Kill Screen Archives: Jason Johnson

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The Kill Screen Review: Metro: Last Light turns up the gas

Metro: Last Light has great atmosphere. But don't inhale.

May 21 Reviews

Meet the man who's been playing the same Pokémon character for a decade

How far would you go to keep your favorite videogame character alive?

May 16 Interviews

Inside the strange and confusing world of Kickstarter consultants

The success of the crowd-funding site has birthed a cottage industry of consultants. Is it really worth it?

May 15 Articles

How The Perfect Woman answers Wikipedia's male bias

Society is always putting idealized representations of women in your face. The Perfect Woman says forget about it.

May 8 Articles

Jason Rohrer hid a board game in the Nevada desert. So we went looking for it.

There's only one copy of A Game for Someone. And it's buried somewhere in the Nevada badland.

May 1 Articles

The Kill Screen Review: Monaco will steal your time and your heart

Andy Schatz's long-awaited Monaco is a deft tribute to the heist film, but builds a world all its own.

Apr 29 Articles

A survival horror game that puts you as a baby in a crib, Among the Sleep is only getting started.

A Norwegian studio captures the fear of childhood with the eeriest of intentions. Also, trolls!

Apr 25 Articles

Monaco's Andy Schatz takes us on the ultimate heist

Pocketwatch Games founder goes deep on what makes a good heist movie. Drama ensues.

Apr 23 Interviews

Introducing DRONE, an ethically-bending card game for the guilty American

Sonny Rae Tempest wants you to laugh at drone warfare. You'll feel terrible about it. You should.

Apr 17 Articles

So what makes a "queer" game anyway?

Game designers at the QUILTBAG game jam have an answer.

Apr 11 Articles

Videogames need fewer Metacritics, more Roger Eberts.

Where all my critics at?

Apr 5 Articles

So long LucasArts, Jet Li endorses pro gaming, and Facebook phone humor

Apr 5 News

Face-on with Oculus Rift: My eyes loved it, but not my stomach.

The virtual realities of Oculus Rift are an ecstatic spectacle, but bring Dramamine.

Apr 4 Articles

How SimCity's Will Wright wants to use your memories in the cloud to talk to aliens

Collect all of your memories and send them to space and back!

Apr 1 News

Forget Mass Effect. NASA wants to put you in space for real.

Mar 28 News

Snake goes Rag & Bone in the making of Metal Gear 5

Mar 28 News

Far Cry 3 writer battles critics on Twitter, summons drug PSAs for defense

Mar 27 News

The dream of virtual foosball is alive and well...in Jordan

Mar 26 News

Tiny Games has a game for every occasion: drinking at the bar, break-ups, and possibly funerals

The app Tiny Games has hundreds of spontantious games for you to play literally anywhere. We talked to Margaret Robertson about the most inappropriate places to play silly games, and why that might not be as bad as you think.

Mar 25 Interviews

Want to know what happens to your body after 56 hours of Missile Command?

Hallucinations. Fatigue. Sleep deprivation. Madness. Victor Sandberg saw it all during his record-breaking Missile Command run.

Mar 21 Interviews

Dust off those MFAs. 19th century masters come to life in "artist simulation" game.

A history thesis that pieces together Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet, Avant-Garde is great because it steals almost everything.

Mar 18 Articles

NASA game jam proves the future of space is at play

The Dark Side of the Jam game jam is NASA's latest attempt to reinvigorate the general populace's foundering interest in space. It seemed to have worked for this group of Brazilian game jammers.

Mar 15 Articles

Rewind: How a tuna fishing documentary and heavy drinking inspired the launch of Ridiculous Fishing

More than a year ago, we interviewed the team behind the then-nascent Ridiculous Fishing. With the game finally available, we decided to revisit our visit.

Mar 14 Articles

Robin Arnott engineers joy with heavy breathing, chants, and echolocation.

We talk to Deep Sea creator Robin Arnott about SoundSelf, the euphoric, psychedelic, and amazing joy-producing software that likes to be sung to.

Mar 13 Articles

Was game show Legends of the Hidden Temple exploitative, hilarious or just schadenfreude?

Mar 8 News

We predicted the $2m Torment project on Kickstarter last year

Mar 8 News

Between Lincoln and Einstein, who would win in an Eternal Duel of Wits?

Mar 7 Articles

Board game Dog Nose Knows explains exactly what's going through your puppy's head

Mar 6 Articles

An Arabic translation of Ocarina of Time blurs the boundaries of culture and art

A group of fan translators spent three years translating a game they could already read pretty well. Why? Because Ocarina of Time looks stunning in Arabic.

Mar 5 Articles

The glorious propaganda of Eve Online

Mar 4 News

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