PAUSE: Curious what Pong would look like in real life? One photographer shows you.
Patrick Runte’s photographs are what arcade cabinets dream about at night. The series is called “JumpNRun.” [via PSFK]
Jamin Warren
538 postsJamin 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.
How the sound director of Rhythm Heaven Fever tapped everything from Japanese weddings to Neal Peart for inspiration.
People often complain that there isn’t enough to play on the Wii, but if you missed Rhythm Heaven Fever, the followup to 2009’s Nintendo DS title, it’s worth waggling your controllers again. Unlike most music games that require complicated arrangements of button combinations, Rhythm Heaven Fever is
The Kinect of the future will be robots we move with our mind.
Video Mind over matter? A team of researchers have demonstrated that humans with severe brain injuries can operate machines. Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm to
If Commander Shepard ran the Apollo program, would Americans have supported it? Probably not.
For videogames, space is essentially a given. The shipping lanes of Eve Online, the intergalactic machinations of Commander Shepard in Mass Effect — these are all rooted in the assumption that in the future, mankind’s destiny will be in the stars. In fact, we rarely reflect on what it would take to
The 3D tour of the Great Pyramids you didn’t know existed is finally here.
A new 3D project has turned the Great Pyramids into digital artifacts. A new project engineered by software design firm Dassault Systèmes, in collaboration with Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, has recreated the wonder of the world. You can even use 3D glasses to view the en
Japan’s regulation of gambling-style social games gives a glimpse of the future for Zynga, others.
Forgive us for two social games harping in a day, but news from Japan caught our eye as they attempt to regulate gambling-style “compugacha” games. Players pay a small fee to receive a random in-game item and then attempt to collect all items to unlock an even bigger item. It’s basically the Price i
Why FarmVille players are the future of the 99%.
Nicholas Carr pointed to a 2009 speech by futurist Bruce Sterling on the possibility of two different futures for technology. One potential futures digital consumers was “Gothic High-Tech” embodied in the life of Steve Jobs: In Gothic High-Tech, you’re Steve Jobs. You’ve built an iPhone which is a b
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