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.
Feeling bummed about the future of games? It happens. But here’s your daily dose of inspiration. Kickstarter is headed to PAX Prime this year and put together a reel of clips from some of their favorite campaign videos (including us!). While it’s simply an announcement of their booth presence, it al
In honor (?) of the demise of Nintendo Power, Slate republished a list of their favorite fanmail. The list was originally published when Slate was using Tripod which is a novelty in its own right, but the stories, oh the stories, of people with their Nintendo devices demonstrates how powerful Ninten
The roll-out of the NikeFuel band was one of the biggest marketing pushes from the last year. Nike spared no expense for non-traditional approaches. That includes this magical digital version of Pong released in Japan.
This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious. Have you ever wondered how people play on the other side of the world from you? Are the attachments that drew you to games that same ones that might draw another person to theirs? Is
It’s here! The last game from our Soundplay project with Pitchfork and Intel comes to life this week. Built by Aussie developer Pachinko Pictures, it’s a simple tale of beetle that dreams to be a frog that dreams to be a chicken that dreams to be… You get the idea. Play it here! More on the team: Pa
Everything old is new again. This Christmas season, you’ll be able to get your hands on a new/old/newold Neo Geo console that features a station, a handheld (with 20 games) and a joystick. That means you’ll be able to play Metal Slug and King of Fighters and not feeling of the attendant guilt for do
The Tribeca Film Institute asked me to moderate a panel at the Tribeca Film Festival on games as a form of interactive story-telling. It’s not surprising that the things that game designers know, the public does not, and my fellow panelists, Margaret Robertson, Development Director at Hide & Seek,
Someone took to Quora to ask how Zynga employees were dealing with the social giant’s poor stock performance. An anonymous employee penned a heartfelt response: People willing to play the politics game were given ‘rockstar’ status, quarterly bonuses and promotions. Project direction and goals shifte