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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Haniya Rae at Guernica looks at the brushwork of an open-source artist named Kynd.Info. I couldn’t help but see Draw Something: Originally, Kynd wanted to mimic Adobe Photoshop brushes so that texture and shading could be emulated. Eventually, he wanted to make “good paintings” with these tools. He
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On Friday, one of our writers, Michael Thomsen, posted a defense of the new trailer for Hitman: Absolution and a riposte to some of the ensuing dialogue around it. As a community, you responded with disappointment and disgust. While I want Kill Screen to be a place of provocation and debate, this wa
Parker Brothers
As the 31-year-old president of Parker Brothers, Rich Stearns was sitting on top of the world with the hit Frogger. Just three years later, he was selling china. What happened?
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Kill Screen’s editor marks a year of upheaval at the magazine, and a medium that has never once stopped changing shape.
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VIdeo Bennett Foddy, the creator of hyper-difficult “sports” games QWOP and GIRP, also has a second life. He’s a philosopher at Oxford. (Perhaps it’s the other way around and philosophy is hobby?). Anyway, the Atlantic has a lengthy interview with Foddy about the ethics of radical aging treatments t
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A Tumblr user named Bora has started the Herculean task of drawing nearly everything in the iOS hit Draw Something. He’s basically the mobile phone version of Jason Polan, the guy trying to draw every single person in NYC. Bora’s portfolio is quite impressive as well and boasts quite the wit: “When
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As E3 approaches next month, we prepare for the slew of sequels sure to be making waves. BioShock Infinite. Borderlands 2. Halo 4. The list goes on. Games have often been critiqued for essentially creating the same material over and over again. Arguably, there’s something slightly different between
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In the early 80s, Parker Brothers published a series of books on their arcade properties including our favorite foul-mouthed androgyne Q*Bert. It was one of many spin-offs from that time period that included frisbees, sleeping bags, and so on. [via OTL Gaming]
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Our friends over at Pitchfork have directed us to handiework of YouTube user QuintonSung who has lovingly interpreted Kid A and OK Computer into the closing credits for an NES Final Fantasy title. Video Track listing: 0:00 – Airbag 4:36 – Paranoid Android 10:49 – Subterranean Homesick Alien 15:10 –
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How much would you spend to save the thing you love? For one SNES fan, that would be almost a decade and more than $10,000. A programmer by the name of byuu has dedicated his/her life to recreating the Super Nintendo, but unlike other emulation projects that allow you to play games of old, Byuu a te
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Video Last week, I attended a early screening of Indie Game: The Movie (which I have the privilege to be in!). The film is playing all week at the IFC Center and around the country and is a testament to the awakening of independent game development. HBO picked up the film to convert into a dramatic
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If we told you one of the producers for The Dictator and a writer from The Carson Daly Show created a videogame show, would you watch it? If you would, then Dave and Steve’s Video Game Explosion would have been perfect for you. Too bad it was cancelled.