Kill Screen Staff

Mostly Dark Souls, games from the West, and iPhone games, according to a survey of 80 key industry figures in Japan. Here’s a rundown of the noteworthy: Keiji Inafune, creator of Megaman and long time Capcom bigwig, was still enamored with Angry Birds. Fumito Ueda, the director who bore the lavish I

Supergiant Games has posted a impromptu performance of Build That Wall, a song from Bastion’s acoustic Americana soundtrack. A throwback to action-RPGs of the early 90s, Bastion, and its soundtrack, were well-recieved this year. Audio director Darren Korb and vocalist Ashley Barrett perform a soulfu

Wish the fruits of your labor in Minecraft existed outside the computer screen. Now there is a way to make your creations tangible. Shapeways, a company that specializes in printing 3D objects (think Spread Shirt for paper-crafts) allows you to print out your characters, structures, and for the righ

According to CinemaBlend, the Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) is planning a retrospective for legendary Canadian film director David Cronenberg, whose credits range from indie hits and Academy-admired works, from The Fly and Dead Ringers to The History of Violence and this year’s Carl Jung character st

Last November, the first videogame expo in Saudi Arabi was held in Riyadh. How was it? According to a firsthand account, pretty much like any other game show, complete with long lines, cosplay, and a Marvel vs. Capcom 3 tournament. After finally pushing my past the crowd inside the entrance, I disco

Are machines capable of understanding and abiding by moral principles?  How would we go about teaching them ethics?  These questions and more are explored in an article published by the New York Times entitled The Future of Moral Machines. The article explores the possibility that, as computing powe

Typically, first year film students get the shaft, not touching a camera until their sophomore or junior years. However, University of Southern California freshmen got an early taste of collaborative filmmaking this fall when their School of Cinematic Arts introduced Reality, a card-collecting game

Thanks to the new movie Real Steel, in which Hugh Jackman commands a large rocking and socking robot in the future, there’s been renewed interest in Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots. It turns out that despite its silly premise, the robot boxing in Real Steel follows the original theme of Rock’ Em Sock’ Em R

We’ve all heard that mobiles are keeping us from working-but are they actually keeping us from zoning out? Nick Bilton has an interesting New York Times blog post about how mobiles are limiting the essential human capacity to daydream:  Jonah Lehrer, a neuroscientist and the author of the soon-to-be

Flash Flash With the recent news that Minecraft legos might be on their way sometime soon, maybe its time for Lego to get political.  Parental discretion is advised. –Yannick LeJacq [via Slate V]

It seems that even in a galaxy far, far away people still like to boogie.  Rock Paper Shotgun have reported a little-known easter egg whereby entering the /getdown chat command will cause your character to switch into “shameless rug-cutting” mode in BioWare’s popular Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO.

A recent innovation in sex education has interesting possibilities for social innovation in the U.S., The New York Times reports: In Chicago, teenagers can subscribe to Sex-Ed Loop, a program endorsed by the district that includes weekly automated texts about contraception, relationships and disease

While we were busy fine-tuning our Game of the Year list, torrent sites were tallying up the most pirated software of the year. Crysis 2 comes out on top in the PC games category in 2011. On Xbox 360 Gears of War 3 receives the same honor, while Super Mario Galaxy 2 scoops the title of most pirated

Using a deck of cards and city planning skills similar to those used in Sim City, Jerry Gretzinger has been plotting out a map of an imaginary world, which has taken on a life of its own. The result is an endless, procedurally dynamic work of art that could be called a solitary game of Civilization.

My New Years resolution: No more posts about Legos… after this one! The Guardian has accounted for 2011 by collecting the most memorable events of the year built in Lego, including the royal wedding, 11-11-11, and OWS. Seeing alien protesters being pepper-sprayed kind of helps me get over how incred

Finally, a toy for all the parents of kids begging for a new puppy but don’t realize what it means to walk and feed one every day! Or failing that, what better way is there to teach your child the importance of a balanced breakfast than with a fuzzy dancing bacon doll that continually proclaims its

The first thing I thought when I tried out the recently updated Xbox dashboard was that it didn’t look too bad. The second thing I thought was “I CAN’T FIND INDIE GAMES!” It turns out, they have been stuck under a layers of menus where they are likely to go unseen, and indie developers are unhappy.

Kotaku recently ran an interesting piece about a UK treatment group preparing to tackle gaming as the latest manifestation of addictive behavior. Brian Crecente reports: Their study found that more than a third of those surveyed above the age of 16 think they know of at least one person addicted to

In a move that does not portend well for their future as an airline, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is rolling out a new feature that allows passengers the option to choose their seatmates by looking at their Facebook profile (sorry, “timeline”). If you like each other, you sit together. Kind of like OkCu

Games Brief reports some good news and some bad news regarding games in the iTunes App Store. First, the bad news: four percent of iOS games make significant money, aka over a million dollars. But the good news is some games make a lot more than a million dollars! Infinity Blade has made, like, twen

You’ve probably heard plenty already about academic/prankster Ian Bogost’s Cow Clicker, his honest attempt to troll Farmville that turned out to be a quite clickable Facebook game in its own right. I know I have. But it never ceases to amaze me how devoted some players are to clicking cows. A recent

Bitmob has a post detailing something we already knew already: there is stuff in videogames that might kill you. But the list is worth checking out, especially if you didn’t already know to avoid the giants in Skyrim, or that if your avatar encounters a shark in any game ever, you’re probably hosed.

Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series boasts an expert level of voice acting and dialogue, alongside equally impressive environmental and character artwork bringing the charm of Indiana Jones to PS3. But in a recent talk with Eurogamer, creative director and writer Neil Druckmann said Naughty Dog still has