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.
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
Art student Drew Linne made a mock Guess Who? board with Nintendo characters. Too tough or too easy?
Video Steve Jobs hated buttons. I happen to like feedback on my devices. Tactus Technology may have a middle ground. I’m skeptical but a fascinating thought experiment regardless. While touchscreens provide a versatile user experience, they provide no tactile experience for consumers. Vibration hapt
Benjamin Jackson earlier this year explored the roots of social games like FarmVille in the behaviorialism of B.F. Skinner, questioning their core ethical principles: Many people defend FarmVille as a harmless distraction, arguing that the thousands of hours spent playing the game would still have b
The Week reports on the future of running. All I could think of is the drones from BioShock 2. For those who lack a human partner, researchers Floyd Mueller and Eberhard Grather, of the Exertion Games Lab at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, have developed “Joggobot,” a quad-
Free-to-play games are all the rage. Dmitri Leonov offers a tri-fold theory on what actually makes sense in the freemium model: The Evernote-like Paywall: The way the product is designed, a significant portion of the users will inevitably cross the paywall. The longer you use the product, the more v
Slate advises on the right and wrong ways to name your galactic vessel. (Icarus is a terrible one): Otherwise, if you’re taking on a mission of vital or, let’s say, hubristic scale, the names of Greek tragic figures should generally be avoided. Bellerophon, for example. Sure, he was pretty mighty, a
Wow. Remember that 16-bit episode of Community. An industrious Reddit user has turned it into an actual game. Enjoy it now before some funsucker at NBC takes it down. [via AV Club]