Kill Screen Magazine's Blog, page 326

The Black Glove is like BioShock's opium-riddled older sibling

All you need to know is that there's a space minotaur involved.

A family of English architects is rebuilding Iraq

Nasiryah, Kut, and Kufa are reimagined from afar.

Totem's Sound takes a cynical look at American colonialism

Digital colonialism gets a new look. 

NHL 15 highlights all the problems of annual sports games

Notes from the purgatory of menus.

What TIME got wrong about The Last of Us

No photographer could capture what made Naughty Dog’s game great.

The future is not dark and awful, says this online series

How will you shape the United States of the not-so-distant future?

Impressionism goes goth in the roguelike Children of Morta

Well, this is ... unexpected. Just yesterday I wrote about the influx of absurdly, lushly animated dark-fantasy pixel-art games, and here comes Children of Morta, which is like the apotheosis of the form. Its two-minute trailer starts with something I've not really seen before: a landscape which seems to be finding the middle ground between impressionist Dutch painting and pixel art. And then it goes black-metal as shit: storm clouds roll in, cursing the scene, a man jogs through a bleary forest, a family idles grimly around a fireplace. The actual game looks as much Zelda dungeon-crawly as it does Hyper Light Drifter sumptious action-y, full of subterranean top-down fighting and puzzle-solving, intercut with scenes of domesticity. 

Not much more is known about the game now, but you can watch the trailer below, and wonder, with me, how this rush of good-looking games will actually play. 

Here's a game that recreates the futility of finding love online

Click click click, indeed. 

Gorge, a food-horror JRPG, gives videogames something to chew on

Food: apparently it's more than just a health potion.

Shaking off the allegories of Spirits of Spring

The follow-up to Papo y Yo is of two minds.