High Scores: The Best of 2013
So begins endgame.
Kill Screen Staff
We’re celebrating the end of 2013!
It’s the end of another year! And we’re celebrating it the only way people with our unique dispositions know how to: By quantifying it in a series of lists that we probably should have not spent as much time thinking about as we did, but were also powerless to stop! High Scores: The Top 25 Videogame
Playlist 12/11: Peggle 2 rekindles the flame, DataJack hacks inside, and Radial Runner (colorfully) infuriates
Some videogames to warm you up, depending on where you live.
Skullgirls gets heart ripped out by Konami, continues beleaguered existence
Game development doesn’t have enough drama to make a good TV show, normally. But, if you forced me to make a show for TNT (oh alright, if you insist), I would pull inspiration from the fighting game Skullgirls developer: Lab Zero. Just this last week their publisher Konami, without telling Lab Zero,
Why open world might not be right for The Witcher 3
The new trailer for The Witcher 3 dropped this weekend, and our first thought was: daaaaamn, a reenactment of a Nordic village being massacred has never looked so pretty. Just gazing at the level of nuance present in the dusky prairie, the gothic city squares, the wan light behind the autumnal trees
The past, present and future of the Xbox as Microsoft’s vehicle for convergence
With the Xbox One safely on store shelves, writer Eric Fridén takes a look at the plans Microsoft has for our increasingly convergent future.
Amazon’s drone program is further proof that Black Ops 2 was prophecy
C’mon Amazon: catch up. Your CEO, Jeff Bezos, got awfully excited showing off your new octocopters, gushing about a drone-filled future. But Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was way ahead of you! Ok, so that game didn’t have drones that delivered right to your house half an hour after you ordered a shirt t
Just Cause 2 multiplayer arrives just in time to clown GTA Online
Just Cause 2 exists on the periphery for a lot people. It’s a three-year-old game that, similar to Minecraft or Skyrim, you tend to hear about more than actually play. Its community gets up to all sorts of crazy shit but it’s a small minority that actually gets to participate in any of the group for
Happy Thanksgiving!
We’re taking the day off to catch up on videogames and maybe talk to our families. (We’re still alive, Moms.) If you’ve got some time to kill, may we recommend diving into one of these? We’ll be back in action tomorrow. See ya then!
Super Mario 3D World and the joys of jumping in videogames
The legacy of Jumpman.
World of Warplanes brings childlike joy to the devastation of war
Truly, one feels the spirit of the sandbox.
Playlist 11/20: Resogun is shiny, Tearaway is punchable, and Post Future Vagabond is Brough-y
Our picks for the week!
Just now getting into the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? There’s still time.
Our eBay Collections were curated as part of our collaboration with eBay. Ok so this month could be a wake-up call for you. You’ve just been hanging out for the last, oh, 7 or 8 years, meaning to buy a new videogame console and, well, just plum forgot to do it. Now the new ones are upon you and you
Madden’s creator has a Grudge, GDC Next has a premonition, and the PS4 ripped open for all to see
Your last week of PS4-less living awaits…
Cat Mario goes to the mall, a Maniac’s new nightmare, and so many cars!
Remember, remember, the day after November fifth…
Single player co-op, Valve’s Steam Machine in captivity, & games may bulge your brain
Update your gray matter, because one day it may matter.
WonderBook found in amber, Aiming for Love in the UK, and Chess 2: Electric Boogaloo
The month we’ve been waiting for is here. Happy Next-Gen-ber.
DYAD’s soundtrack bumps and drips, Google Glass meets Watch_Dogs, & Willem Dafoe misses his cue
“Diablo your kingdom / AvidGamer the king? / Kill Screen gonna poison your food / with words sharp as bling”
Back to the BIT.TRIP, frightening Wii U sales, and how games turn us into cyborgs
Do we have some spooky news for you…
Playlist 10/30 | Lakeview Cabin horrifies, Device 6 confounds, and Candy Box 2 is the sweetest game of the year (literally)
Horror and mystery and candy await.
We made a disaster supply kit for the PlayStation 4 so you don’t have to
A quick back-up plan in case you can’t find a PlayStation 4.