A Thank You and an Apology
Hello all,
First of all, an apology. You have no idea who we are! You fund our project and we never write! I apologize for that. (It's just like Don Draper says -- it's all about leverage. "You want me but you can't have me" or something like that. At the very least you were curious, right?) Seriously, there are legitimate reasons that I can explain to you when we inevitably meet.
In any case, let's make this introduction formal. My name is Jamin Brophy-Warren and I am an outgoing reporter for the Wall Street Journal. (Last day on Friday!) I met Chris Dahlen many years ago as we both were writing for Pitchfork Media. In fact, Chris still writes for them along with the Onion AV Club, Edge, Paste and so on and so on.
Kill Screen was born during a conversation that Chris and I had with others at the Game Developer's Conference this year. We were asking "Why doesn't something like this exist?" We talked about games all of the time but there wasn't something that met the bar, both intellectually and aesthetically, for this genre. That's not to say there aren't lots of lovely blogs that write wonderful things about games and their obvious cultural import, but we wanted something we could hold. An artifact. An object. It had to be beautiful. The sort of thing that stays on your shelf and you pass on to your children. We wanted Kill Screen to be an heirloom.
We have been blessed to have a cadre of talented writers that volunteered their time and thoughts for the first issue. They are Leigh Alexander (news director for Gamasutra), Tom Bissell (the New Yorker, GQ), Rob Dubbin (writer for the Colbert Report), L.B. Jeffries (PopMatters), Jason Killingsworth (editor at Paste), Ryan Kuo (Crispy Gamer), and Matt Shaer (Christian Science Monitor). Photography and illustration comes to us courtesy of Christophe Beauregard, Lincoln Colding, Brock Davis, Vincent Diamante, Reinier van der Ende, Chris Sweeney and the Autumn Society.
So that brings us to the tricky little relationship that you and we have developed. We have less than 30 days left to keep Kill Screen growing. You've helped us make this project a possibility so tell your friends! We want to get this in as many hands as possible.
More updates, we promise.
In games we trust,
Jamin (and Chris)
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Tyler Weir says: Best pic ever.
Fred Benenson says: Awesome dude! Really looking forward to my first copy.