After graduating university with a chemistry degree, Ajit Singh went to work as a graphic designer for a soccer company, designing uniforms for clubs across the United Kingdom. He dreamed of making a game, though, and he found his inspiration in The Cove, a 2009 documentary about dolphin hunting in
Metallica (The Black Album) was the beginning of the end for the band. It marks the start of their “sellout” phase, which you may disagree with, but you can’t dispute their change in sound (ostensibly due to producer Bob Rock). Releasing back to back albums entitled Load and Reload is bad enough, bu
Earlier this year, the fine organizers at Portland’s XOXO Festival asked me to interview Ron Carmel, principal of the Indie Fund and co-creator of World of Goo. Ron was a lovely intervieweee and the piece above is a great overview/origin story from start to finish of a successful indie title. We tal
Today featured Kickstarter news both triumphant and tragic: the turn-based strategy game Alpha Colony missed its target funding ($50,000) by $28 and won’t be funded, while Sir, You Are Being Hunted more than doubled its target (40,000 pounds) and will be made. So the former will start over, or die,
From the British indie Landslide, which includes developers who worked on the Grand Theft Auto series and Wipeout, comes Criminalympics, a crime-sports lark very much in the Rockstar vein. The game – which is looking for 100,000 pounds on Kickstarter – takes places in something called the “Staten Is
This past weekend, contestants streamed into Groupon’s SF offices for the annual Drone Games. (They were formerly called the Drone Olympics, but apparently received a cease and desist of from the actual Olympic Committee.) In a sign of the brave new world to come in our drone-infested future, James
-Olivia Metcalf, researcher at the Australian National University, whose PHD research demonstrated that some gamers literally cannot stop thinking about games, even if they try to.
At Kill Screen, our ties to hip-hop run deep. Former KS intern Drew Millard is the genius-level head behind Rap Industry Fan Fiction. Wu-Block is currently blowing out the speakers of our MacBook Air. This is why we are so overjoye to see that Spin has done a commendable public service and compiled