News
Gamification can help motivate us to do boring things, whether it’s working out or engaging in social media. Over at Bit Creature, Lana Polansky explains how gamification is great for motivating us, but can detach us from emotions and feelings that make life interesting. We simply can’t have experie
News
Anna the Red makes ridiculously detailed bento boxes. She’s done bentos of Calvin and Hobbes, Totoro, and now, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP. The making-of video shows all the tweezing and exacto-knifing that went into this meal.
News
The literary event of the new century is here. Not videogame news, you say? Here are 160 reasons you should watch your mouth.
News
Roller Coaster Tycoon is a fun simulation about building and managing theme parks, but if you carry its gameplay into real life, as in this fan video, it gets a little disturbing.
News
The ecoATM analyzes used electronics and identifies them with 97.5 percent accuracy. It then bids for the device. Right now, the kiosks are limited to used smartphones and MP3 players, but we here at Kill Screen think they are a natural fit for consoles and game handhelds, and not just because we’re
News
Gamasutra on the logic behind Sony’s unexciting Tokyo Game Show announcements: Taken individually, each item doesn’t sound particularly exciting (especially this far into a console cycle, when everyone is waiting for hints of the next-generation entries from Sony and Microsoft). But read between the
News
Not only will a Gran Turismo champ race at next month’s Petit Le Mans series, he’ll be racing Nissan’s futuristic and efficient rocket-ship-looking racer, the Delta Wing. For the 10-hour, 1,000-mile Petit le Mans race, Spaniard Lucas Ordonez will be driving, along with American Le Mans vet Gunnar Je
News
BioWare co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk announced their retirement today on the BioWare blog. The studio’s first big success was the Baldur’s Gate franchise, followed by Neverwinter Nights, and, later, the Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchises. Muzyka plans to invest and mentor other entrep
News
Disney’s upcoming film Wreck-It Ralph has a lot of trademarked characters in it. In his interview with Total Film, producer Clark Spencer gives a behind-the-scenes look at the process of getting the necessary permissions. Rich [Moore, director] and I went to E3, and pitched the movie to all the dif
News
While we’re on the subject: Graphic designer Christian Swinehart has created a remarkable website about Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) books, or “game books.” His graphical representations of the branching storylines are beautiful in their own right, and teach lessons about how “branched” a storyl
News
If you’re like me, I’m sorry. But also, if you’re like me, you played hours and hours Diablo 3, and you’re a little bit skeptical about buying another endless point-to-massacre fantasy game mere weeks afterwards. Kotaku has written up a frighteningly comprehensive – in that inimitable Kotaku way – g
News
Remember Choose Your Own Adventure novels? They were great. But flipping to the exact right page was hard to do without spoiling some other part of the story. Thanks to hyperlinked texts, these stories no longer suffer from that problem. If you’ve ever thought of writing a choose-your-own-adventure