Kill Screen Magazine's Blog, page 356

Within's impossible spaces play with your anxiety

You're a lab rat chasing the cheese around a maze devised to break your mind. 

Chambara is the Samurai Jack game of our cubo-futurist dreams

Confirmed: there are ninjas everywhere. 

Japanese fashion house Kenzo showcases new line with interactive gallery

Totally surreal.

In this game, firearms are all the magic you'll need

At first glance of Aegis Defenders, with its robed teen hero and wizened old man duo, you may think, "Wow, what a beautiful 16-bit fantasy game!"

On one account, you'd be right. This game has an undeniably gorgeous, hand painted art style that redefines what 16-bit is capable of. But on the other you'd be dead wrong, because Aegis Defenders is much closer to a post-apocalyptic tale than anything fantastical. In fact, the only "magic" you'll be wielding here are turrets and drones left over from an ancient civilization (spoiler alert: it's probably us).

After humanity suffered some unspecified calamity, the world has returned to the dark ages in Aegis Defenders. Now, microwaves are considered dark magic and robots reign as demi-gods. You play as two Ruinhunters, seeking a legendary weapon called the Aegis, in order to save your new home from Shem (one of those aforementioned artificial intelligence demi-gods.)

The main thrust of gameplay features tactical, single-player co-op tower defense. The player must switch between multiple characters of unique classes, such as Clu the Hunter and her (yes, she's a girl) grandfather Bart the Engineer. GUTS, the studio creating Aegis Defenders, plans to add an option for local co-op if they reach their first stretch goal on Kickstarter. Then all our postapocalyptic Secret of Mana dreams will have come true.

Are parents to blame for the popularity of Minecraft?

Those helicopter parents....

What do we mean when we call someone a booth babe?

The answer isn’t quite as simple as we think.

A review of Sokobond, a (fun, we promise) game about chemistry

Neither here nor there.

Thecatamites presents 11 strange and joyful handcrafted music games

I mean: what did you expect. 

I had a panic attack while playing The Walking Dead. Is this a good thing?

What games can help us overcome.

Of doom metal, women, and videogames

The walls came tumbling down.