Kill Screen Staff

Battlefield Bad Company 2 brings the battle to Somalian Hunger Relief

Over a third of Somalia’s population—that is, roughly 3.7 million people—are at risk of starvation because of consistently poor harvests due to lack of rain.  Enter First Person Saviors, the combined effort of Don’t Revive Me Bro, Quantic Media, and Battlefieldo, a charity effort aimed at Somalian h

Google News Badges are Achievements for Reading

Reading the news used to be about personal edification, or learning about what’s going on in your community. No more. Now it’s a contest. Google is introducing a new feature called Google News Badges, a program that will track what kinds of news items users read online. “The more you read, the highe

All hail "Spazzi," a robot with rhythm

We here at Kill Screen love robots.  So do the editors and contributors of MAKE magazine, whose Vol. 27 is all about the adorable machines.  ‘Spazzi’ (seen above) was created for the issue by Beatbots, a group out of Pittsburgh that “develops robotic characters that defy entrenched notions of robots