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.
Video I’ve often discussed games as occupying many spaces, a nod to GA Tech prof Michael NItsche’s Video Game Spaces, and advance this idea that when we play games, we’re in several places at once. We’re in the world of the code, interpreting the screen, interacting with social context, and, of cour
At the office, several KS folks have been abuzz about the new Diablo. I’m more than bearish as I was never a fan of the franchise or the style of gameplay, but when prodded, I often find myself struggling to explain what that “type” of game actually is. For those who play games, nomenclature can be
Video I love how games adopt to new interfaces. Drops in prices in accelerometer technology normally found in airbag sensors enabled the Wii and the infra-red and motion-sensing tech in the Kinect allows games like Star Wars Kinect. (Maybe that’s not a good thing). Today, a group at Disney Research
KS contributor, game designer, and general provocateur Pippin Barr is at it again with a new nugget of Flash goodness called Hot Coffee. Ha. He writes us: It’s a riff on the “Hot Coffee Sex Scandal” that surrounded GTA: San Andreas when it came out, with the sex mini-game and all that. I was intere
Womp womp. Nintendo posted its first loss as a public company in 50 years as competitors, specifically Android and iOS, have chipped away at their market. Despite building a base of more than 151 million DS users, other handheld devices have bridged the gap. The most telling note comes from an analy
Video Game designer Rusty Moyher (who I’m convinced has taken a stage name as an ode to Russ Meyer) has a new title called Bloop that’s taken a page from the B.U.T.T.O.N school of gymnastic game play. Tap the dots, elbow your friends and all that. Break fingers if you must!
