Hey New Yorkers, come play videogames with us
We’re taking over the Ace Hotel again, and it will be radical.
Kill Screen Staff
Specimen wants to give you the color perception skills of a veteran painter
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. Specimen (iOS) BY PepRally If your passion involves mixing paint to attain specific tones, then Specimen should come easy to you. The game involves picking out the floating blob of color (in
This week’s Playlist pick is the abstract, spectral Sylvio
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Do not stop and do not think while playing Strawberry Cubes
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Kill Screen is hiring a sales associate
Love games? Able to spot opportunities for fun out in the world? Want to work at a cool media company full of smart, excited people? Well, you’re in luck: Kill Screen is looking to hire a sales associate. We’re looking for someone young, passionate about games as culture, and looking to help grow a
Come duel your friends to Bach’s concertos this Wednesday
Johann Sebastian Joust, Petanque, and drinks in the financial district.
What you missed at the Ace Hotel this week
We had a great time playing games at the Ace Hotel last night. In case you missed it, here’s what we showed off. Monster Dress Up In a genre usually dominated by unrealistic beauty standards born of the male gaze, Monster Dress Up finally lets us embrace our inner monster. Instead of pencil-thin ske
Kill Screen is bringing our favorite stuff to Ace Hotel next week
Beat the heat at the Ace Hotel with drinks, music and games.
Artware finds a new home
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Get your summer reading on lock with the new videogame Storybundle
This is a very good deal.
Batman: Arkham Knight is the Kid A of videogames
Most games tell you what to do. Batman: Arkham Knight tells you who to be.
The hope and hopelessness of finding a new planet to call home
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Drink, do ballet and play Viking Chess in the park with us June 17th
Looking for an excuse to drink and play some fun outdoor games? Look no further than our event this Wednesday, June 17th.
Murder mysteries don’t get much stranger than this
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Torfi Frans Olafsson of Eve Online talks space and interactivity at Two5six
“We know a lot about space, we just don’t know about the little green men living on other planets.”
The Chaos Theory of adolescence
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Influence a revolution from the perspective of a housekeeper
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We’re commemorating memorial day
We’re observing the national holiday today, and will be back in full swing tomorrow.
Come by the Ace Hotel May 26 for games, drinks, and music
I mean, why wouldn’t you do this?
This game reimagines the glitch aesthetic as an emotional breakdown
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Paint your way through an invisible platformer
Sign up to receive each week’s Playlist e-mail here! Also check out our full, interactive Playlist section. INK (Windows) BY ZACKBELLGAMES Discovery defines the greatest videogame experiences. No one forgets that butterflies-in-your-stomach, swooning I’ve-never-felt-this-way-before feeling you get
Come watch Matthew Dear spin for free at Kill Screen’s Two5six Arcade
Electropop’s master illusionist to spin at Two5six Drink, play, and dance at Kill Screen’s free Two5six arcade Matthew Dear will bear his soul at Kill Screen’s Two5six arcade The Two5six festival includes an arcade for all senses
The conference schedule for Two5six is available now
Two5six, our annual conference and festival, is a three-day celebration of a life well-played. If you haven’t been to Two5six before, you still have several days to buy a ticket for our conference and other events. The final schedule is now available for our conference next Saturday, May 16th. You c
Peer into the mysteries and secrets of a 1970s suburb
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How Eve Online became a birthplace for stories
The best virtual worlds mix work with play Eve Online is a rich universe most people don’t know exists How a sci-fi world creates some of the best non-fiction CCP wants to turn the virtual lives of Eve Online players into a TV show