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.
From an interview in the Atlantic this week: The Atlantic: It sounds like you’re saying that literary “talent” doesn’t inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You’d think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand
Terry Cavanagh’s first iOS game is utterly dizzying. His past titles VVVVVV and At a Distance play with distance and difficulty with easier measures, so it’s no surprise that Cavanagh’s turned up the crazy with Super Hexagon.
We’re not sure what came first — the name Jersey Shouroboros – or the concept of a giant snake eating the cast of the recently-cancelled Jersey Shore and then eating its own tail. Either way, Robert Yang’s crowd favorite from this year’s Global Game Jam is the stuff of nightmares. Humor is difficult
Artist Joseph DeLappe (who we covered in our No Fun issue) has an odd and XL take on the modern shooter. If you remember, EA found themselves in hot water two years ago when they initially intended to allow players to control Taliban soldiers in multi-player. They (obviously) changed their mind. DeL
Austin’s Fantastic Fest adds an annual game jam to their programming. This year’s theme will be Pendelton Ward’s Adventure Time.
Wired on how Sony almost made a 2D console.
Flavorwire compiled a list of “ruin porn” images of abandoned video stores. Remember when you could rent a Super Nintendo? Yeah, I don’t miss that at all. Blockbuster Video – New Orleans, Louisiana Credit: Alex Gaidouk – – – Blockbuster Video – Adelaide, Australia Credit: Ryan Smith
I’ve spent a lot of time in outer space. Not me personally, of course, but, me, the other me. The controller-toting me that’s explored the vast distances of the cosmos. For the history of mankind, we’ve dreamed of flight and looked at the moon with wonder. Then there was the space program and now p