Hi-Rise Pong, the Madden Curse turns 25, and "tetronimal ophthalmology"
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GTA 5 gets spiritual, Eve makes bank, and board gaming takes Mumbai
We now know what a first-person shooter looks like when your mouse’s gestures are plotted out (above), thanks to a Redditor named Derpasaurous. “In those days, I believed firmly that the future of computer games was all about AI. That in twenty years time we’d be interacting with NPC characters in c
Boston exhales, Mario’s questionable block, and Mr. Sim goes west
Last week was rough. Rob Dubbin, Colbert Report contributor (and infrequent Kill Screen scribe) showed how making games in response to tragedy can offer a different kind of catharsis. Friday’s unprecedented manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers ended with the help of thermal imaging, a kind of hea
Monaco is upon us, a Girl Scout badge for game design, and Minecraft’s creator makes Time’s 100
For the budding new media artist, there’s for(){};, a project that lets you play videogames on acrylic paintings. My only question is where do you plug in the NES pad? We all well know the best Girl Scout cookie is Samoas. But the best Girl Scout merit badge? Easily, game development. Riding the coa
Luigi goes all over, a sequel to A Link to the Past, and Roberto Bolaño’s maze-like fiction
Today, Nintendo just dumped a bucketload of gaming good news on the nonbelievers. And no, it’s not libation. Crucially, a followup to A Link to the Past, the Legend of Zelda game whose title has got to be one of the worst puns ever, has been announced. The other Nintendo mascot who looks good in gr
Wii U hits the road, a pasta-maker in Virtual Boy, and the New Yorker weighs guns on-screen
Kill Screen sends thoughts and wishes to all those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. A bit of levity to soothe your frayed nerves: A new Virtual Boy game has been home-brewed for your pleasure, and it’s about making pasta. If time is money, this latest Kickstarter project is worth yours: Le
The Sims evacuate Facebook, Chernobyl in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and GTA’s radio stations are on Spotify
First off, the New York Review of Books blog considers the connection between Tarkovsky’s Stalker, the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series, and Chernobyl. And for extra credit, read our interview with an artist who raided the Zone! “So there I sat in my parents’ living room, playing the game with my mom, sho
The Beast and SKill face off, a robotic mixologist, and a wild intern appears!
No, Vivan Clark is not a lesser known Woody Allen film. It’s the sublime successor to Kill Screen fave Soda Drinker Pro! Metanet announced they’ve started work on the third game in the N franchise, entitled N++. They chose N++ instead of N+2 after receiving a stern warning from literary magazine n+1
A game exhibit in Israel, Notch opens up his heart, and Animal Crossing this summer
(Above, BioShock Infinite’s alternative cover art.) In recognition of all things that scroll to the right (Nike Fuel bands notwithstanding), a bunch of rad people (including Kill Screen!) are hosting a game exhibition in the holy land. No, not Columbia. Israel. The New Yorker blogged the most heart
A Rumble in the Bronx, the followup to Papo & Yo, and Solid Snake loses his voice (actor)
Yes, there’s an old-school brawler starring graffiti artists from the Lower East Side. I <3 NY. Papo & Yo creator Vander Caballero has revealed Silent Enemy, a game that takes on the ills of bullying, so have the tissue paper handy. – – – We now know the complete lineup of launch games for Ouya. Ch
Tanks in your pockets, Q*bert marathons, and a new stream of motion-control
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A nine-year-old girl turned RPG maker, our favorite game sounds, and Ducktales!
We often get digital recreations of the past in the form of modern-day remakes. But what about imagined futures? Michael Thomsen writes at Complex.com about an article from 1988 that prefigured what our world would look like in the far-off future of 2013. Turns out the way we envision tomorrow tells
Thick Russian accents, outstanding videogame podcasts, and Half-Life X Doom
First up. Metro: Last Light looks smoking hot. Those thick Eastern European accents and underground conduits just ooze atmosphere. Most anticipated game this year. A director’s cut of Deus Ex: Human Revolution is coming to Wii U, and the infuriating, outsourced, hard as shit boss fights have been re
Celebrate the father of videogames, design a kitty cat app, and guess Miyamoto’s blood type
Spring is all about beginnings: the budding flowers, the cleaned-out closets, our renewed addiction to sugar-coated marshmallow baby chicks. This short documentary profiles Ralph Baer, inventor of the Magnovox Odyssey, the first commercially-viable videogame console and the root of what we play tod
Cyberpunk gets an authentic voice, chess as foreplay, and a DRM chair that breaks easily
Here’s the OMG news of the day (okay, of yesterday): Supergiant Games, a.k.a. those guys who made the indie sensation Bastion, are making a cyberpunk game!!! To be narrated by a grimy body parts smuggler? Maybe. A couple of blokes at Boing Boing explore the strange probability of Grime dice. Very ne
Sinking subs, two-player Tetris, and why Portal has a punchline-problem
Two days of winter remain. Read these and go for one last sled ride while you can. Sure, GlaDOS made some quips. But can a game truly be a comedy? One enterprising lad sought an answer (and asked our co-founder for insight along the way). Speaking of laughs: Nothing gets my gut jiggling like a subma
Big Boi tells all, games aren’t al-Qaeda’s forte, & Antichamber IRL
Here’s what you need to know. Big Boi does motion-capture for Army of Two and reveals he lost his videogame virginity at a precocious age to an Atari. So does that mean I’m street? There is a space sim game that simulates the entire known universe and beyond. Welp, that about wraps it up for games.
Spinning bottles, galactic sprites, & one massively-multiplayer email
Impress Saint Patrick with your wisdom and know-how. If you always wanted a Neo-Geo but the hard plastic turned you off, Analogue Interactive has your answer. They’ll build you a system and joystick from “any wood in the world” — they even give you a Wood Database to choose from. The Hubble Telescop
A history of Arabian game dev, NY Public Library goes Spec Ops, & a gender-bending Donkey Kong hack
Here’s what you need to know. Because Climate Change isn’t fun enough already, now there’s a board game about it. First polar bear off the melting iceberg wins! A motion controller is coming to PCs next week. Our dream for a Minority Report workspace grows ever near. In this week’s heartwarming mome
Best CEO advice ever?
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How a war journalist and Hollywood film editor are changing the story of Gears of War: Judgment
We know and love Tom Bissell here at Kill Screen. The author of one of our favorite books Extra Lives, reviewer for Grantland, and now writer for Gears of War: Judgement, Tom was actually responsible for the name “Kill Screen.” (It came to him in a fevered dream apparently.) So to no one’s surprise,
Announcing Twofivesix, our first ever videogame arts + culture conference.
For the last couple months, we’ve been working on something really special and now we can announce it! When we started Kill Screen, we wanted to show the world why games matter. We think an integral part of this story lies at the intersection between videogames and the rest of the world. Games are a
Your OUYA CREATE Game Jam Winners are Here!
After three weeks of incredibly difficult deliberations, we are proud to announce the winners of the CREATE Game Jam! We were so impressed with the depth of quality and variety of submissions, and hope that this is a preview of great things to come for the OUYA. For those of you who haven’t checked