The Gameboo is a bit of maker brilliance. The hero who runs Casing the Joint, eight months ago, set out on a project to rip out the viscera of an old Gameboy and rebuild it, stronger and faster. The new guts come from a Dingoo Technologies A330, a handheld system that supports a variety of emulators
Steam, Valve’s distribution and multiplayer platform, makes it really easy to own games, with its digital downloads and seemingly-constant sales on wonderful titles. If you’re like a lot of us here at Kill Screen, Steam almost makes it too easy to own games: we end up with a hard drive full of worth
Jason Johnson is one of the new Kill Screen staff writers, he’s an Alabama fan, which we won’t hold against him, and he’s a peach of a wordsmith. He’s so good, in fact, that the tastemakers at Longreads have selected his wonderful piece from our most recent print issue as a member exclusive. The art
CVG reports that the controller for the soon-to-be-announced PlayStation 4 will not follow the 13-year-old Dual Shock design: A senior games studio source working on an upcoming Sony game says the new system’s controller has undergone numerous iterations, few of which resemble the DualShock build th
Let’s be honest: Square Enix has been treating Final Fantasy like Spielberg and Lucas treated Indy Jones (that’s South Park so, NSFW) for awhile now. And things aren’t looking up. Have you seen the trailer for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XII? Lorda’mercy it looks bad. Wow. So, even worse than t
-From the body text of bill H.R. 287, introduced this week by Democratic congressman Jim Matheson of Utah, which would make ESRB ratings legally binding.
Reus is a latin word that means “guilty” or “culpable”, and it’s a curious name for the forthcoming god-game from independent studio Abbey Games. What are you guilty of? Perhaps we can take the word broadly to mean “responsible”. This makes sense, because in Reus, you play as a omnipresent titan, re
John Thorne at the Atlantic has a terrific writeup on the burgeoning esports scene in the fractured North African nation. It’s your daily reminder that gaming can be a powerful agent for social good. The Libyan gamers themselves face major challenges related to the lack of digital infrastructure in