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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At the office, several KS folks have been abuzz about the new Diablo. I’m more than bearish as I was never a fan of the franchise or the style of gameplay, but when prodded, I often find myself struggling to explain what that “type” of game actually is. For those who play games, nomenclature can be
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Video I love how games adopt to new interfaces. Drops in prices in accelerometer technology normally found in airbag sensors enabled the Wii and the infra-red and motion-sensing tech in the Kinect allows games like Star Wars Kinect. (Maybe that’s not a good thing). Today, a group at Disney Research
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KS contributor, game designer, and general provocateur Pippin Barr is at it again with a new nugget of Flash goodness called Hot Coffee. Ha. He writes us: It’s a riff on the “Hot Coffee Sex Scandal” that surrounded GTA: San Andreas when it came out, with the sex mini-game and all that. I was intere
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Motorbiking in Trials Evolution isn’t about speed, flips, or flails. It’s an exercise in meditation on landscapes.
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Womp womp. Nintendo posted its first loss as a public company in 50 years as competitors, specifically Android and iOS, have chipped away at their market. Despite building a base of more than 151 million DS users, other handheld devices have bridged the gap. The most telling note comes from an analy
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Video Game designer Rusty Moyher (who I’m convinced has taken a stage name as an ode to Russ Meyer) has a new title called Bloop that’s taken a page from the B.U.T.T.O.N school of gymnastic game play. Tap the dots, elbow your friends and all that. Break fingers if you must!
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In PopCap’s tower defense game, lively plants defeat a zombie horde. We asked a horticulture expert how real plants grapple with nature in uncannily similar ways.
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The Atlantic muses that the Kindle has killed the idea of the book cover. While the device has enabled all types of new activities (social annotations, lightness of being, euphoria), the lack of cover is not without metaphorical weight: A digital book has no cover. There’s no paper to be bound up wi
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Desiree Brown sat down with author Brian McGreevy to talk about his new novel Hemlock Grove, a modern twist on the vampire and werewolf genre. What ensues is a rather strange conversation about the nature of fear and the modern occult, but he does offer a twist on what a monster or a villain could o
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When in doubt, look to Italo Calvino’s systematic writings about literature and the imagination. We use one of his essays to speculate on the creation of a gaming canon.
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New York-based visual artist Sandy Smith constructed this sunset from donated computers. [Via Pulmonaire]
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Way back in issue 3, we explored what games infants play when they play games in our piece “The Young and the Scoreless.” Ryan Bradley examined the world of electronic games through the lens of three-year-old Jackson who’s been working out some life issues through iPad games: Play can be serious bus