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So this week, mindful parents around the country will be shutting down down their televisions for Screen Free Week, a national effort to curb television watching for kids. This seems all well and good — too much of anything is a bad thing. But over at Slate, lawyer KJ Della’Antonia points out that t
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Today on Kill Screen, we talk to Rutgers epidemiologist Nina Fefferman about her research on a real outbreak of a disease known as “Corrupted Blood” that ravaged the community about five years ago. Below, two excerpts on the utility of studying online communities and another on griefing: All told, h
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This may be a fad, but oh well, there are a handful of 3DS photoblogs bopping around Tumblr that take advantage of the devices GIF-making ability. The shot above comes from Fuck Yeah 3DS Photography. Brandon Boyer, Mare Odomo, and Cory Schmitz made another called Wigglevision. Any others?
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When you want a kick, there are several tried and true methods. Some people use caffeine. Others use exercise. But some people respond to the direct application of electricity to the brain, at least according to a new story in Nature: Last year a succession of volunteers sat down in a research lab i
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Oldie but Goodie: The Pixel Art of Junior Senior’s “D-D-Don’t Stop The Beat” (via)
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World’s Biggest Pac-Man! agentmlovestacos: This is actually pretty rad. It’s a community-driven, worldwide Pac-Man project. Users create their own boards, upload them and they’re then connected to other boards. Anyone can start playing on any board. Instead of transferring from top to bottom or righ
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The Morning News has a fascinating piece on a chain of theme parks called KidZania that allow kids to role-play a variety of jobs. The crazy part is that it’s all corporately sponsored as a way to get children interested in what big brands have to offer: Children can play surgeon, detective, journal
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IN A GIF: A Super Nintendo twitch.
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UK company Myndplay has created a technology to allow viewers to change the outcome of the film based on their thoughts. The connection between this and games seems promising: In the films the viewer takes the role of the protagonist. They can achieve positive outcomes for their character if they ac
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Announcements like this ofter go unnoticed, but design geeks take note. You can buy digital art and interactive backgrounds for your PS3 via a new store. The work is curated by design shop Studio Output and features the work of eBoy (above), Jasper Goodall, Maharishi, and more.
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Ben Abraham reflects on Crysis 2: Crysis was actually two things: a tech demo, and a sequence of tropical playgrounds built to demonstrate how much fun it can be to jump off rooftops onto the heads of North Korean soldiers while a gentle breeze blows serenely through palm fronds. The game saw genera
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A group of Costa Rican designers are working on a new project that will translate tweets into actual gameplay changes. It’s a bit like Scribblenauts — whatever pops up on Twitter shows up in the two games they’ve created — a racing gaming called Route 140 and an action called Love City. The proje