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"I hope we can get some of the "dudebro" out of Gears"
A revelation in an otherwise vanilla Reddit Ask-Me-Anything with Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski.
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Enchant U actually about enchanting him.
Confession: I am a huge fan of simulation games. There’s something about building up my stats over time and then being able to win the harvest cooking contest that I love. It’s kind of a niche genre, so I was a little surprised to see Enchant U, a stat-building wizard boarding school simulation for
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Do you really need a Wii U?
As Nintendo rolls out its newest console, the Wii U, I’m left wondering why I need another console. There are plenty of games I haven’t yet played for my current consoles, and if fancy processing power is really necessary for fun I have a PS3 and a PC. Tom Auxier feels the same. Why do we need more
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Puzzle game too difficult? Try taking a break, or get a new brain
You know that frustrating moment, when you’ve tried everything that makes sense in a game, and then you keep trying it? According to some research on insight, that is probably the best time to take a break. Here’s an example of the sorts of problems the study examined: Move any single line from the
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The custom Pokemon plush doll that will terrify guests
Is your living room feeling a bit empty? You might need to make some kind of Pokemon plushie, like this DeviantART user did. It’s life size!
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XCOM 1994 v. XCOM 2012
We here at Kill Screen are all stoked as shit for Fireaxis’ XCOM remake. I have a Mac and can’t replay the original, although I have the circa-’94 floppy disks at home and sometimes in a bout of drunken nostalgia attempt to force them into the SD slot of my Air. Alas. Pathos aside, the wizards over
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Farmville on your computer? So 2011. Here’s a phone, you Luddite
Via Gamasutra: Mounting evidence points to mobile devices replacing social networks as the dominant platform for casual games.
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Wonderputt is an enchanting blend of mini golf and Rube Goldberg.
It’s easy to get lost in the sea of indie games these days. At this year’s Independent Games Festival, I found myself treading water when I came across Brighton-based dev Reece Millidge who was nominated for Excellence in Visual Art. It’s a smaller category, but one of my favorites. I’m fan of aesth
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There is an open world LEGO Lord of the Rings game coming out
The LEGO games are really cute, fun, and you can play them with your nephews without worrying about blood going everywhere. But it can be tiresome to get tracked onto the rails of each linear level. The upcoming LEGO Lord of the Rings promises an open world and a crafting system. True to the LEGO ga
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We didn’t pass chemistry but here are the thermodynamics of gameplay
The laws of thermodynamics are at work when you play a videogame. Raymond Neilson explains his idea of entropy as a metaphor for game-playing in an analysis of Max Payne 3. The process of playing, then, can be seen as equivalent to extracting work from a system for the purposes of “fun”. The non-tr
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Puzzler Gateway an indie platformer mechanic mash-up.
The indie puzzler Gateway combines a plethora of game device tropes, portals, gravity manipulation, self-shadows, and does so unapologetically. David Johnston, the game’s creator, acknowledges the influence of other games: It helps me to see what other ideas people have tried and what works as a gam
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Pulitzer-winning author Junot Díaz explains why videogames suck at writing female characters
From an interview in the Atlantic this week: The Atlantic: It sounds like you’re saying that literary “talent” doesn’t inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You’d think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand