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.
Founder of one-man shop Oh My! Me Studios and creator of “hand-crafted video games,” Ken Amarit sent us a note about his new iOS title Voyager. If you were looking for a reason to reach-out to your grandmother, this would be it. Amarit used a needle and wool to construct the game’s elements and then
At this year’s No Quarter exhibition at NYU, amongst the flashier digital entries, Zach Gage debuted one of the strangest card games I’d ever seen. Titled Guts of Glory, it was turn-based eat em’ up that has you channeling the carnal powers of appetite to outconsume your opponents. At the time, it w
One of the more frustrating pieces of recommending games to friends is the not-so-stunning realization that not everyone has every major game console, tablet, and so forth on the market. So when a game like Bastion strolls along, telling friends about it is not nearly enough. You want them to play i
This is the best part: This simulator calculates the heat transfer from the pan to the meat or vegetables that are being cooked, and displays the visible changes caused by heating. The fry pan interface allows for three dimensional input, and as well as moving the fry pan to aid the cooking process,
Over at the New Yorker, Reeves Wiedemann laments the loss of Nintendo Power which served his adolescence the same illicit joys as Hustler. (His analogy, not mine.) It’s by far my favorite eulogy for the advertisement rag that doubled as “journalism” and a reminder of the immense cultural sway that N
Feeling bummed about the future of games? It happens. But here’s your daily dose of inspiration. Kickstarter is headed to PAX Prime this year and put together a reel of clips from some of their favorite campaign videos (including us!). While it’s simply an announcement of their booth presence, it al
In honor (?) of the demise of Nintendo Power, Slate republished a list of their favorite fanmail. The list was originally published when Slate was using Tripod which is a novelty in its own right, but the stories, oh the stories, of people with their Nintendo devices demonstrates how powerful Ninten
The roll-out of the NikeFuel band was one of the biggest marketing pushes from the last year. Nike spared no expense for non-traditional approaches. That includes this magical digital version of Pong released in Japan.