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.
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
Last night I plopped down in front of my television, popped on my Xbox, and used the video player to stream from my computer via a program called Vuze. This isn’t the first time; in fact, this is quite a common occurence as so much of my game-playing has transitioned to my iPad, 3DS, and, now, PlayS
Video We mentioned performance artist Chris Burden’s new installation Metropolis II, now showing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, once before, but we just discovered this video, directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman, that walks us through the work. Per LACMA’s description: Metropolis II
Shay Pierce was a developer at OMGPOP, creator of the immensely popular Draw Something, and was faced with a dilemma. Now that Zynga had acquired his company, should he join the mothership or stay behind? It was Tuesday night. News of the acquisition had been relayed to me only hours before. On Mond
Daniel Johnston, Texas indie muse and king of the hand-drawn album cover, has released a new iPad app called Space Ducks to coincide with the release of his new graphic novel. It is, of course, “intergalactic saga of epic proportions that will make you rethink life, death, existence, and your place
Debates about game clones have been all the rage lately, covered in these pages as well as the NYT, but one author has a rousing defense of stealing other people’s ideas. Author Austin Kleon’s new book Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told About Being Creative makes the argument that stealing