Aerothorn on 13/6/2011 at 00:47
Realized that there hadn't been a topic yet about Kill Screen Magazine, a frankly awesome new literary gaming magazine. I've read three (print) issues so far and they've been uniformly excellent. Info can be found (
http://killscreendaily.com/pages/who-we-are) here, but the short story is that they are attempting to combat the decline of print games journalism by...launching a new print games magazine, but one focused on feature stories and interviews rather than timely material like game reviews, previews, etc: the idea being that they'll be worth reading in ten years time.
So: has anyone else checked this out? Do you think it's a worthwhile endeavor?
june gloom on 13/6/2011 at 00:56
This is exactly the sort of thing I want to see more of in games journalism. The problem is that I can't see them getting anyone to care in a post-literary society.
gunsmoke on 13/6/2011 at 02:21
It is a noble endeavor, and one I whole-heartedly support, but I just don't see it becoming anything other than a niche flash in the pan magazine that is remembered as a bold attempt at shaking up the industry that suffered from not enough support.
This is the type of thing that needs to exist and unfortunately there just aren't enough of us willing to spend our money on it every month to support it. I hope the advertisers buy in and stay in and that they stick around. We could use like 3 more of these publications actually. Imagine the possibilities!
Hell most people read that rag that fucking GAMESTOP self-publishes! Like THAT is objective? Give me a break...
Volitions Advocate on 13/6/2011 at 05:28
Well apparently their first issue is sold out. They'd reach a larger crowd if they ran a few more copies. 2000 doesn't speak well to a large group of potential readers. I'd buy a subscription. Just looking at those article titles I'd be reading a ton of them.
henke on 13/6/2011 at 05:56
I've been reading the web edition a lot lately. I like most of it, even though I can't agree with all of it. Like singling out one of the little flaws LA Noire had and stretching complaining about that to an entire review, and giving it a 5/10. Seems more like going against the grain just to make a name for themselves(just like Pitchfork did in it's early days) rather than honest reviewing.
On the other hand they do have great write-ups of the best new iPad games.
Koki on 13/6/2011 at 09:02
Oh goodie, another pseudo-intellectual thing with the writing staff packed full of humanists who happen to have played fucking Zelda in their youth so now that they managed to produce offspring this autofuckingmatically makes them experts on videogames.
Can't we just outright ban humanists from writing about videogames alltogether? All they can ever talk about is worthless bullshit like NARRATIVE METHODS and review the flood of idiotic indie "art" games in which the author gives you instruction to do X but then you actually need to do the opposite of X to progress HOLY SHIT DO YOU SEE HOW LIKE, DEEP AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING THAT IS
Humanists don't fucking understand videogames and they never will, because games are logical systems and humanists don't understand logic. Otherwise they wouldn't be fucking humanists. So all they can latch on like fucking leeches is the sparse elements of storytelling in videogames, blowing them the fuck out of proportion. What we need is articles written by people with analytical minds, the engineers of videogames. Hell, scratch the articles: give me fucking papers, ten page long analysis of mechanics of videogames, that's what they're all fucking about, they're games for fuck's sake. I want that with fucking charts, numbers, projections and I want tables to take more place than fucking text.
Jesus tapdancing baby Christ, would you let a humanist write an article about secondary heat cycle in a lignite power plant?
YES, IT IS THE SAME FUCKING THING.
june gloom on 13/6/2011 at 09:21
yeah, art is for fags anyway guys :mad: :mad: :mad:
PigLick on 13/6/2011 at 09:55
wtf is a humanist?
Koki on 13/6/2011 at 11:17
Here: scholars working in the humanities - ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. Also humanities-inclined people I guess
Yakoob on 13/6/2011 at 16:55
oh my god I am agreeing with kokis angry bitch rant this day is going worse than I expected :/
