What better way to start your morning than a Scrillex-themed tribute to Peggle Nights.
Video Call 911. [via Simon]
Jamin Warren
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.
Google launches Maps for NES in April Fools’ Day coup.
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)
PAUSE: Esther Stocker’s geometric installations bend space, remind us of Portal 2.
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]
Prince of Persia’s Jordan Mechner finds a cache of his original code — in his father’s closet.
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
If videogames are in their "indie" period, where’s our Factory Records?
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