While we’re all waiting for the Half-Life movie, Ruin, may give us a taste of what’s in store. The short, directed by Wes Ball, has the same quiet dystopian feel with the added cinematic bravado of the Uncharted franchise.
In a talk at TED.com, Jennifer Pahlka discussed the ways that government is thought of, the challenges these conceptions create, and the way that it needs to change. Palka begins by recounting her project which puts coders and designers out of the comfort zone, working to help benefit the government
If the latest Call of Duty taught us anything besides the fact that big explosions are still almost as ridiculous as they are awesome, it’s that videogames can make you a ton of money. The United Kingdom recently followed a trend set by other game development-friendly nations like France, Canada, an
Besides a ridiculous live-action movie spin-off (starring, of all people, Dennis Hopper), Mario’s transition from videogames to other areas of popular culture can sometimes seem few and far between. BuzzFeed has a list of 100 incredible pieces of fan art dedicated to the spunky Italian plumber, incl
Debates about game clones have been all the rage lately, covered in these pages as well as the NYT, but one author has a rousing defense of stealing other people’s ideas. Author Austin Kleon’s new book Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told About Being Creative makes the argument that stealing
Simon Denny. Those who don’t change will be switched off. 2012. We here at Kill Screen are obviously obsessed with screens and London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts is as well. Their upcoming exhibition Remote Control caught our eye and artist’s interaction with the medium of TV certainly has ra
One of the arguments for the existence of games is that they often show you who people really even if language can’t. In a move similar to the Christmas Truce soccer games of World War I, four Western journalists decided to play a game of paintball with members of the Lebanese Muslim military and po
In an interview with NPR last week, Jason Segel outlined the process for turing The Muppets into a reality. Along with director Nicholas Stoller, Segel had earned a reputation on screen as an student in the Judd Apatow school of film-making: a healthy respect for the power of raunchiness. But when t