Here’s today’s wrap up of mainstream gaming news: – Activision’s Creative Strategist Robert Bowling, also known as “fourzerotwo” has resigned from his position. – The BioShock: Infinite team has revealed yet another of the big bad guys: The Siren. In other news, the movie has once again been put on
Kill Screen contributor, comics artist, academic, and high-concept game maker Pippin Barr debuts a new game today. It’s called Epic Sax Game and it’s a glorious feat of keyboard jamming, Guitar Hero spoofage, paint-by-MIDI, and Eurovision homage. Check out this video (at your own risk) to see/hear t
Videogaming has a cycle of ebbs and flows—there’s a season for a slew of high-profile games for the holidays, a season for late-summer doldrums sprinkled with arcade and indie offerings, and a season for U.S. Representative Joe Baca, Democrat of California’s 43rd District, to introduce unconstitutio
Video We mentioned performance artist Chris Burden’s new installation Metropolis II, now showing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, once before, but we just discovered this video, directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, that walks us through the work. Per LACMA’s description: Metropolis II
Shay Pierce was a developer at OMGPOP, creator of the immensely popular Draw Something, and was faced with a dilemma. Now that Zynga had acquired his company, should he join the mothership or stay behind? It was Tuesday night. News of the acquisition had been relayed to me only hours before. On Mond
Daniel Johnston, Texas indie muse and king of the hand-drawn album cover, has released a new iPad app called Space Ducks to coincide with the release of his new graphic novel. It is, of course, “intergalactic saga of epic proportions that will make you rethink life, death, existence, and your place
During an appearance on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” for the 20th anniversary of his play Angels in America, Tony Kushner let slip a detail of the “very specific sense” he had about what happened to Joe Pitt—one of the play’s central characters that disappears very ambiguously from the story’s end. Ne
Alright, the Mondays seem to have started wearing off so let’s catch up on the weekend’s news: – Fez, the indie puzzle platformer that has been critically lauded near constantly since it was announced, has finally been officially certified through Microsoft and will soon be making its way on to Xbox