, after listening to a