Kill Screen Staff

"We all know that you need good computer simulations to keep you in a constant state of anxiety."

President Bill Clinton goes all ludological on us.

"I think there’s going to be a big resurgence of people hearing music live. As people become more isolated in front of their screens, they’ll look for more excuses to get together. Music’s a good excuse for that."

David Bryne in the Daily Beast on the future of music. You could say the things about games and indie arcades, no?

NERF FIGHT! Ok, now that your autonomic nervous system is about to explode, read this NERF history

From Wired, the ultimate NERF story: The ball was first released in 1970 in a small black box whose packaging urged, “Throw it indoors. You can’t damage lamps or break windows. You can’t hurt babies or old people.” Also, this:

iOS base-jumping classic AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! is 99 cents today.

Marcel Duchamp already explained videogames for you.

From his 1954 treatise “The Creative Act:” The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. That was easy.

Kill Screen and Pitchfork Present Soundplay Game Jam

We’re excited to announce an awesome event in conjunction with our partners over at Pitchfork for Soundplay, their interactive music-inspired video game series. On September 5, the New Museum in New York City will host the Soundplay Game Jam, where attendees can experience new Soundplay games develo

Check out the new Soundplay game, "Geometry of Love" by Chromatics and Ivan Safrin.

In case you hadn’t heard, we’ve partnered with Pitchfork to present new, playable music videos by bands who’ve been inspired by videogames. The project is called Soundplay, and so far we’ve featured Jake Elliott‘s game based on M83’s “Intro”, Santa Ragione‘s game based on Matthew Dear’s “Street Song