Jamin Warren

The directions for Steel Battalion for Kinect are confusing.

Five secret ways that games are changing the world.

This post is part of a content series presented in partnership with smartwater. smartwater, simplicity is delicious.  Jane McGonigal’s 2011 best-selling book Reality is Broken inspired a young generation of game-players to think more broadly about the impact that their controller-wielding lives had

A horse, a virgin, and a disabled unicorn walk into a bar…

Our favorite abuse-by-design gamemaker Bennett Foddy has released a new game: CLOP. Here’s the synopsis. You are magical unicorn and you must retrieve a virgin from afar. The only problem — your legs don’t quite work the way they should. Also, do unicorns make horse noises? We’re not sure.

Want to play as the Portal 2 robots on the streets of Grand Theft Auto IV? Yeah, you do.

YouTube modder Taltigolt has done the world a service by unleashing the comic stylings of P-body and Atlas on the world of Liberty City. This is the Grey Album of GTA mods.

Recurse merges Twister, Keep Away, and the front camera on your iPad

Matt Parker, former Eyebeam fellow and NYC game designer extraordinaire, has just released Recurse, one of the first game’s I’ve ever seen to use the front camera on the iPad. The object is simple — keep your body with the green blocks and avoid the red ones. Simple to play and lightly calesthenic,

LEPOS is at it again with another street art videogame clip.

KS fave Diego Bergia has a new project called The Primary Invasion and took a run at recreating the Street Fighter 2 car destruction bonus level. Bergia’s a big fan of games and put together an amazing LEPOS exhibition with a fake Neo Geo arcade cabinet.

We’re hiring a new Managing Editor.

For the past two years, Ryan Kuo has been our wonderful managing editor. Before that, he helped us put issue 1 to bed way back when. Now, he’s headed to MIT to pursue a Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology. We wish him well and he’ll be posting a farewell note later. But in the interim,

On modern travel as consumption and its digital opposite.

Amherst professor Ilan Stavans laments the state of modern tourism, fearing that we’re missing the point. Modern tourism does not promise transformation but rather the possibility of leaving home and coming back without any significant change or challenge. Tourists may enjoy the visit only because i