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 We love physical objects (so much so, that we have a print magazine of our own), but with the competing forces of the Internet and tablet devices, it’s no surprise that that book as chief means of information has all but disappeared. There are those (like Jonathan Franzen) who wish to look bac
If you’re not familiar with Able Gamers, you should be. A non-profit and affiliated gaming site for those of us who love games but are facing different challeneges via disability, AG has been a loud advocate for ensuring that all games are accessible for all of us. One of the big challenges, of cour
Adult Swim Games has upped the ante on addictive infini-runner with Robot Unicorn Attack Evolved. Gameplay is the same, but there are now robotic pandas. That is all. Play it here!
Video Andy Robertson of GeekDad will be using the videogame Flower for an upcoming religious service at the Exeter Cathedral: I was inspired to choose Flower for the Cathedral service after experiencing a public performance of it at the GameCity festival in 2009. There, the game was performed by one
Video An industrious team of arcade-loving programmers finally have created the lifelong dream of bringing Frogger into being. I was always curious how an actual frog would fare in actual traffic. (Actually I haven’t.) There’s no real frog but I will say that 5th and 17th is no place for an amphibia
The world is in mourning this week for the passing of beloved children’s author Maurice Sendak. Like most people, I read Where the Wild Things Are and also, like most people, I spent much of my childhood buried in the world of videogames. What’s fascinating to me is that as a child of the ’80s, ther
Video Earlier this year, we showed a build of Adam Parrish’s word puzzler Lexcavator and Parrish has now put a finished product on the market. It’s pay-as-you-want since all the cool kids are doing that these days and fans of SpellTower will surely get a kick out of Lexcavator dig down style. Get it
Ok, so it’s not real, but a man can dream, right? [Via Patrick Staudt]