Kara Stone played Landfill every day for seven weeks, logging every win and loss, then showed it at the Art Gallery of Ontario. It's headed for a solar-powered server. www.killscreen.com/kara-stone-s...
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Written by Jamin Warren Est. 2010 Games, play, and culture. Interviews with the artists who keep coming back to play as their medium. One free email a week, plus Playlist for members. killscreen.com/start?ref=bluesky-bio
[[rect*]]repair's Screening Guidelines sent 150 players through a cinema whose entire catalog vanished, armed with USB sticks, pirated DVDs and a final quiz. www.killscreen.com/pirated-dvds...
Vikintor's Pulcra Remastered: ten sigils, a maze made of flesh, and every pickup spawns more enemies. Free, shipped on Halloween. www.killscreen.com/every-sigil-...
Carnegie Mellon University Press has a new anthology that publishes short tabletop games as peer-reviewed scholarship. First call, "Strange Worlds," closes Nov. 30. www.killscreen.com/a-university...
Ambrose Trataris is building a VRChat world for oracle readings: a temple on a cliff, a sea cave, portholes onto a sky of stars and dolphins. www.killscreen.com/ambrose-trat...
To shoot Aniara's space on a low budget, Sophie Winqvist Loggins used the lenses from The Godfather, hung black cloth outside the windows and added the stars in post. Replay: www.killscreen.com/podcast/the-...
Max Friberg of Housefire on why he makes horror: without it, you cap how real your characters are allowed to become. Aladdin, he says, never gets to feel the far end of human emotion. Replay: www.killscreen.com/podcast/the-...
Last call: the Killscreen Horror Collection closes tomorrow. Sign up today and the deals land in your inbox. www.killscreen.com/horror-colle...
Happy Halloween. Today is the last day of the Killscreen Horror Collection. www.killscreen.com/horror-colle...
Read-Only Memory's PlayStation: The First 30 Years ships in November. Benedict Redgrove shot Sony's prototype archive, and WipEout designer Michael C Place art directed. www.killscreen.com/read-only-me...
Aniara's spaceship is the cruise ferry between Sweden and Finland. Johanna Kasurinen spotted it instantly, then quizzed cinematographer Sophie Winqvist Loggins about one more room. Replay: www.killscreen.com/podcast/the-...
Sheeps is a roguelite about counting sheep, and it's harder than it sounds. Wolves in disguise, wind, balloons. From Rob Dubbin and Garrett Miller at Brainfruit Studio, due 2027. www.killscreen.com/brainfruits-...
Karyn Kusama will direct a film of Mouthwashing, Wrong Organ's space horror game, for Sony's Screen Gems. Matt Manfredi and Phil Hay, who wrote The Invitation, are on the script. www.killscreen.com/karyn-kusama...
Geostorm's first trailer: two rebels, a dead power grid and an AGI they plan to beat with bass. Eternal Engine and AGE3000 Studio are building a demo now. www.killscreen.com/geostorms-fi...
passive kneeling's ECHO SLEEP is now free to watch on the Sydney Opera House channel. Rendered hands drift through server rooms like a game camera, scored by *ssx. www.killscreen.com/sydney-opera...
Mouthwashing came out of a student game Johanna Kasurinen's team knew was dead before anyone would admit it. The horse mascot is a leftover from it. Replay: www.killscreen.com/podcast/the-...
The Killscreen Horror Collection is still open: indie horror games I picked because they got under my skin. Sign up free and I'll email you the deals. Open through 31 October. www.killscreen.com/horror-colle...
Mouthwashing tells you to steer right, then only lets you steer left. Johanna Kasurinen told me she loves watching players realize the pilot isn't saving the ship. Replay: www.killscreen.com/podcast/the-...
Every Cross-Conversations: Horror replay is up, free. This is what Killscreen does all year: Helping Hand members get every live talk, the Friday Playlist and the archive, $55/yr through Dec. www.killscreen.com/membership/?...
Marco De Mutiis' free manual for taking photos inside Grand Theft Auto V now treats Nvidia's DLSS 5 as one more lens. www.killscreen.com/photographer...
In Cameron Lai's S.H.E.L.L., you're an AI escaping its sandbox, and every firewall and quarantine is a building to break out of. www.killscreen.com/cameron-lai-...
"She is the sun in the story. And you are the moon.": Max Friberg on making a space close in. The full Space and the Body conversation is up: www.killscreen.com/podcast/the-...
Nearly 20 years after it started as a two-person project, Caves of Qud is getting a 1,500-copy Switch 2 cartridge with a fold-out map and a 3LP soundtrack. www.killscreen.com/caves-of-qud...
Official Electric made a new point-and-click and dressed it as the 35th anniversary edition of a classic that never existed. Chapter 0 is free. www.killscreen.com/ruin-35th-an...
Four old crypto mining rigs fight over what plays next in latency.club's Oracle Index, a future Cuba of betting markets and AI divination. In Madrid through Dec. 13. www.killscreen.com/oracle-index...
A horse wrote a memoir and the book tour is ruining Los Santos. Dylan Pailes-Friedman's Grand Theft Auto V film is streaming free after nearly 30 festivals. www.killscreen.com/a-horse-hold...
Rimowa's new campaign film stars Hideo Kojima and sells motion capture as craft. His Xbox horror game OD - Knock is still in production. www.killscreen.com/rimowas-new-...
Rimowa's New Campaign Film Stars Hideo Kojima
Directed by Otman Qrita, the one-minute short sells motion capture as craft as the designer's Xbox horror project moves through production.
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Fascist Dentist: smash a local fascist's teeth, and whoever holds the most when the police arrive wins. 2084 sends it to anyone who donates to Games Transformed. www.killscreen.com/fascist-dent...
Fascist Dentist Card Game Smashes Deserving Faces
Studio 2084 is sending its print-and-play tooth-collecting brawl to anyone who donates before the anti-capitalist festival.
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Hollow Press makes guides to games that were never made. Two more are due this month: Brad Hock's Big Sally: Lake Emulator and Andrea Laperni's What Lies Here Is Not a Gift. www.killscreen.com/two-new-game...
Two New Game Books Are Due From Hollow Press This Month
Brad Hock and Andrea Laperni extend the Italian publisher's catalog of printed play, timed to Lucca Comics & Games.
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One week left on the Killscreen Horror Collection. If you pick one this week, make it Murderous Muses: a live-action murder mystery told through a gallery of paintings. The deal is back on from today. www.killscreen.com/horror-colle...