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Hotline Miami dev helps pirates play his game
The postmodern mass-murder lark Hotline Miami is being pirated. Normally this wouldn’t be news, but it turns out the game’s developer provided the pirates with tech support. T.J. Hafter at PC Gamer found Jonatan Söderström leaving helpful comments on torrenting sites. Not only does Söderström (posti
Kill Screen’s guide to Hurricane Sandy
Kill Screen HQ is boarded up. We’ve stocked up on beans, candles, masking tape and buoyant 16-bit cartridges, and two of every animal. It’s like Tokyo Jungle, but in Brooklyn! Lots of aspirational facial hair. At any rate, the big one is almost here. And this got us thinking about bad weather in vi
We did not see this castaway simulator coming, but it is here.
As part of the Ludum Dare competition, animator Tom Campbell went all Tom Hanks on his entry by creating Adrift. Skirting the game/non-game conversation for a moment, Adrift falls somewhere between interactive wallpaper and Tamagortchi. You are, well, you and you are stuck on a boat for the foreseea
Incredipede made us like insects, if only for a fleeting moment
While our basic insect/arthropod policy at Kill Screen is EWWWW EWWWWW KILL IT GENOCIDE, we are making an exception for the delightful new browser game Incredipede. In it, you play as a fairly uncoordinated eyeball named Quozzle with the ability to grow insect limbs, which are the levers you use to
A drone pilot reflects on how his job is like playing a videogame
With the election coming up, military drone strikes are getting more attention. President Obama has increased the role of drones in the military and Mitt Romney has given every indication he would continue the trend if he wins the election. Unmanned, the grand jury prize winner at Indiecade, deals w
Relax all cool with easy mode Sonic
When I can’t bring myself to finish a game, sometimes I watch the ending in a user-made play video. You know the ones… they usually have play commentary that no one wants to hear. But there is an art to realtime videogame commentary. This smooth jazz of Let’s Play of Sonic originally appeared on the
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