Kill Screen Magazine's Blog, page 331

Rooftop Cop investigates the "ritual manifestations" of police violence

"At what point does a cop become a threat to the subject they're supposed to protect?"

Super Smash Bros. for 3DS is not a videogame—it’s a galaxy

How deep will you get sucked in?

Julian Assange and M.I.A. walk into an arcade

Who wins? Everybody. 

This may be the best pixel art being made today

A life in dots. 

New Vane trailer is so pretty even its dust is pretty

I never thought I’d be so interested in the dust that kicks up behind someone running. It’s kind of a throwaway. It doesn’t really have any effect on anything. It’s there and then it’s not. But there’s something about the way that Friend & Foe’s new game Vane does it that’s got me watching dust over and over again.

Vane has a simple, mysterious beauty that is equally drawn from its desert setting, its scant details, and the occasional low poly dust cloud. All of this is shown off to full effect in the new trailer. Pulled together from gameplay shown at the Tokyo Game Show, the trailer cuts between man and bird, desert and structure, calm and storm. And for as brief as it is it is still beautiful. Just look at those dust clouds.

There’s a single attack in the new Smash Bros. that defines Nintendo’s thinking

Sweet little axe-wielding Villager.

David Roentgen was the Lebron James of designing cabinets

Look at this guy. David Roentgen was a German cabinetmaker born 270 years ago. He appears to have a powdered wig, or at least old-timey curls in his hair. Check the gold frame on his portrait, etc. There is nothing cool about David Roentgen. 

And yet: David Roentgen is apparently the shit, because the cabinets he made 270 years ago were apparently the freshest cabinets in history, full of hidden compartments, levers and pulleys to transform the creaking pieces of wood right before your eyes. David Roentgen was the Lebron James of cabinetry. Check out this video of a "gaming table" he made:

What the fuck is that? Why is there a storage place for the legs? What is this guy, Jony Ive? Compared to this gaming table, all our battlestations are shitty battlestations. 

Here's another video of a Roentgen piece that is basically designed to embarrass every shitty piece of wood any of us own. The moment when the reading table pops out toward the end? You're clowning, David Roentgen.

I can see why Marie Antoinette (commonly referred to as "the Kanye West of the 18th century") hired David Roentgen to make her own personal cabinetry. Only the best for Marie Antoinette! And David Roentgen was indeed the best, the GOAT, the one cabinetmaker to rule them all. David Roentgen, I love you.

h/t to Core 77

Pixel Rift is a virtual reality arcade game simulator, the most meta game ever

A game inside a game inside of virtual reality. Ouch.

Monet's cosy view of nature lives on inside lisa

Impressionism by way of pixels to compose the endearing relaxation of the Great Outdoors.

These cloud-shaped skyscrapers may give Columbia a run for her money

Only, instead of racism, it's all about eco-friendliness.