Kill Screen
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Issue 9, the first redesigned Kill Screen issue after a successful Kickstarter campaign.
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| Categories | Video games |
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| Year founded | 2009 |
| First issue | March 2010 |
| Company | Kill Screen Media, Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | killscreen.com |
| OCLC number | 892699658 |
Kill Screen (stylized as KILL SCREEN) is a print and online magazine founded in 2009 by Jamin Warren and Chris Dahlen and owned by Kill Screen Media, Inc. It focuses on video games and culture, but also includes articles based on entertainment. The name is based on the infamous video game term of the same name.
In 2009, both Warren and Dahlen were former writers for Pitchfork when they decided to found the magazine. After a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the magazine, the first issue was released on March 2010. After partnerships with Pitchfork, StoryCode and Film Society of Lincoln Center, the magazine eventually founded an annual video game conference, two5six, in 2013. The magazine's website did a redesign on January 2014 and the print magazine itself was redesigned and overhauled after a second successful Kickstarter campaign on November 2015. In 2016, two5six's name was changed to Kill Screen Festival.
Kill Screen is a print and online magazine that specializes in literary video games journalism. The magazine originally planned to publish think pieces rather than breaking news.PSFK described the magazine's demographic as "25–34-year-old wealthy, urban, culturally elite males".
The magazine's name is based on the video game term kill screen, a level of certain arcade games that deteriorates and causes the player's unfortunate death occasionally and is mostly caused by a programming error. Some of the magazine's authors had previously written for The New Yorker, GQ, Los Angeles Times, The Onion and The Daily Show.
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