Introducing Kill Screen’s Year in Ideas
A week-long series celebrating the strange, wonderful year we’ve had.
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A look at Hyper Light Drifter, one of 2015’s most beautiful games
Why does it look so great? Short answer: Miyazaki.
Five things I consumed in 2014
2014 was a year in which one could partake.
The Year in Anti-Games
Mountain, Goat Simulator, potato salad, and the new nobrow.
The Year in Architecture
Learning to play the architecture of Abstract Ritual, NaissanceE and Frank Gehry.
Watching sports from a more videogame-like perspective could reinvent them
In praise of the first-person view.
How four art kids from Melbourne created a bizarre new sport
Push Me Pull You came by its weirdness honestly.
Is it time for us to disregard the Turing Test?
The definitive test for artificial intelligence may be a little too, well, artificial.
It’s finally happened: Ubisoft broke Assassin’s Creed
Rogue abandons the Creed in more ways than one.
Here’s what it’s like to play Steel Battalion in a tricked-out refrigerator box
A notorious game is reawoken.
There is a best way to play Grand Theft Auto 5
An emotional walkthrough.
What is Master Hand and why does it hate us?
Conspiracy theorists, get out your pencils.
Finding light in the postapocalyptic New York of The Division
Ubisoft’s upcoming shooter dazzles, but to what end?
Street Art and the 8-Bit Cool
The 8-bit aesthetic is not a fast-track to relevance.
10 Things Only Millennials Will Understand About Pokemon
We are being baited, somehow.
This videogame shows the beauty of disregarding photorealism
The only thing better than realism is surrealism.
The timely optimism of In Real Life
How Cory Doctorow’s graphic novel ended up being more relevant than it intended.
On Nintendo’s new sleep monitor
Or: Does Mario dream of electric cheep-cheeps?
Silent Hill 2’s endings aren’t what you want, but what you deserve
Or: Why I’ve never seen “In Water.”
Vib-Ribbon is a love letter to obsolete technology
The progenitor of the music game, crystallized.
Sexting with robots with Kara Stone
The Medication Meditation creator makes the personal interactive.
Alex Harvey’s genre-bending, game-destroying take on Burroughs
Sharing headspace with a maniac.
Alien: Isolation might do the impossible: make Alien scary again
You have my sympathies.
How videogame currencies could effect real-world economies
Was Bitcoin just the beginning?
Virtual reality lets horror fans scare themselves in all new ways
Exploring new textures of terror.