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Killscreen Poetry is an absolute explosion of video games writing. A funny, happy explosion. Not the killing type.
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Top 5 Strangest Japanese Nintendo DS Commercials
Last month, KillScreen Poetry looked at the weirdest Japanese TV commercials for the Nintendo Wii. This time, I thought I would turn my attention to the Wii's portable sibling: the Nintendo DS.As most gamers are aware, there are quite a few bizarre J...
KillScreen Vault #1: Freeway
Welcome to a new regular feature here at KillScreen Poetry... the KillScreen Vault! Each month we'll be dusting off a forgotten game from yesteryear, and making a video about it. This month, we look at Activision's Freeway for the Atari 2600. When th...
Spare change? Buy Half-Life for $3.39!
Now this is a retro gaming sale. Valve has discounted all of its Half-Life games on Steam by a whopping 66%. This means you can buy two of the greatest games ever made, Half-Life (1998) and Half-Life 2 (2004) for about the price of a McDonald's Meal....
Cold War Gaming in the Soviet Union
It's March 1983. Cold war tensions between the US and the Soviet Union are reaching boiling point again. President Ronald Regan fronts a packed public assembly in Florida and denounces the Soviet regime as an "evil empire". He says the US will develo...
Slice and dice with Muramasa's 108 swords
We here at KillScreen Poetry love ninja games. Almost as much as zombie games. So we are keeping a particularly close eye on the upcoming Japanese Wii game Muramasa: The Demon Blade. The 2D platformer is a homage to old school ninja slash 'em ups lik...
Top 5 Weirdest Japanese Wii Commercials
The Nintendo Wii's control system may have reinvented the gaming industry, but it's also encouraged some terribly weird games to be created. Particularly in Japan.Japanese TV isn't "normal" at the best of times. But these strange Wii games still nee...

