“While the world record is mine for now, I am not completely satisfied after falling short of a million points,” he added. “I am taking a break for the moment but will continue toward that goal soon.”
Budget cuts threaten to take chess away from the poor urban kids who have mastered it. If I was a studio executive, which I’m not, I’m getting on the phone right now for the big-budget Hollywood fictionalization. Just saying is all! You can watch the trailer for Brooklyn Castle at Vulture.
The ecoATM analyzes used electronics and identifies them with 97.5 percent accuracy. It then bids for the device. Right now, the kiosks are limited to used smartphones and MP3 players, but we here at Kill Screen think they are a natural fit for consoles and game handhelds, and not just because we’re
Gamasutra on the logic behind Sony’s unexciting Tokyo Game Show announcements: Taken individually, each item doesn’t sound particularly exciting (especially this far into a console cycle, when everyone is waiting for hints of the next-generation entries from Sony and Microsoft). But read between the
Not only will a Gran Turismo champ race at next month’s Petit Le Mans series, he’ll be racing Nissan’s futuristic and efficient rocket-ship-looking racer, the Delta Wing. For the 10-hour, 1,000-mile Petit le Mans race, Spaniard Lucas Ordonez will be driving, along with American Le Mans vet Gunnar Je
If you’re like me, I’m sorry. But also, if you’re like me, you played hours and hours Diablo 3, and you’re a little bit skeptical about buying another endless point-to-massacre fantasy game mere weeks afterwards. Kotaku has written up a frighteningly comprehensive – in that inimitable Kotaku way – g
Cultural relativism teaches us that no group of people have unique access to the truth, that the validity of beliefs and customs are limited to the civilization from which they spring. Oh gamers, we have been bad cultural relativists indeed! Where is the empathy, I ask you, for the piggy, slaughter
Everyone loves freaking out at a good-old Boston Dynamics/Darpa robot video, and here is the latest disquieting news: no longer will your cybernetic doom be augured by the deafening metallic squeaks and squooks of robot joints. Robot death is now 10 times quieter!
We all know we live in a future-shock security state with dwindling privacy and an increasingly tenuous grasp of our rights, but at least we have sweet, innocent videogames. Videogames which would never be used to spy on us, right? WRONG! A security surveillance firm is using Microsoft’s Kinect to a
We think of our president as a basketball guy, but he’ll be asking for your vote in Madden this fall. Barack may be going for another term as president, but someone should let the guy know that DC, for the time being at least, is a monarchy. All hail Robert the Third!
Welcome to the year 5773! We celebrate with apples, honey, this list of the greatest Jewish videogame characters ever, and a shoutout, Adam Sandler-style, to three very special Jews who have made enormous contributions to our gaming lives. 1. Ralph Baer. The “Father of Videogames” escaped Nazi Germa
We here at Kill Screen are all stoked as shit for Fireaxis’ XCOM remake. I have a Mac and can’t replay the original, although I have the circa-’94 floppy disks at home and sometimes in a bout of drunken nostalgia attempt to force them into the SD slot of my Air. Alas. Pathos aside, the wizards over
Apple revealed the latest iteration of their niche, hard-to-use, confusing and unpopular smartphone in San Francisco today, and there are a few takeaways for the small and elite handful of computer hackers that will use the iPhone 5 to play games: 1. A bigger screen means games will appear bigger. 2
Sean Smith, one of the four Americans killed last night at the consulate in Benghazi, was a long-time player of EVE ONLINE and a beloved member of that game’s player community. A devastating eulogy on The_Mittani, as well as a testament to the power of online gaming social networks: I’m clearly in s
These kinds of artifacts are there all around us. Our technology is failing here and there in spurts and blips, and instead of approaching it as an annoyance or nuisance, we’re starting to actually appreciate what is given back to us. It’s part of the greater implications of our algorithmic world. A
From the Canadian artist Flavio Trevsian, a board game based on Monopoly and Life in which players redevelop a once-blighted Toronto neighborhood: Playing the game is fairly simple. Everyone assumes an identity, from mayor to developer to resident of the demolished development. There’s even an “acad
