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With the election coming up, military drone strikes are getting more attention. President Obama has increased the role of drones in the military and Mitt Romney has given every indication he would continue the trend if he wins the election. Unmanned, the grand jury prize winner at Indiecade, deals w
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When I can’t bring myself to finish a game, sometimes I watch the ending in a user-made play video. You know the ones… they usually have play commentary that no one wants to hear. But there is an art to realtime videogame commentary. This smooth jazz of Let’s Play of Sonic originally appeared on the
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In the last few years, games with a “retro” or “nostalgic” style have become popular. Some of the games riding the childhood wave are excellent. Brendan Keogh found that Retro City Rampage‘s CRT overlay brought to mind fond memories: I could remember what the lounge room of my family’s house was lik
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We here at Kill Screen have had a love affair with sling shots since we first laid eyes on a plucky elf with a wedge of wood and flawless aim: Then we grew up. The slingshot made attempts sure; once I saw a forty dollar oak sligshot on the counter at a J. Crew, but it looked uncomfortable, and I fel
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Minecraft was the most popular game on Xbox Live for the week of October 15. More popular than Call of Duty and FIFA. Yep.
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RAGE Control takes away a player’s ability to shoot enemies if his/her heart rate gets too high: Dr Simone Fox, a clinical and forensic psychologist, and a senior lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, said it was important to use this type of technology to demonstrate to children why the
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Long story short: Robert Florence’s piece lambasting swag-hungry game journos called out one in particular, who publically defended her right to enter a raffle for a free PS3 at the Games Media Awards. Lauren Wainwright’s (who, it turns out, does undisclosed work for major game studios in addition t
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Leigh Alexander’s column today in Gamasutra bites off a lot — games literacy, game awards, and the evolution of game writing. It’s hard to disagree, though, with the argument that holds the piece together: gaming culture doesn’t properly distinguish between vastly different quantities (casual gaming
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That’s not a joke. Japanese company Cyberdyne announced a new human-worn robot suit that can assist movment: – – – “Robot Suit HAL” is a cyborg-type robot that can supplement, expand or improve physical capability. When a person attempts to move, nerve signals are sent from the brain to the muscles
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Yesterday, Unfinished Swan mastermind Ian Dallas told our Yannick LeJacq that deliberate humor in games is hard. He didn’t say anything, however, about pre-release mockumentary trailers. Rad Dragon, the indie behind Shove Pro, a new chase-scene and shove game, released this week a short about their
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The Electronic Software Ratings Board announced a new, streamlined way to rate the flood of digital-download games washing into the market: The ESRB’s new “Digital Rating Service” gives developers and publishers access to a “brief but detailed online questionnaire” to define a product’s content, age
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Burlington, Mass youth program Guard Up, Inc. is teaching kids how to live-action role play. Meghan Gardner told Wired: “This program is designed to engage kids and teens in live, story-based adventures where they play a character in an ongoing storyline.” Sounds like fun to me. As that saying goes,