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Kill Screen is looking for summer interns.
It’s that time of the year again! Kill Screen is looking for interns this summer for editorial, art, and sales/marketing. If you’re interested, apply here.
Jamin Warren
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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Don’t Play With Your Food
How different is writing about games from writing about food or music? We talk to New York food critic Adam Platt and former Pitchfork EIC Scott Plagenhoef about dealing with the internet and what it means to be a critic.
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Rhizome’s Seven on Seven conference merges art and technology, provides model for collaboration in games.
Next weekend Rhizome will be hosting another round of its annual Seven on Seven Conference. Bringing together one artist and one technologist, the conference is excellent model of collaboration in the digital age by bringing together two sets of creators that are not always in conversation. In 2010,
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How do games fit into the "New Aesthetic"?
At SXSWi this year, I attended a panel titled “The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices” that featured Aaron Cope of Stamen Design, Ben Terrett of the UK Government Digital Service design dept., James Bridle and Russell Davies of Really Interesting Group, and Joanne McNeill of Rhizome. The id
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Play of the Day: Gunman Clive is a cartoonish Western shooter of your dreams.
Video Swedish game designer Bertil Hörberg‘s Western homage to the side-scrollers of our youth is lovely little piece of mobile goodness. In the vein of classics like Rolling Thunder, the gameplay is quick and the rhythm is all about timing. It’s available for iOS and Android.
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Here are four things the NYT "stupid games" story got right.
I’ve had a million people send me Sam Anderson’s NYT Mag cover story from this weekend on the allure of “stupid games.” Let’s be clear: I’m not particularly happy that a medium that I love appearing on the cover of one of the world’s most respected and powerful news institutions being referred to as
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Play of the Day: Maps TD is Tower Defense + Google Maps. That is all.
Not much to explain here. Duncan Barclay designed this mashup of two life obsessions as seamlessly as mac n’ cheese. For Tower Defense fanatics in need of nostalgic realism, Maps TD is right up your alley. (Not to mention it makes good use of Google’s April Fools 8-bit Maps joke.) Defend the Eiffel
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How one designer is turning the e-waste of landfills into children’s toys.
Upset by the electronic waste he saw in Phenom Penh, Dhairya Dand was inspired to launch a line of toys built from those abandoned laptops, cell phones, and other digital detritus that is generally considered useless. He calls the project “Thinker Toys“: To begin with I made four of these toys, each
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PAUSE: Highlight reel of Skate 3 bloopers is somewhere pleasantly between Charlie Chaplin and Jackass.
Video [via Andy Baio]
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The next Harmonix game involve this two-player pump organ.
Video Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow (aka Glasser) created this beast of a pump organ with the intent that no one should play music alone. We think it should feature prominent in a future Rock Band: The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a fou
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Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to book burners of Slaughterhouse-Five has much to teach game censors.
In 1973, after a teacher at Drake High School in North Dakota introduced Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, an over-zealous school board head demanded that all the copies be burned to protest the novel’s “obscene language.” Vonnegut intervened via a letter as pointed out by Jason Kottke. The entir
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"Have you ever played a racing game and wanted to play as the road…?" Now you can.
As part of this past weekend’s Molyjam, a 48-hour game creation competition based on the absurd tweets of Peter Molyneux parody account @Molydeux, Ben Pitt created a hilarious answer to the titular question. YOU ARE THE ROAD. [via Waxy]