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.
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.
Video Did you ever use a fingerboard as a teen? I did and I’m glad Australian company Penny Skateboards has captured that in a flick-flipping side-scroller called Penny Time, made by IV Motion with a thumping soundtrack from Brisbanite Hunz. It’s somewhere between Bit.Trip Runner and Canabalt, a run
NY Times best-selling writer and Stargate: Universe creative consultant John Scalzi takes a modern RPG approach to social justice. What ensues is satirical, “Eat the Poor”-esque essay on white privilege: Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest diff
People often complain that there isn’t enough to play on the Wii, but if you missed Rhythm Heaven Fever, the followup to 2009’s Nintendo DS title, it’s worth waggling your controllers again. Unlike most music games that require complicated arrangements of button combinations, Rhythm Heaven Fever is
Video Mind over matter? A team of researchers have demonstrated that humans with severe brain injuries can operate machines. Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm to
For videogames, space is essentially a given. The shipping lanes of Eve Online, the intergalactic machinations of Commander Shepard in Mass Effect — these are all rooted in the assumption that in the future, mankind’s destiny will be in the stars. In fact, we rarely reflect on what it would take to
A new 3D project has turned the Great Pyramids into digital artifacts. A new project engineered by software design firm Dassault Systèmes, in collaboration with Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, has recreated the wonder of the world. You can even use 3D glasses to view the en
Forgive us for two social games harping in a day, but news from Japan caught our eye as they attempt to regulate gambling-style “compugacha” games. Players pay a small fee to receive a random in-game item and then attempt to collect all items to unlock an even bigger item. It’s basically the Price i
Nicholas Carr pointed to a 2009 speech by futurist Bruce Sterling on the possibility of two different futures for technology. One potential futures digital consumers was “Gothic High-Tech” embodied in the life of Steve Jobs: In Gothic High-Tech, you’re Steve Jobs. You’ve built an iPhone which is a b
When asked this week about his Facebook status during his second IAMA on Reddit, comedian Louis C.K. responded: “I killed my facebook page years ago because time clicking around is just dead time. Your brain isn’t resting and it isn’t doing. I think people have to get their heads around this thing.
Video MIT grad student Charles Guan is man after my own heart. He has converted the go-kart designs from Mario Kart into a real-life mini-vehicle that can hit 26 MPH. It’s called “Chibikart,” it’s 34 inches long and 18 inches wide, and it is adorable. [via The Daily What Geek]
Video We love physical objects (so much so, that we have a print magazine of our own), but with the competing forces of the Internet and tablet devices, it’s no surprise that that book as chief means of information has all but disappeared. There are those (like Jonathan Franzen) who wish to look bac
If you’re not familiar with Able Gamers, you should be. A non-profit and affiliated gaming site for those of us who love games but are facing different challeneges via disability, AG has been a loud advocate for ensuring that all games are accessible for all of us. One of the big challenges, of cour
Adult Swim Games has upped the ante on addictive infini-runner with Robot Unicorn Attack Evolved. Gameplay is the same, but there are now robotic pandas. That is all. Play it here!
Video Andy Robertson of GeekDad will be using the videogame Flower for an upcoming religious service at the Exeter Cathedral: I was inspired to choose Flower for the Cathedral service after experiencing a public performance of it at the GameCity festival in 2009. There, the game was performed by one
Video An industrious team of arcade-loving programmers finally have created the lifelong dream of bringing Frogger into being. I was always curious how an actual frog would fare in actual traffic. (Actually I haven’t.) There’s no real frog but I will say that 5th and 17th is no place for an amphibia
The world is in mourning this week for the passing of beloved children’s author Maurice Sendak. Like most people, I read Where the Wild Things Are and also, like most people, I spent much of my childhood buried in the world of videogames. What’s fascinating to me is that as a child of the ’80s, ther
Video Earlier this year, we showed a build of Adam Parrish’s word puzzler Lexcavator and Parrish has now put a finished product on the market. It’s pay-as-you-want since all the cool kids are doing that these days and fans of SpellTower will surely get a kick out of Lexcavator dig down style. Get it
Brazil-based artist Valentino Fialdini constructs tiny rooms and then creatively snaps them to make them achieve greater volume than actually are. No word if you can actually purchase houses that look like this. He told My Modern Met: “One of my specialties is architectural photography,” he tells u
Video Eric Provan sent us a note to take a look at his new Kickstarter project for Spate. The mockups meet our benchmark for requisite moodiness in a platformer and his credits from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and the new Spider-Man reboot are certainly on fu
Video I’ve often discussed games as occupying many spaces, a nod to GA Tech prof Michael NItsche’s Video Game Spaces, and advance this idea that when we play games, we’re in several places at once. We’re in the world of the code, interpreting the screen, interacting with social context, and, of cour
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
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
