Now let’s zoom through some more mainstream videogame news! – Get the latest details on Team Meat’s The Binding of Isaac. –Watch Tim Schafer pitch Once Upon a Monster to Cookie Monster. –Capcom plans to introduce a new game at ComicCon. –Take a look at these screens for A Game of Thrones: Genesis.
Novak Djokovic might have won Wimbledon this year. But the real competition was up in the players’ hotel rooms. Perennial champ Rafael Nadal and Scotsman Andy Murray face off regularly, both on the court and on the digital pitch of their PS3, The Herald Scotland reported. The trash talking ahead of
Next time you find yourself at a Dave & Buster’s (or something like it), keep your eyes open for a mammoth-sized version of Fruit Ninja. The arcade setup contains all of the same touch-screen fruit-killing you might expect from Fruit Ninja, but it doesn’t come without its limitations: The touch scr
The game itself may not have much of a plot, but that hasn’t stopped producers Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Gigi Pritzker from starting work on the film. Their track record can be deemed “mixed”: For di Bonaventura, Space Invaders is the latest of a string of projects based on 80s touchstones. He is
Now, intrepid gamer NotEntirelySure didn’t necessarily reach the lowest possible score in the NES clasic Super Mario Bros., but he did set quite a standard with 600 points —and zero deaths— using an emulator and keyboard with no save states or slowdowns. Simply consider all the coins, enemies and he
The work of Rhett Allain, associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University and science blogger for Wired.com, inspired physics teacher John Burk to combine beloved indie game Angry Birds with the study of physics. And so far, Burk’s experiment has been pretty darn successful —havi
ETC-Press, publisher of Well Played 1.0 and 2.0, has released a third and final journal. Edited by Drew Davidson, Well Played 3.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning reflects on meaningful play experiences from contributing authors, including our friend Simon Ferrari. The site describes the journal: Fo
Get ready for another dose of mainstream videogame news! –Left 4 Dead 2’s upcoming DLC will breath new, um, life into the zombie-infested FPS. -Kings and queens of the 2011 Pokemon Video Game National Championships have been crowned. -The new Batman: Arkham City trailer is all riddles. -Sony chie
If you’re of a certain age, you likely recall the program D.A.R.E., an attempt at teaching school-aged children the dangers of drug use and abuse. I remember the black t-shirt with red lettering, but little else. Perhaps such lessons are taught more effectively through interactive play. Two students
First, humans played chess with other humans. Seeking tougher competition, humans began playing chess against machines. The International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has taken this to the logical conclusion, pitting Machine vs. Machine in the annual World Computer Chess Championships. If only
Over at art store 20×200, the work of Hollis Brown Thorton is dealing with questions of nostalgia, story-telling, and myth-making. The artist’s statement below: Osiris Mountain represents the outdated things that are still around-like ideas or beliefs that no longer serve their original purpose-and
In honor of Independence Day, help Kill Screen celebrate the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to uphold video games’ free speech rights with your very own Brown vs. EMA t-shirt. Did we mention Kill Screen was cited in the decision? Check out p. 32 if you don’t believe us. Granted it was by Justic
Anyone who registered on Friendster in the early 2000s might have received an email recently, explaining the prime social network’s recent move into gaming. Here is an excerpt from that letter, in which CEO Ganesh Kumar Bangah discusses Friendster’s influence and how it plans to move forward: Friend
You wouldn’t know it, but SoulCalibur’s Ivy Valentine, Sheeva from this year’s Mortal Kombat and the Medivac Pilot from Starcraft II were all voiced by the same San Diego woman. Voice actress Lani Minella has contributed to over 500 video games since 1992. Her versatility is owed in part to her four
In their 1979 hit single, “Computer Games”, New Zealand/Aussie New Wave band Mi-Sex addressed questions about computer technology we still feel the need to ask. On the other hand, one could handily beat this indie game just by singing along to the chorus. –Lana Polansky
24 Caret Games is bringing Retro/Grade to the PSN later this year, a shmup concerned with time manipulation. Fitting, then, that their trailer is a time-lapse video of developer Matt Gilgenbach crunching code and little else. Ben Kuchera of Ars Technica spoke with Gilgenbach about the decision. Last
Enjoy another calorie-light helping of mainstream videogame news! -You probably won’t find Battlefield 3 on Steam. -Ken Levine shares quite a bit about BioShock Infinite. -Bethesda announces Dishonored for 2012. -Get to know PlanetSide 2 with these new screens and trailer. -New Terraria version o
What does miso soup say about game collection? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Emily Flynn-Jones explores the tiny differences between Japanese and Western game releases, what that says about the culture identity, international politics and the little differences that make Western and Japanese games s
Have a nice refreshing glass of mainstream videogame news! –“Meet the Cars” in this trailer for Driver: San Francisco. -Retired Sony engineer has accused Nintendo of patent infringement over the 3DS. –Torchlight has broken over one million overall sales. -Sony is certain the Vita will make develo
Our dreams of living the renegade life of a treasure hunter carry on: During the past week, a team of experts appointed by India’s supreme court has opened five vaults dedicated to the deity Lord Vishnu to uncover an enormous hoard of gold idols, jewellery studded with diamonds, emeralds and other p
When playing Deep Sea, the player wears a mask that plunges them into complete darkness and tasks them with carefully listening to instructions and responding with the aim of killing an invisible sea monster: The sense of being surrounded by invisible dangers is reinforced by the reality of playing
