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.
Brazil-based artist Valentino Fialdini constructs tiny rooms and then creatively snaps them to make them achieve greater volume than actually are. No word if you can actually purchase houses that look like this. He told My Modern Met: “One of my specialties is architectural photography,” he tells u
Video Eric Provan sent us a note to take a look at his new Kickstarter project for Spate. The mockups meet our benchmark for requisite moodiness in a platformer and his credits from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and the new Spider-Man reboot are certainly on fu
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