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10/14/2026

🗓️ NOV 13 2026
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Hologram Opera & Killscreen present the 𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗦 𝘍𝘙𝘖𝘔 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗘𝗧 𝗕𝗟𝗜𝗣 release party!

Join us at Revenge of king to celebrate ’s vinyl release of the cult classic video game Blippo+ OST!

Featuring pop-up performances from a bevy of Blippians: Lord Wright (aka Zordé), Chloe Coover (aka Neomie Lifto), Brent Weinbach (aka Brenden Challenger) plus 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗬 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖 𝗡𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣 from Rob and Jona of all night long.

All-ages, come as you are, ladies, gentlemen, non-binary people, binary computers, Blippians, bugs, Earthlings, and everyone else!

❤️📡💿

10/14/2026

Stephen Gillmurphy makes games in Dublin under the name thecatamites. His nine-part comedy horror, Anthology of the Killer, won the IGF Nuovo Award in 2024.

He told me the scariest thing isn't the masked killer. It's being stuck inside somebody else's metaphor. You're in a political cartoon trying to walk down the street, and there are guys in T-shirts that say "The Economy" chasing you with whistles. Everyone around you is acting out a system you never agreed to, and they all assume you already know the rules.

He spent four years on it and never planned past the next chapter, because he wanted to watch it drift. He also keeps a book of Victorian wallpapers made with arsenic paint, on the principle that there is no reason not to give people something interesting to look at besides the thing that is meant to be happening.

It is October and everyone is queueing up the scary stuff. This is the case for the funny stuff.

Irish game designer Stephen Gillmurphy meanders through his approach to horror one zine at a time.

10/13/2026

From the Killscreen Horror Collection: Home Safety Hotline by Night Signal Entertainment.

It's the 1990s and you've taken a job answering phones for a home safety hotline. The callers have problems in their houses. Some of them are mold. Some of them are not.

It's 33% off through 31 October, and the link is in the Collection email when you sign up. The sign-up link is in the first comment.

10/13/2026

Tomorrow, 10am PT: Scoring Fear. Composers Ryan Holladay (Weapons) and Jason Graves (Dead Space) on scoring fear for film and games. Free. Register and I'll email you the link.

Cross-Conversations: Horror. Weapons and Resident Evil composer Ryan Holladay meets Dead Space composer Jason Graves on scoring fear for a screen versus for a player. Free and online, 13 October.

10/13/2026

Six years is a long time.

Jonathan Coryn (Coryn) spent them, mostly alone, building Player Non Player. Its central move is a caress. You walk an unforgiving island, find someone grieving, and touch them in a way that speaks to who they are.

Shown at Centre Pompidou and MUDAM, it’s a game about mortality and longing. I asked Coryn about the character he found hardest to write: the dog.

Found out why at killscreen.com/start or search “Killscreen Coryn”.

What is something touch as told you that words could not?

10/09/2026

Film composer Ryan Holladay and game composer Jason Graves on scoring horror, live on Tuesday 13 October.

What does fear sound like?

I'm hosting Scoring Fear, a live conversation between two composers who answer that for a living. Ryan Holladay co-scored Weapons and this year's Resident Evil film. Jason Graves scored Dead Space, Until Dawn and Still Wakes the Deep.

One writes for a cut that never changes. The other writes for a player who might turn around at any second. I want to know what each of them steals from the other.

It's Tuesday 13 October at 10am PT, 1pm ET. Free and online, and recorded if you can't make it live.

Register and I'll email you the link to join. The registration link is in the first comment.

What's a sound from a film or a game that you still can't shake?

10/08/2026

Film composer Ryan Holladay and game composer Jason Graves on scoring horror, live on Tuesday 13 October.

What does fear sound like?

I’m hosting Scoring Fear, a live conversation between two composers who answer that for a living. Ryan Holladay co-scored Weapons and this year’s Resident Evil film. Jason Graves scored Dead Space, Until Dawn and Still Wakes the Deep.

One writes for a cut that never changes. The other writes for a player who might turn around at any second. I want to know what each of them steals from the other.

It’s Tuesday 13 October at 10am PT, 1pm ET. Free and online, and recorded if you can’t make it live.

Register at killscreen.com/start and I’ll email you the link to join. Link in bio.

What’s a sound from a film or a game that you still can’t shake?

10/07/2026

The Killscreen Horror Collection is open.

These are independent horror games I picked because they got under my skin, not because they were the biggest names in the genre. Some were made by one person. Some will make you want to turn the lights on.

Sign up free and I'll email you the deals from the people who made them, plus 30 days of MUBI free. Most of the Steam deals end tomorrow, including Mouthwashing, Buckshot Roulette and Eclipsium, so today is the day to look. Link in bio.

In celebration of Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma, streaming 2 October on MUBI

10/07/2026

The Killscreen Horror Collection is open.

These are independent horror games I picked because they got under my skin, not because they were the biggest names in the genre. Some were made by one person. Some will make you want to turn the lights on.

Sign up free and I’ll email you the deals from the people who made them, plus 30 days of MUBI free. Link in bio.

In celebration of Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma, streaming 2 October on MUBI

10/06/2026

Temitayo Ogunbiyi designs playgrounds with a little danger built in, on purpose.

She grew up in the US with monkey bars. Now she sees swings that don't go as high, rubber matting where the mulch used to be, and play suffocated by restrictions.

Her answer is to put some risk back. "Play is not play without risk," she told me. If children never meet it, how do they learn to manage it as adults?

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