Membership
One email a week is what you see. Here's what I actually make.
I publish about thirty things a month. Most people know about one of them. So here is my whole calendar in the open, and you can decide for yourself whether it is worth $55 a year.
My month
My short dispatches on the best and strangest work in experimental, independent and artist-driven games. About thirteen a month.
My flagship email. Features, news, notes, and everything else I think is worth knowing.
Our rundown of the week with a special guest, on games as an art form. Free, in whatever app you already use.
One short game I have played that week, visually distinct and uniquely compelling, and the context around it. Four a month. This is the one you are paying for.
The members' podcast
My behind-the-scenes interviews, the long conversations with artists and designers that the pieces on this site get built from. You hear them whole.
Cross-Conversations and the monthly talk
I put two artists who have never met in one room, with no press cycle attached. Live, and yours to ask questions in.
Gaming Club
We all play the same thing, then meet to argue about it.
Everything I have published since 2011, more than 10,000 pieces, plus all twelve print issues of Kill Screen coming back online front to back, in PDF and epub.
Twenty-one of those are free, which is more than most sites give away. Members get the other ten: the four Fridays, the interviews behind the work, the room, and everything I have ever published.
Membership pays for the hours. Playing something obscure enough that nobody else will cover it, booking the interview, transcribing it, checking it, and writing the thing three times.
These games mostly do not have marketing departments. If nobody writes about them the work disappears. That is what a membership is holding open.
"The McSweeney's of interactive media."
The New Yorker
I have been doing this since 2009. I curated game objects for MoMA with Paola Antonelli, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival and the Arcade at MoMA, and hosted Game/Show for PBS Digital Studios. More about me and Killscreen.
Advertising stopped paying for criticism a long time ago and it is not coming back. Everything above exists because members pay for it directly. That is the whole business model.
What I ask
Librarian
If you only want the archive
$12
a year · or $2 a month
- Everything I have published since 2011, 10,000+ pieces
- No two-article limit, ever
- My free newsletters, as before
Helping Hand
What most members pick
$55
a year · or $5 a month
- The Playlist every Friday, four a month, members only
- My members' podcast, the interviews behind the pieces
- Every back issue of the magazine, PDF and epub
- Everything I have published since 2011, 10,000+ pieces
- My live talks and Gaming Club
Before 31 December
$55 is this year's rate. On 31 December I am raising it to $96. Whatever you pay when you join is what you keep paying, for as long as you stay a member. Join now and $55 is still your price in 2028.
Not ready to pay? My Tuesday email is free, and always will be.
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