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The Blue Screen of Death in Windows is never a good thing. But Microsoft is now making the screen a bit less bright and a bit ...
For years, Kill Screen magazine has put a lens on the art of video games. On May 11, the magazine’s creators are holding the Twofivesix conference in Brooklyn, New York, with the goal of ...
At level 157, he reached the notorious "kill screen" — the point in the game where it becomes unplayable because of limitations with the game's original programming. It took him less than 39 ...
Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old kid from Oklahoma, became the first human to beat Tetris by reaching the "kill screen." Only AI had done it before.
For now, this is the "true kill screen" of Donkey Kong. There is, in theory, one way you could get past the old kill screen ...
Until, that is, Willis managed on Dec. 21 to trigger a kill screen on Level 157, which the gaming world takes as a victory over the game — something along the lines of pushing the software past ...
That said, outright cloning is still a problem, one Kill Screen asserts we can address with education and a few notes from the fashion industry. In other words, ...
Tetris is an old-school video game, released nearly 40 years ago. But a 13-year-old from Oklahoma just pulled off a new trick on the classic, being the first player to truly beat the game. Willis ...
Kill Screen is a highbrow magazine about video games. If this strikes some as a bit of a contradiction, I wouldn't be surprised, but it certainly makes sense to me. Being a young'en, I didn't ...
A casual gamer could reasonably assume that, after nearly 35 years, there aren’t many achievements left to attain in the original Nintendo version of Tetris.Willis “blue scuti” Gibson ...
The Kill Screen cover by Joshua Sherwell and Mike Stock. Perfect for both existing and new readers of the critically acclaimed series, this standalone story has already far exceeded its original ...
Until, that is, Willis managed on Dec. 21 to trigger a kill screen on Level 157, which the gaming world takes as a victory over the game — something along the lines of pushing the software past ...