Michael Abbott has an essential post at Brainy Gamer today about the state of game writing as it relates to the experience of playing indie games. Game writing, he argues, has ossified into shorthand that does not capture what it is to play truly new-feeling games: What emerges is a stark and narrow
Edge reports that digital versions of popular board games, created to serve the booming tablet audience, have greatly boosted sales: While the popularity of the boardgame has never been in question, the growing number of touchscreen enabled devices – and the broad market reach of those products – ha
A Google study of tablet use comes to some predictable conclusions: When U.S. tablet owners are playing games on their devices, they’re most likely sitting or lying down on a couch, according to a new Google study examining how consumers use tablets. The research paper, which seeks to provide an und
Jim Rossignol has a great take today on why he wants to play Day Z, XCOM, and FTL so much more than Dishonored: the more ways there are to fail, the more invested he becomes in a game. Novelists and scriptwriters have understood this trick for years: piling problems on to the protagonist, in as many
We here at Kill Screen international HQ were fondly recalling our halcyon Doom days (the Doom 3 rerelease came out last week), when the subject of the ending to the first game came up. For me, this was the most terrifying and memorable moment in the entire series. Speaking of which, MR HONEY BUNNNN
I dare you to watch this without being tantalized. What’s that you say? This doesn’t excite you? Well stop reading my website, Mom. I’ll call you later, but you’re embarassing me in front of my friends.
Peter Molyneux, the legendary English game developer, is known as much for what his games don’t deliver as for what they do. The maker of Theme Park and Black and White and Dungeon Keeper famously promises a revolution from each of his games, then castigates himself after the titles inevitably fall