You know how it is. You’re minding your own business, eating a sandwich when you hear your aquarium shatter. You find your goldfish dying. Your room destroyed, you discover the source of all this destruction: Tekken 3. Also, note the end of the commercial, when claiming that a game isn’t, in fact, a
Fear no more: instant mainstream videogame news has come to the rescue! -Sony panel looks into the future at Gamescom. -Take a look at Dante’s new moves in these new Devil May Cry photos and videos. –Borderlands 2 offering “millions upon millions of possible weapons.” Oh, joy! –Fall in love with th
Get ready for a blast of mainstream videogame news! -Sony follows Nintendo’s lead and slashes PS3 price tag. -PS Vita to get social networking, Assassin’s Creed, more. -Epic Games confirms 5 new titles are in development. -Gameloft looking to hire 145 new employees. -Windows Phone 7 enthusiasts c
Inspired by Islamic, Gothic, Archimedean and modern architecture, and reminiscent of the colors, caverns and trippiness of games like Psychonauts and Child of Eden, Architects of Air’s Luminaria have inflated all over the world. Designed by AoA leader Alan Parkinson, these interactive displays are m
Permadeath. Fatalities. 1-Ups. Health regeneration. Dysentery. We understand these as part of the history of videogame mortality. While we recognize the conventions of death in videogames, we rarely think of videogame death treatment in terms of chronology. And that’s exactly what Patrick Shaw, ove
A recent study from an unlikely source has put a spotlight on the importance of games to their female players. Seems that women are just as likely to play online as their male counterparts. The survey of 2,052 people was commissioned by Doritos and found that 49 per cent of women play online games,
Now this is cool. This kickstart project, revolights, embeds an Akira-style lighting system into the wheels of your bicycle, making you feel like some kind of futuristic bike hero. But this invention does more than make you look awesome: On the road, bike lights contribute to rider safety in two w
We make getting mainstream videogame news so simple it’s a thing of beauty. -Videogame theme park Game Nation has partnered up with Atari. –Get immersed in Gears of War 3—in 3D! -“Citizen Skywatch” website may be pointing to a new Take-Two announcement. -Guillermo del Toro lets loose on inSANE ga
Get the whole family together; it’s time for some more mainstream videogame news! -Eidos-Montreal and Nixxes Software allay any fears over Deus Ex: Human Revolution for PC. -EA is looking forward to the holiday season. -Nintendo’s patent for a “Massively Single-Player Online Game” has been publish
We have easy mainstream videogame news in our crosshairs. –Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC video goes in-depth and behind the scenes. -Zynga isn’t drawing as many paid players as one might think. –MotorStorm Apocalypse update lets loose on details. -Valve may be releasing a new Counter-Strike title.
Welcome to the next level of mainstream videogame news! -EA is “revisiting” the Alpha Centauri series. -Eidos Montreal’s Jean-Francois Dugas talks about taking Deus Ex: Human Revolution to new places. -THQ has closed two Australian studios. -Those who pre-order Trackmania 2: Canyon will be granted
We have a soft spot for arcades, understandably. We showed an excerpt of Kurt Vincent’s forthcoming documentary Arcade at our film festival last month and so out of the gates comes another look at a beloved arcade. Since its opening nearly sixty years ago in lower Manhattan, Chinatown Fair was a pla
Let’s unlock some more mainstream videogame news! -Steam is implementing Steam Trading, allowing players to trade giftable games and in-game items. –Battlefield 3 will not be coming to Steam. –Everything you ever wanted to know about Dishonored before playing it. –Take a look at Modern Warfare 3’
Everyone loves Portal’s iconic Companion Cube, but few of us actually know why. In fact, it’s this illogical, fierce love for an inanimate object that does very little for us that made the “character” so interesting. Still, wouldn’t it be nice if it was useful? That seems to have been the thinking b
Welcome Back! Enjoy some more mainstream videogame news! –Check out the newest Borderlands 2 details. –Driver: San Francisco will have no demo. -The new Dead island co-op trailer is all about teamwork. -Team Bondi has sold all its assets and IP to production studio Kennedy Miller Mitchell. -Watch
For many of us, there was a time when that gruff, confident voice intrigued us, when the glimpse of a giant pixelated boss monster caused us to to consider the wonders of the videogame medium, and when the catch phrase, “Hail to the king, baby!” inspired us to new levels of solitary confidence. This
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
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
Steven Applebaum and Ryan Hoss, founding members of site Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive snagged an interview with half of the infamous film’s final screenwriting team, Parker Bennett. The lengthy interview covers the span of the film’s creative development, the trials of being over-budget and o
Happy Monday! Let’s race through some mainstream videogame news! -Celebrate Samus Aran’s 25th birthday with this fanmade video. –Modern Warfare 3 has been confirmed for Wii. –Skyrim boss thinks games are too costly; Skyrim remains $60. –Take a look at the latest The Walking Dead screens and deta
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
