Jamin Warren founded Killscreen. He produced the first VR arts festival with the New Museum, programmed the first Tribeca Games Festival, the first arcade at the Museum of Modern Art, won a Telly, and hosted Game/Show for PBS.
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It’s fall. That means you’ve nestled up on your sofa, arranged the magazines on your coffee table in a visually-acceptable arrangement, and will now spend the next dozen consecutive weekends glued to your television. You will be watching sports, playing video games, or hopefully doing things that in
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Ian Dallas’ years-in-the-making debut is not without erudition, even pretention. Thank god.
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German electronic producer Boyz Noise’s new video transmogrifies your everyday keyboard into a living breathing, um, person. The spot was co-directed by Patrick Jean, who you might remember, directed the phenomenal short Pixels that had old-school videogame characters invading New York City. – – –
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If you loved Wing Commander as a kid, you’re in for a treat. The franchise’s creator Chris Roberts teased his new project Space Citizen, a space sim that will apparently reinvigorate the genre and restore its place alongside democracy as mankind’s greatest achievement. He is, of course, crowd-fundi
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A bit of late note, but at Maker Faire earlier this month, I caught a glimpse of one of the more ridiculous contraptions at the fest (and this is a place that had an alley dedicated to steampunk.) The winner of the 72-hour hackathon Red Bull Creation, Thumby Wars is the brainchild of the Maker Twins
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The finefolks at Kornhaber Brown asked me to come into the studio to talk about indie games for their PBS Offbook series. What they created is one the finest primers on the potential of indie games staring Zach Gage, Leigh Alexander, Eddie Boxerman & Andy Nealen, and Darren Korb. Fun stuff!
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This is like Babe Ruth getting traded to the Yankees. [Tom says it’s like Michael Jordan leaving the Bulls and an argument ensued.]
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Titled “The Most Retro Video Game System Ever,” comedian Adam Conover walks unsuspecting friends through the gas-powered machinations of the Skaris One-Bit. It eerily reminds us of every awful lo-fi project that we find. Indie or just awful? You make the call.
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It’s easy to get lost in the sea of indie games these days. At this year’s Independent Games Festival, I found myself treading water when I came across Brighton-based dev Reece Millidge who was nominated for Excellence in Visual Art. It’s a smaller category, but one of my favorites. I’m fan of aesth
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From an interview in the Atlantic this week: The Atlantic: It sounds like you’re saying that literary “talent” doesn’t inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You’d think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand
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Terry Cavanagh’s first iOS game is utterly dizzying. His past titles VVVVVV and At a Distance play with distance and difficulty with easier measures, so it’s no surprise that Cavanagh’s turned up the crazy with Super Hexagon.
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We’re not sure what came first — the name Jersey Shouroboros – or the concept of a giant snake eating the cast of the recently-cancelled Jersey Shore and then eating its own tail. Either way, Robert Yang’s crowd favorite from this year’s Global Game Jam is the stuff of nightmares. Humor is difficult