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.
I connected with A MAZE festival organizer Thorsten S. Wiedemann about a year ago in Berlin when he told me about his forthcoming plans to bring an indie game festival to South Africa’s largest city. It’s finally happening.: From August 28th to September 2nd 2012 the A MAZE. Interact Festival will b
Chelsea’s Eyebeam gallery has been home to some of our favorite digital projects and some of our favorite game designers. Matt Parker, who organized our SF party earlier this year was a fellow as was Kaho Abe, who we featured in Issue 2. Now they’re looking for help to build out their space: The rec
The fifth iteration of the Humble Indie Bundle has added Super Meat Boy and Braid to its already stacked roster of Limbo, Psychonauts, and Bastion. Got a friend who needs an intro to games? Now’s a good time to be a pal.
That’s Gateway computer founder Ted Waitt who recently launched a centrist Super-PAC. [via Mother Jones]
Dan Wilkerson may not consider himself a performance artist, but his role-playing on StarCraft II has a distinctly disruptive feel. Rather than engage in martial combat, Wilkerson adopts a role, ad libs the dialogue, and screen caps the result. This is basically Improv Everywhere for Terrans. Below
Malcolm Gladwell called it. Kids might play Madden someday with the same incredulity as Pitfighter and ask “Did we really used to do that?” HuffPo reports on the lawsuit’s accusation that the NFL knew the risks, but did nothing: The NFL, like the sport of boxing, was aware of the health risks associ
Dana Goldstein ties high-paying jobs in tech to young girls playing more games. The effects of this gender gap reach far beyond whether women are building video games or coding Web apps alongside men (and making technology female-friendly—remember the Siri/abortion flap? Or the more recent dust-up o
At Brainy Gamer, Michael Abbott turns to film to predict what the spate of samey shooters means for modern games. He looks to the demise of Westerns despite their widespread popularity in the 50s: Westerns began to disappear in the late 1960s for reasons relevant to modern game developers: 1) Genre