The Gameboo is a bit of maker brilliance. The hero who runs Casing the Joint, eight months ago, set out on a project to rip out the viscera of an old Gameboy and rebuild it, stronger and faster. The new guts come from a Dingoo Technologies A330, a handheld system that supports a variety of emulators
Steam, Valve’s distribution and multiplayer platform, makes it really easy to own games, with its digital downloads and seemingly-constant sales on wonderful titles. If you’re like a lot of us here at Kill Screen, Steam almost makes it too easy to own games: we end up with a hard drive full of worth
Jason Johnson is one of the new Kill Screen staff writers, he’s an Alabama fan, which we won’t hold against him, and he’s a peach of a wordsmith. He’s so good, in fact, that the tastemakers at Longreads have selected his wonderful piece from our most recent print issue as a member exclusive. The art
CVG reports that the controller for the soon-to-be-announced PlayStation 4 will not follow the 13-year-old Dual Shock design: A senior games studio source working on an upcoming Sony game says the new system’s controller has undergone numerous iterations, few of which resemble the DualShock build th
Let’s be honest: Square Enix has been treating Final Fantasy like Spielberg and Lucas treated Indy Jones (that’s South Park so, NSFW) for awhile now. And things aren’t looking up. Have you seen the trailer for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XII? Lorda’mercy it looks bad. Wow. So, even worse than t
-From the body text of bill H.R. 287, introduced this week by Democratic congressman Jim Matheson of Utah, which would make ESRB ratings legally binding.
Reus is a latin word that means “guilty” or “culpable”, and it’s a curious name for the forthcoming god-game from independent studio Abbey Games. What are you guilty of? Perhaps we can take the word broadly to mean “responsible”. This makes sense, because in Reus, you play as a omnipresent titan, re
John Thorne at the Atlantic has a terrific writeup on the burgeoning esports scene in the fractured North African nation. It’s your daily reminder that gaming can be a powerful agent for social good. The Libyan gamers themselves face major challenges related to the lack of digital infrastructure in
The charmingly-named redditor “hairyhaggis” started a thread earlier today in r/gaming that would make many an MFA instructor swell with pride: “Describe a game from the point of view of one of its NPCs. Every else has to guess what game and NPC.” His example: [I] “Go on adventure with robot dog and
Here are the games that the Writers Guild of America nominated yesterday for the outstanding achievement in writing for video games: 007 Legends Assassin’s Creed III Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Halo 4 Uncharted: Golden Abyss In all seriouness: is this a jo
You know Jerry Lambert. He’s “Kevin Butler”, the suit-and-tie-wearing, game-obsessd exec of many titles in PlayStation ads. A refresher: Well, the real life execs at Sony recently sued Lambert for breach of contract after he acted in a Bridgestone tire ad in which he played Mario Kart Wii. Sony accu
-Jesse Divinich, vice president of insights and analysis at Electronic Entertainment Design and Research, to GameLife, on the wave of new consoles.
War never changes, but the medium might. United States patent application number 85818163 was filed by Bethesda Softworks LLC on January 8th. It requests a trademark for the Fallout trademark for “Entertainment services in the nature of an on-going television program set in a post-nuclear apocalypti
The first half of the following video details how, exactly, the “cowboy engineers” at Waterloo Labs built the famous item system of Mario Kart into an actual go-kart track. It took some servomotors, remotely-controlled steering columns, and an RFID system so that the karts could communicate with one
That’s the conclusion reached by a University of Michigan study published in the January issue of Psychology of Violence: [Researchers] Saleem and Anderson recruited 204 participants, randomly assigning them to play one of three video games for 30 minutes. Two of the games were versions of “Counter-
Jonathan H. Liu over at Geekdad has a nice writeup of the Kickstarter-funded SKIRMISH: Modern Card Warfare, which he calls a blend of Stratego and War (though he does take a lot of potshots at poor, innocent War. Sounds like a guy who might not be too good at War): I think what I like about the game
Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert has a new game coming out next week, and it looks flippin’ fantastic. In case you’ve been living in a cave, er, under a rock, here is what The Cave looks like: Other than the game’s lovely aesthetic, the thing that stands out most, of course, is Gilbert’s legendary
–Bryony MacKenzie, BBC News.
The Street Fighter games are friezes, not sculptures. Even when they show visual depth of field, they still exist more or less along one axis, and that’s the way we like them; that’s how they exist in our imagination. But what if the games were played in the first person? That’s the question answere
Despite the enormous amount of coverage and sales of the Wii in the early years of this hardware cycle, and despite the fact that the PlayStation 3 appears to have the better upcoming slate of exclusive releases, DFC Intelligence, the market research firm, predicts that the Xbox 360 will have defini
The Orchestre Lamoureux was founded in 1881, and as Simon Parkin points out, premiered Debussy’s Nocturnes, as well as his seminal La mer. The French orchestra also does a damned fine version of Nobuo Uematsu’s “One Winged Angel” (From Final Fantasy 7), as Parkin describes in his wonderful piece abo
Gamers and other humans are understandably disgusted by the special edition of Dead Island: Riptide that comes packaged with a figurine of the legless, armless, headless, rock-breasted body of a zombie victim (no I will not include a picture of it), which publisher Deep Silver calls “a striking conv
Researchers at the University of Manchester and Oxford University have discovered that players of games of sufficient complexity – like chess and poker – do not always, or even often, make rational decisions, because it’s simply too difficult for their brains to measure all of the available options:
-Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, after learning that developers Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been granted bail following a 128-day imprisonment in a Greek jail. The two were arrested in September after Greek authorities charged them with espionage when they were seen filming a military base on the
We the People is the offically-sanctioned way to petition the Obama government: The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We the People provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important i
