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The Eye blog has some amazing images from Galt Toys today in recognition of a new exhibition of Ken Garland’s design work for the manufacturer. Speaking about the work, Garland sheds some light on how toy and game manufacturers began to see their products in terms of the unified design of a branded
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Today at Kill Screen Richard Clark asked if a alternate reality game centered on being chased by virtual zombies could finally inspire him to exercise (spoiler alert: it does, but not nearly as much as being single can). Turns out the existence of a mobile app this ridiculous might be a symptom of a
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Sci-Fi-O-Rama has an long and detailed look at the vector art of games from the late 80s to early 90s. That particular art-style seems both dated and futuristic and with all the talk about the “New Aesthetic,” it’s a thrilling nod to the creative, generative power of machines to both document what w
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For decades, the brooding creativity of poets and writers has run hand in hand with mania and depression. As David Dobbs points out in a reading of Jonah Lehrer’s Imagine, prominient British novelists and poets faced psychological illness: Nearly 40 percent of the successful creative people [researc
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What’s the latest way that terrorists may be communicating with each other? Apparently through their videogame consoles. While online games ofWorld of WarcraftandBattlefieldused to be the sole territory of aggressive gamers, homophobic middle schoolers, and all types of angry trolls, the Department
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This short, created by Olan Rogers on just seven hundred dollars, makes me interested to see what a big budget Mega Man film could be like. Video [Via io9]
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And now we’re back! From PAX East! We just walked in to see you here with all this news just released! – GTA V has been rumored to be launching this October. – The Wii U is rumored to be launching at a 300 dollar price point. – Epic games, makers of testosterone-fueld franchises like Gears of War an
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Video At PAX East this weekend, I ran into Alex Schwartz, chief scientist (?) at Owlchemy Labs, who showed me a demo of their upcoming mobile title Jack Lumber. Why are lumberjacks so mad? Because the trees killed the ones they love and it’s up to you to take action. Somewhere between the pacing of
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In an article at Wired, Angela Watercutter spoke with a few proponents of the digital revolution in lterature. The landscape of eBooks is changing. Publishers have recognized their success and now creators are being freed to do with the medium what they had hoped for; they hope to “reinvent storytel
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Video We love games of all shapes and sizes, and guess what? So does the rest of the world. This is part of a larger project to document a homegrown game from every country in the world. The binary is such a pure form. Either or. Black or white. Right or wrong. Win or lose. It’s easy. Stanley Kubric
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It’s that time of the year again! Kill Screen is looking for interns this summer for editorial, art, and sales/marketing. If you’re interested, apply here.
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Next weekend Rhizome will be hosting another round of its annual Seven on Seven Conference. Bringing together one artist and one technologist, the conference is excellent model of collaboration in the digital age by bringing together two sets of creators that are not always in conversation. In 2010,