Pippin Barr made a sound system that’s only as pretty as you let it be
Pippin Barr takes on Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. The results are as noisy as you want.
The videogame that 19th-century high-society British people would’ve played
Find love in Solitaire with this historial romance fiction card game.
Recapturing the low-res horror of early 3D worlds
“I feel like I’ve been given the tools and powers of some half-crazed architecture-goddess, and I can reify any weird dream or vision I have. And I intend to.”
NO FUN HOUSE is what happens when a net artist decides to break Unity
Embracing videogame failure with Cassie McQuater.
Five games we’re looking forward to in 2015
From big-budget studios to a one-woman team in Japan, next year’s games will be full of surprises.
This augmented reality installation will melt your brain and your hand
Marvel at the utter weirdness of your own limbs in the Augmented Reality Hand Series.
Names, narrative, and other incidentals in Far Cry 4
Better late than never: the Kill Screen review.
The sublime pleasure and pain of cycling and games about cycling
Winter is here. Can videogames help?
Abandoned building haunted by moon in JRPG sidequest come to life
The Lithuanian street artist Morfai has a way with repurposing old objects. He’s used digital trickery to make broken public spaces whole again, and assembled bottlecaps into enormous mosaics. His recent work may be his biggest yet, though: he “stole the moon” and trapped it in an abandoned building
The Internet Archive is now making videogame history
One DOSBOX emulation at a time.
Finally, a videogame that makes you smell better
Game your way to proper oral hygiene.
More fortune tellers need monkey onesies and glitches
Divination, after all, is the crowned ruler of the mystic.
The makers of Super Mario RPG and No More Heroes are making a tiny mobile game
They’re taking inspiration from Fez and Gone Home.
How do videogames change our dreams?
Or: why are you still fitting Tetris blocks together?
Autumn, the Oculus Rift experience tackling the post-traumatic stress of surviving rape
We talk to the creators of Autumn, a virtual reality experience about the aftermath of sexual assault.
Sci-fi film corridors re-purposed as a videogame maze
The history of sci-fi, stitched together in glorious 3D.
Help a child talk through her trauma in a therapy session with Paperknife
What exactly connects videogames and psychology?
How Crossy Road updates the timeless appeal of Frogger
The hit mobile game is about more than crossing roads.
See you in 2015, O readers
We’re going to take a nap and wake up in January.
High Scores 2014: 5-1
The most essential videogames of 2014.
Survive Christmas as a poverty-stricken dad in 33rd Street
You are going to make it through this week.
Introducing Kill Screen’s Year in Ideas
A week-long series celebrating the strange, wonderful year we’ve had.
Remaking the notorious PS1 freakout LSD: Dream Emulator
Coming probably not very soon to Unity and/or your nightmares.
Confronting videogame torture, after the CIA’s report
What do videogames have to say about America’s attitude toward enhanced interrogation?
We talk to Simogo about their Sensational December Machine
Simogo’s The Sensational December Machine asks why we fear emotive technology.