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Inside the programming tool designed to get more girls into coding
If Instagram is buying a sweater, Vidcode is learning to knit.
A look back at the doomed virtual reality boom of the 90s
“Virtuality” and a failure to launch.
The everyday lives of videogame characters
A new type of game explores the aesthetic of the mundane.
Exhuming Grim Fandango’s Mexican folklore inspirations
Asking questions of a game about exploring the unknown.
Starr Mazer has always been real
How “cheating” on a film budget created the Internet’s most baffling game trailer.
The unwinnable war over screenshots
People have been arguing over the nature of the image for a very, very long time.
The House and the Labyrinth
Resident Evil’s remake is the series’ fullest exploration of architectural horror.
DayZ breaks my heart
The zombie apocalypse of DayZ has unintentionally recreated the real dead zone just outside my childhood bedroom window.
Metro 2033 and the poetics of urban agoraphobia
The terror outside.
I fell in love with a sex ninja at the end of the world
How Apocalypse World sets players free by taking away control.
Notes from Underground
A critical reevaluation of Dig Dug, one of classic arcade gaming’s strangest beauties.
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.
The sublime pleasure and pain of cycling and games about cycling
Winter is here. Can videogames help?
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 Crossy Road updates the timeless appeal of Frogger
The hit mobile game is about more than crossing roads.
High Scores 2014: 5-1
The most essential videogames of 2014.
Introducing Kill Screen’s Year in Ideas
A week-long series celebrating the strange, wonderful year we’ve had.
Confronting videogame torture, after the CIA’s report
What do videogames have to say about America’s attitude toward enhanced interrogation?
High Scores 2014: 15-6
High Scores 2: High Scoreser.
A look at Hyper Light Drifter, one of 2015’s most beautiful games
Why does it look so great? Short answer: Miyazaki.
High Scores: The Best of 2014
Deliver a baby, save the world, kick your friend’s asses. Our year-end list starts here.
One of the most elaborate alternate reality games ever is launching early next year
Augmented reality just got a lot more intense.
Five things I consumed in 2014
2014 was a year in which one could partake.
The Year in Blank Space
Games are discovering just how full an empty area can be.