I started hearing rumbles about Kill Screen magazine back in September. It’s a videogame mag aimed at the prose-and-meta loving pretentious folk like myself. At that time the project was just starting its fund drive, and heralded with a Wired article it looks like things are stirring again.

The magazine is being run by people who you’ve likely never heard of but who write long articles that although I don’t read, I appreciate existence of. Before I sound like too much of an arse; the reason I don’t read them is because most of the praised articles are published in places like Esquire and the New Yorker. That’s great at reaching the “fnaar fnaar” crowd*, but I prefer my articles a bit more grounded. I also can’t afford printed goods.

Just to hammer home the point that the magazine won’t be generic and terrible, the Wired article says that “the content won’t be the same game old previews and reviews. Killscreen’s prose aims to answer larger questions like ‘What does it mean to play games?’”. Fnaar.

Keep an eye on their blog, and this one, for future developments.

Via: Joystiq

*It may be just me who associates “fnaar” with posh people laughing.