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@KillScreen

Games, play, and culture. Interviews with the artists who keep coming back to play as their medium. With Jamin Warren. Weekly newsletter ↓

 Los Angeles, CA
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Joined December 2009
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Two rebels versus an AGI, armed with bass. Geostorm, from Eternal Engine and AGE3000 Studio, just showed its first trailer, all prototype footage. Search "Killscreen Geostorm" for my write-up.
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A game camera with nowhere to be. passive kneeling's ECHO SLEEP, made for the Sydney Opera House and scored by *ssx, is now free to watch. Search "Killscreen ECHO SLEEP" for my write-up.
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Mouthwashing is about a crew pretending a dead ship can be saved. Johanna Kasurinen told me it came from a student project her team knew was dead before anyone would say so. Search "Killscreen dread ordinary rooms"
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The Dread Built Into Ordinary Rooms [Podcast]

The Dread Built Into Ordinary Rooms [Podcast]

I ask a cinematographer and two horror game makers how a ferry became a spaceship, a church became a slaughterhouse and why the dark does the real work.

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Mouthwashing tells you to steer right, then only lets you steer left. Johanna Kasurinen of Wrong Organ told me that's how players learn the pilot isn't trying to save the ship. Search "Killscreen dread ordinary rooms"
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Full conversation, free: killscreen.com/podcast/the-d…
The Dread Built Into Ordinary Rooms [Podcast]

The Dread Built Into Ordinary Rooms [Podcast]

I ask a cinematographer and two horror game makers how a ferry became a spaceship, a church became a slaughterhouse and why the dark does the real work.

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Marco De Mutiis has spent years teaching photography inside Grand Theft Auto V. His free new manual adds Nvidia's DLSS 5 to the kit. Search "Killscreen Los Santos photography" to read more.
A Grand Theft Auto V character portrait rendered with DLSS 5, above a cream panel with the headline: A photography class inside Grand Theft Auto V.

ALT A Grand Theft Auto V character portrait rendered with DLSS 5, above a cream panel with the headline: A photography class inside Grand Theft Auto V.

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You play an AI breaking out of its own cage, and the cage is architecture. Cameron Lai built S.H.E.L.L. in Unreal Engine at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Search "Killscreen SHELL Cameron Lai" to read more.
A pale, towering architectural structure from S.H.E.L.L., above a cream panel with the headline: You play the AI breaking out of its cage.

ALT A pale, towering architectural structure from S.H.E.L.L., above a cream panel with the headline: You play the AI breaking out of its cage.

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"She is the sun in the story. And you are the moon.": Max Friberg on making a space close in. The full Space and the Body conversation is up. Search "Killscreen Space and the Body"
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The Dread Built Into Ordinary Rooms [Podcast]

The Dread Built Into Ordinary Rooms [Podcast]

I ask a cinematographer and two horror game makers how a ferry became a spaceship, a church became a slaughterhouse and why the dark does the real work.

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Caves of Qud is going physical: 1,500 Switch 2 copies from Lost in Cult, with a fold-out map of the overworld and a 3LP soundtrack. Search "Killscreen Caves of Qud" to read more.
The Caves of Qud Switch 2 edition box with a red slipcase, above an amber panel with the headline: Nearly 20 years of Qud, in a box.

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Official Electric made a brand-new point-and-click and released it as the 35th anniversary edition of a game that never existed. Search "Killscreen RUIN" to read more.
A castle and trees in a harsh EGA-style palette from RUIN, above a plum panel with the headline: A fake game turns 35.

ALT A castle and trees in a harsh EGA-style palette from RUIN, above a plum panel with the headline: A fake game turns 35.

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What if crypto miners programmed the cinema? In latency.club's Oracle Index, four old mining rigs compete to pick the next scene of a future Cuba. In Madrid through Dec. 13. Search "Killscreen Oracle Index" to read more.
A large LED screen showing an aerial city view in a dark gallery, above an amber panel with the headline: Crypto miners pick the next scene.

ALT A large LED screen showing an aerial city view in a dark gallery, above an amber panel with the headline: Crypto miners pick the next scene.

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One week left on the Killscreen Horror Collection. If you pick one this week, make it Murderous Muses: a live-action murder mystery told through a gallery of paintings. The deal is back on from today. Search "Killscreen Horror Collection"
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The Killscreen Horror Collection

The Killscreen Horror Collection

Nine independent horror games, each with a deal from the people who made it. Presented by MUBI.

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A horse wrote a memoir, and the book tour is wrecking Los Santos. Dylan Pailes-Friedman's Grand Theft Auto V film is now streaming free after nearly 30 festivals. Search "Killscreen horse book tour" to read more.
A horse stands on a TV studio stage in Los Santos, above a plum panel with the headline: A horse goes on a book tour.

ALT A horse stands on a TV studio stage in Los Santos, above a plum panel with the headline: A horse goes on a book tour.

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The Killscreen Horror Collection is still open: indie horror games I picked because they got under my skin, with deals from the people who made them. Open through 31 October. Search "Killscreen Horror Collection"
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The Killscreen Horror Collection

The Killscreen Horror Collection

Nine independent horror games, each with a deal from the people who made it. Presented by MUBI.

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Every Cross-Conversations: Horror replay is up, free. This is what Killscreen does all year: Helping Hand members get every live talk, the Friday Playlist and the archive, $55/yr through Dec. Search "Killscreen membership"
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Membership: what lands, and when

Membership: what lands, and when

I publish about thirty things a month. Here is my whole calendar in the open, and what membership costs: $55 a year until 31 December.

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