4. Kill Screen
URL: killscreendaily.comPlatform: Multi
Focus: The arts and culture surrounding video games.
Best Feature: Well-written features that insist on treating games as a respectable art form. Kill Screen has been called everything from "pretentious" to a "breath of fresh air", but there's few who would argue that Kill Screen isn't unique in what it does. Claiming that "play is a fundamental human endeavor", Kill Screen closely examines what it believes makes up the meaningful aspects of gaming. Many of Kill Screen's articles can read more like poetry than a piece of games journalism, often presenting a unique view both in its arguments and design. Occasionally the site's content veers dangerously close to pomposity, but no-one could call Kill Screen with it's wild and weird articles boring. The total antithesis to the 'buyers guide' style of writing, Kill Screen takes all your preconceptions about what video game journalism should be, rewrites them into symmetrical rhyming stanzas, then smacks you round the face with them.