Review
The violent, lonely minds of Grand Theft Auto 5
Notes from the bleeding edge of reality.
Nora Khan
Review
South Park: The Stick of Truth is about the absurdity of being a "gamer"
The adventures of Douchebag.
Review
Beyond: Two Souls wants to be more than a videogame, but it’s much less
Who’s pulling the strings here?
Article
Wind Waker, GTA V, and the beauty of the videogame selfie
A portrait of the gamer as an young girl.
Review
Shadowrun Returns jacks us into-and out of-the Matrix.
It’s like William Gibson and J.R.R. Tolkien had a baby, and it was really ugly.
Review
The Talking Dead
The first episode of the game version of the popular comic-turned-telefilm The Walking Dead is an examination of truth-telling, silence, and testimony, which the game’s dialogue forces us to grapple with at every twist ‘n’ turn.
Essay
Dealing With Urban Decay
The raw materials of New Marais, the setting of Infamous 2 based on New Orleans, tell a story both longer and more pressing than their digital textures suggest. Nora Khan climbs through its multilayered history.
Dragon Age: Origins
Talking Thinking Believing
Dragon Age through words and deeds
Article
Isolation Chambers
A famous political thriller opens with a scene of KGB officials deploying a dreaded torture technique: complete sensory deprivation. A man is suspended in a vat, in complete darkness, all his senses rescinded. The point of the test is to determine how long it takes for this man to panic to the point
Article
Interview: David Gaider
Excerpts from a conversation with David Gaider, senior writer at BioWare, conducted for the piece “Talking, Believing, Knowing: Making Friends in Dragon Age” in Kill Screen Issue #3.
silent hill
Like a Boss
Grappling with the lords of darkness