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.
The Kaiser Family Foundation released a report titled Generation M2 on the media consumption habits of those 8 to 18-year-olds. The study outlines how kids spend more than 50 hours a week and much of that time is spent on multiple devices in what they are calling “media muti-tasking.” What surprised
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Video In case you missed this over the weekend, Google took the cake for April Fools’ Day by launching Google Maps for the NES. (We’re still partial to our joke, but hey, we’re not #1 in Internet search….yet)
Italian artist Esther Stocker’s mind-bending installations play with the reality of space and frankly remind me a lot of Portal 2‘s deconstructing environments. See more of her work here. [via Pulmonaire]
Oh that’s where those were! Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia, recently stumbled upon an amazing cache of goodies via his father: The carton arrived yesterday. My jaw dropped when I saw what was inside. No, I don’t mean the stacks of Spanish Drosoft versions of POP and Karateka (though tho
Author of How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005 Richard King outlines his argument that labels like Factory Records shaped the sound and business of music for the decades after their heyday. He surmises: What differentiated Mute, Factory, Rough Trade and the
Video Ever wonder what it would be like to fall in love with the “God Particle“? Michael Falk may have the answer in his new iOS title Ms. Particle Man. The gameplay is somewhere between VVVVVV, Pac-Man, and Defender. The concept, of course, should appeal to the particle accelerator in all of us. Ge
Like my most children, I remember the day when one of my classmates bought an NES with Super Mario Bros. in tow. It’s a pop culture milestone, but Frank Cifaldi opens up a rabbit hole that I didn’t even know existed. We know the dates of many historical events, but do we know exactly when Super Mari