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Bros in mourning
Remembering the true legacy of Gears of War.
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In Excuse Me! the real obstacle course is social decorum
Humanity’s most common phobia, according to a plurality of strange websites that specialize in this topic, is arachnophobia. Fair enough. Creepy crawly spiders are hardly pleasant. But fear is contextual: Your biggest fear when home alone is rarely your biggest fear when at a public event. For resea
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Play free games at the Ace Hotel
Kill Screen is bringing games to the starving masses once again; make sure you come out to the Ace Hotel tomorrow night for the August edition of Playlist, our free public arcade. Local independent music label GODMODE will be DJing once again, and the bar will be stocked. This month, you can practic
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Until Dawn is a smart riff on horror-movie tropes
Play as a bunch of asshole teens who reenact the past half-century of scary movies.
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Circular platformer Circa Infinity is absolutely mesmerizing
Hypnotizing new game will make you trippy, very trippy
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Fear Chatroulette’s walking dead, but in a good way
On a daily basis, Chatroulette is home to far scarier interactions than Realm Pictures’ zombie-themed “Real Life First Person Shooter,” but few—if any—are as endearing. The setup is familiar: A player is dropped into a gameworld and explores it through their avatar’s point of view. This world, it tu
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Voyage out to sea and uncover your own creativity with Trawl
Trawl invokes the solitude of creativity and asks you to explore your own mind Discover the artifacts that make up your very being by diving into exploration game Trawl Uncover the treasures inside your mind with Trawl In the sea exploration Trawl, the treasure you uncover is your own creativity
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The Identity of a Fighter
What do fighting games teach us about identity?
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What new virtual world does the Second Life creator have in store for us?
Virtual reality, today, means Oculus Rift. Project Morpheus. Samsung Gear VR or HTC Vive. But say “virtual reality” just a decade ago, and the first thing that likely would’ve popped into people’s heads is Second Life. Second Life seems ahead of its time To those not active in its virtual world, Se
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The Night That Speaks brings a Slender Man-like ghost to the GameBoy era
This ghost story is a self-reflection on teen years and the fear of growing up.
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Look out, Disney! Banksy’s getting into the theme park business
Say what you will about Dismaland, Banksy’s new theme park, but its tagline—“The UK’s most disappointing new visitor attraction”—might be the rare claim that the artist’s fans and detractors can agree about. Dismaland reimagines Disneyland as a rotting hellscape. Its perimeter walls and Magic Castl
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Vane strives for beauty and consistency, even in its bird physics
It’s the little things that makes Vane one of the most gorgeous looking games in development right now: the graceful twirl of leaves loosening from thin branches, clouds of dust that kick up behind a small, running figure, or the beating of a bird’s wings against the hot desert air. In games, beauty