Kill Screen Staff

1953 posts

November 14, 2011, 9:14 am

With so much time and effort spent making virtual weapons in games like World of Warcraft and Monster Hunter, or cobbling together world monument #122 in Minecraft, it is refreshing to see a person who is actually making something. Made by Hand / No 2 The Knife Maker is a short documentary that focu

I don’t want my MTV, or CDs, or newspapers, or…

First, it was the music industry. Then, newspapers. Now the television business is feeling the pinch as younger generations are turning to the internet to watch TV shows and movies, hanging subscription services out to dry. According to the chairman of Dish Network: Young people who move to an apart

PAUSE: Can pixels be queer?

48 Pixeles isn’t just worth checking out because of the gorgeous pixel art taken from classic games. The artist who sometimes goes by “48” has created LGBT pixel fan fiction, and the results are beautiful, warm, and sometimes a bit cheeky. Famed indie developer Anna Anthropy led us to it. “what i pa

In search of Modern Warfare

Game writer and KS contributor Gus Mastrapa has a new column about standing in line for Modern Warfare 3. You can feel the desert air. The story doesn’t take the turns you might think. I’ll admit that I was made for living in that other, more rare America where people hammer out police procedural te

Vimeo to indies: Cough up or get out

There aren’t many avenues for indie game artists to showcase their work, and yet another one has closed its doors to developers. Vimeo’s policy prevents creators from uploading videos of gameplay unless they’re willing to cough up $199 a year, which can be a lot of money for a small developer. In an

Let me tell you about midichlorians

Nobody asked how the Force works. Yet George Lucas told us anyway. Knowing it came from organisms called midi-chlorians living in the bloodstream kind of ruined it. This is just another case of too much information––something videogames are constantly giving us. In a recent blog post, game critic Sc

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