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Weekend Reading: Stuck In The Past, Covered In Pink Granite

13 Aug 2016 2 min read feature

While we at Kill Screen love to bring you our own crop of game critique and perspective, there are many articles on games, technology, and art around the web that are worth reading and sharing. So that is why this weekly reading list exists, bringing light to some of the articles that have captured

We wrote an ode for every character in Overwatch

12 Aug 2016 2 min read News

How do you tackle a game as big and aqueous as Overwatch? Every so many weeks its meta game changes; characters fall in and out of favor, you win, you lose, you get fed up of firing pellets into Reinhardt’s shield for entire rounds. These changes are, for the most part, minuscule—noticeable only to

Celeste is the insanely difficult and insanely cute platformer we deserve

11 Aug 2016 1 min read Sponsored Post

As part of one of the many petty, savage feuds in Greek mythology, King Sisyphus was forced by Zeus to roll a boulder up a hill and watch it roll right back down as punishment for his murderous, greedy ways. But also, mostly, as punishment for thinking he was cleverer than Zeus. Designers Matt Thors

Pokemon Go has no idea how to tell you what Pokemon are nearby

11 Aug 2016 2 min read Sponsored Post

“We’re currently testing a variation of the ‘Nearby Pokemon’ feature with a subset of users,” read the August 9th patch notes for Pokemon GO. “During this period you may see some variation in the nearby Pokemon UI.” This is an understatement. The quality of Pokemon GO is almost irrelevant in the fac

Get punny with It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Lady Sings

11 Aug 2016 1 min read Sponsored Post

Animator Veronica Jelinek and designer Tim Garbos’s It Ain’t Over Till the Fat Lady Sings is an adorable two-minute interactive animation that gently pokes fun at the absurdity of five English idioms. “It’s raining cats and dogs” becomes a deluge of pink-and-blue animals pouring from the sky while y