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.
One of the arguments for the existence of games is that they often show you who people really even if language can’t. In a move similar to the Christmas Truce soccer games of World War I, four Western journalists decided to play a game of paintball with members of the Lebanese Muslim military and po
In an interview with NPR last week, Jason Segel outlined the process for turing The Muppets into a reality. Along with director Nicholas Stoller, Segel had earned a reputation on screen as an student in the Judd Apatow school of film-making: a healthy respect for the power of raunchiness. But when t
OMGPOP, the NYC-based maker of popular iOS title Draw Something who was recently acquired by Zynga, has their sights set on Shaolin. Their new game Streets for Facebook recruits the fury of the Wu-Tang Clan for what looks to be a FarmVille-esque experience. CEO Dan Porter told Business Insider, “Thi
Video While many survival horror games rely on mood and frightening visuals to terrify players, perhaps gamemakers should be looking at the work of filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau instead. Their shark thriller Open Water was an extensive exercise in patience in the Hitchcockian manner and thei
Video While the Portal gun is still at least three Apple press conferences away, two MIT physicists are bringing us the next best thing: seeing around corners with lasers. Ramesh Raskar and Andreas Velten are the researchers with the breakthrough as LiveScience explains: They fired a laser through t
Video I will certainly be watching the beginning of season 5 of AMC’s period piece Mad Men on Sunday. But in the interim, a Choose Your Own Adventure game from the Fine Brothers should tide you over. And much like the original CYOA games, apocalypse looms around ever corner. My fate involved incitin
Simon Flesser of Simogo, the design, music, and creative end of the duo behind a KS favorite Beat Sneak Bandit, shared some of the early sketches of the game. BSB relies exclusively on moving the Bandit on 4/4 rhythms throughout the level and the dribblings give some inspiration behind its Saul Bass
Those hours spent along building games or playing them in your basement? They may not be so bad. Videogames have always received a bad wrap for being antisocial, but in a new essay echoing Jonathan Rauch’s famous 2003 defense of introverts from the Atlantic, Vanessa Quirk argues that being and buil