Bloody Histories, Dangerous Communities: Educators’ Ethical Responsibilities Teaching Games
The moral dilemma of teaching with games.
Essay
The Qun Demands It: The Evolution of the Barbarous Other
The secret racism behind high fantasy’s brutish races.
The Ludic Rashomon
A game world made up of many stories of different weight.
A pixel artist renounces pixel art
The “pixel tax” comes to collect.
The rise of the pastoral in videogames
Banished, Harvest Moon, and our need to escape.
Oculus keynote answers question if women have a place in virtual worlds
I have seen the future of virtual reality.
Will a game designer ever win a MacArthur "genius" grant?
918 awards, none to games
Play Along: The Essay and the Game
What videogames can learn from nonfiction, and vice versa.
How Zelda games tap into the Neo-Shamanic and link to the way, way past
Ready? Let’s get heady.
How games like Katamari help us deal with consumerism and the wealth gap
We’ve got a lot of problems in the world. How games like Katamari Damacy give us an answer.
Love to tweet? You’ll love Super T.I.M.E. Force.
“Your past is the prologue to your future.”
How Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima dreamed the future of solar power
In 2003, a little Game Boy Advance title dared to dream of a sun-fueled future. Here’s how Kojima’s vision is becoming a reality.
Do game designers actually need to go to school?
At this year’s IndieCade, academics were out in full force. But does professional school impede game designers’ punk ethos or give them the structure they need survive?
Exhibition of 80s art ignores games for their lack of desire
It took a long time, but videogames are finally being placed in museums as artistic objects to appreciate. The Smithsonian exhibit, “The Art of Video Games” ran from last March until September, giving fans and laymen alike a chance to view and play pivotal games from the nascent industry’s first fou
Press X Not to Die
Games weren’t always an escape from my mental illness. They were one of the symptoms.
Lebron James didn’t kill the NBA, but he did kill NBA videogames
Superteams have made the NBA more exciting, and NBA games a total bore.
Games are too damn long
Why length of playtime should no longer be a defining criteria of the medium.
The presidential debate is going to be boring. Let’s gamify it.
Kill Screen’s suggestions for making the debate watchable, for once.
Why I miss the original World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft is a different game than it was in 2004, a better game. For Luke Winkie and his friends, though, something isn’t quite right.
What will happen to BioWare?
The retirement of BioWare cofounders Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka leaves the beloved developer in transition. Here’s what might happen.
"That awkward moment": social media in Madden
How Twitter made its way from Chad Johnson’s fingertips to Madden 2013.
Love for a Machine
For more than two years, Ryan Kuo has edited for Kill Screen. As he heads off to pursue an M.S. at MIT, he reflects on the life of iPad gaming that is now ending when he gives back the tablet to the company. When is an app more than an app?
Chris Marker: Open-World Pioneer
The late Chris Marker was a forerunner of experimental science fiction and transmedia practice. Today, Henry Crouch reflects on his contributions to art and the open-world game.
A Series of Uninteresting Decisions
The popular airline simulator Pocket Planes may not provide goals, direction, or even motivation, but it does demonstrate the importance of being bored with a videogame.
Love to Worry
Games are a collision of study and play, but they lean heavily on the former. Jason Johnson’s trip into the chaotic mines of Spelunky taught him how to love the inhumanity of the machine.