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.
Essay
We talk to Rogers Redding, the man responsible for balancing the rules of NCAA football. What can one of our most beloved—but complicated and particular—sports tell us about the pursuit of meaning through limitations, success and defeat?
Essay
Is the game industry a well-oiled, profoundly risk-averse machine with a stranglehold on creative talent, or is crowdfunding about to destroy publishing as we know it? Jamin Warren takes a look at the unprecedented success of Tim Schafer’s Kickstarter project Double Fine Adventure and sees a potenti
Essay
Recent cash-in knockoffs of popular mobile games Tiny Tower and Triple Town have the gaming scene in a fury. But there’s a problem with this scenario: It’s nothing new, with plenty of precedent in other media. Game designers need to embrace their copycats. Here’s why.
Article
Kicking off our new project to document games from every country in the world, a Zambian game about the crying of goats.
Review
The long-delayed shooter Duke Nukem Forever inspires disgust, conflict, and introspection in Jamin Warren. And totally breaks our review system for good.
Interview
The funnyman behind Double Fine Productions talks to us about fishing for a good nickname, the subconscious effect a bully named Bobby had on him, and how videogames kept him from ever feeling lonely.
editor’s letter
A smuggled arcade behind a hair salon in Bridgetown, and what it says about where games are going next.
5-10-15-20
Creator of the Scott Pilgrim series, Bryan Lee O’Malley takes us through the evolution of his relationship with vidoegames, five years at a time.
Interview
The creators of the über-nostalgic indie hit Super Meat Boy reflect on their own childhoods in the latest edition of our ongoing series. Team Meat members Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes talk to us about the worst trouble they got into, their biggest childhood secrets, Calvin and Hobbes, Teenage M
Interview
As part of our ongoing series, we talk to EA Senior Creative Director Mark Turmell, who’s best known for his work on popular arcade games NBA Jam and NFL Blitz. His 31 years in game design include collecting checks as a teenager, turning down Bill Gates, and a mild case of pyromania.
Article
Carnegie Mellon professor Jesse Schell has become a major voice in the “gamification” debate that has raged in the game design community for the last year. His “Design Outside the Box” talk two years ago on the layering of games on every aspect of human existence became a big hit. We talk to Schell
Article
Patrick Smith really likes the color blue. We get the painter-turned-game designer’s perspective on games, art, color and what inspires him to create.