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Announcement

Announcing the Tribeca Games Festival

Grab tickets here! We at Kill Screen are thrilled to announce our partnership with Tribeca on the first ever Tribeca Games Festival. When Tribeca said they wanted to work with us to put on this incredible event, it was an opportunity we absolutely could not pass up. The Tribeca Games Festival is going to be something incredible, and we are proud of the collection of emerging independent developers and industry greats that we have assembled. This festival will feature onstage keynote interviews with trailblazers in the games industry, including a special conversation with Hideo Kojima. It will also feature retrospective…
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Introducing Versions, the first-ever VR festival focused on creativity

Though virtual reality has existed in some form since the 1960s, and in the realm of science fiction for much longer, 2016 promises to be a breakthrough year for the technology, with high-profile product launches and major releases in games and film. With that in mind we are thrilled to announce our new conference Versions, organized in partnership with NEW INC, the incubator program at The New Museum. Versions aims to shift the conversation around VR from one focused on tools and gadgets to a dynamic interdisciplinary discussion that will examine how this technology is being shaped and defined through…
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Free Beer, Great Games at Movable Play

Do you like free beer? Do you like free food? How about the exciting future of design forward mobile games? You’ll find all three at our monthly Movable Play event, continuing Tuesday, December 1st. This month we have some very exciting speakers. On the creative side of things is Çağıl Bektaş, the creator of Vektor, the fast-paced driving game that will make you equal parts anxious and excited. On the business side we’ll be featuring Jesse Divnitch, VP of Product Strategy at Tilting Point. And lastly, we’ll be featuring Edgar Castro, a graduate of Parsons The New School of Design and his…
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Next week: free arcade at the Ace Hotel

Next week, head over to the Ace Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, where we’ll be hosting Playlist, our monthly public arcade. The arcade will be open, and free, from six to eight, so come out and join us for some afterwork digital play–no costume required. This month, get inside the head of a videogame developer in The Beginner’s Guide, go on a space-date in Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, and take a walk through the spooky halls of SOMA. Play these games and more on October 27th, next Tuesday. Subscribe to our mailing list * indicates required Email Address * Zip…
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Announcing Play/Off, NYC’s first league of digital play

EDIT: Keep an eye out for Play/Off in 2016. We have decided to postpone it until then in order to do the best job possible on this event series. Games have been inherently social for most of our history, from basketball to chess. Why should videogames be any different? In our new event series, brought to you by Grind coworking spaces and arts and culture publication Kill Screen, we want to bring people together to play face-to-face in New York City’s first league of digital play. Over the course of six events, teams will face off in games plucked from…