Kill Screen Magazine's Blog, page 377

Pushmo World offers great puzzling, but the Wii U deserves more

A legacy of missed potential?

Google answers an age-old question: how fast is dragon travel?

Apparently it's much faster than White Walker travel. Who knew?

Museum of Contemporary Art, LA is doing a YouTube series with all these awesome devs

Add The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles to the list of respected art institutes that are recognizing games as the beautiful design objects that they are. Well, at this point we don’t really need to keep a list anymore. But you should still check out MOCA’s fantastic looking, 13-part web-series that will feature conversations with notables such as Jenova Chen, Kellee Santiago (both of Journey), and Mark Essen (of Nidhogg). Plus, Kill Screen bossman Jamin Warren is in the first episode right off the bat. 

Be sure to tune in.

Virtual reality shamanism is real, totally nuts

God in the machine

New PBS Game/Show looks at their favorite games of E3

In case you got lost in the desert or your Internet has been down all week, the mecca of videogame expos E3 was held in LA this week. Jamin was there basking in the glow of several thousand games being played simultaneously. In fact he’s still out West, so for this week’s PBS Game/Show episode he fills us in on his favorite games of the show. Are his the same as yours? 

Watch the episode to find out, please subscribe, and let us know what you think in the comments!

Watch a paralyzed teen in a mind-controlled robot suit make the inaugural kick at the World Cup

The World Cup was won on the first kick.

We talked to Les Savy Fav’s frontman about his obscene illustrations for the Beowulf boardgame

Grendel meets his match. 

Terry Cavanagh keeps on releasing awesome free stuff

This time it’s a level editor for his hard-as-hell precision platformer VVVVVV, so now you can make your very own happy, crash-landed spacemen torture rooms. Or you could do what I’ll be doing: construct spike-free, milquetoast vestibules and pretend that you’ve actually done something this cruel, cruel game. Either way, level editors are definitely having a bit of a moment, with VVVVVV’s customizer joining Nintendo’s Mario Maker, which lets you arrange question blocks and coinage, and Hotline Miami 2’s E3-announced level maker. 

You can get those creative juices flowing by downloading VVVVVV: Make and Play Edition from Cavanagh’s site.

Watch Tim Schafer get wistful about one of his nearest dearest projects

This mini-documentary of a raspy Tim Schafer talking tenderly about Grim Fandango is just great. It has everything a fan of that classic, soon-to-be-revived, adventure game featuring martini-sipping skull-faced rakes could want. There’s 15 minutes of old photos of the gang at LucasArts; props and design docs and behind-the-scenes ephemera; and Tim wearing a Pixies shirt. But the best part is it closes with a personal oath that DoubleFine is going to do this remastering right, which gave me the impression that it will receive more than a beautiful visual overhaul. This one is Schafer’s baby, after all. 

Valiant Hearts is a very French kind of war game

The bittersweet side of war.