We have a soft spot for arcades, understandably. We showed an excerpt of Kurt Vincent’s forthcoming documentary Arcade at our film festival last month and so out of the gates comes another look at a beloved arcade. Since its opening nearly sixty years ago in lower Manhattan, Chinatown Fair was a pla
Let’s unlock some more mainstream videogame news! -Steam is implementing Steam Trading, allowing players to trade giftable games and in-game items. –Battlefield 3 will not be coming to Steam. –Everything you ever wanted to know about Dishonored before playing it. –Take a look at Modern Warfare 3’
Everyone loves Portal’s iconic Companion Cube, but few of us actually know why. In fact, it’s this illogical, fierce love for an inanimate object that does very little for us that made the “character” so interesting. Still, wouldn’t it be nice if it was useful? That seems to have been the thinking b
Welcome Back! Enjoy some more mainstream videogame news! –Check out the newest Borderlands 2 details. –Driver: San Francisco will have no demo. -The new Dead island co-op trailer is all about teamwork. -Team Bondi has sold all its assets and IP to production studio Kennedy Miller Mitchell. -Watch
For many of us, there was a time when that gruff, confident voice intrigued us, when the glimpse of a giant pixelated boss monster caused us to to consider the wonders of the videogame medium, and when the catch phrase, “Hail to the king, baby!” inspired us to new levels of solitary confidence. This
Over a third of Somalia’s population—that is, roughly 3.7 million people—are at risk of starvation because of consistently poor harvests due to lack of rain. Enter First Person Saviors, the combined effort of Don’t Revive Me Bro, Quantic Media, and Battlefieldo, a charity effort aimed at Somalian h
Reading the news used to be about personal edification, or learning about what’s going on in your community. No more. Now it’s a contest. Google is introducing a new feature called Google News Badges, a program that will track what kinds of news items users read online. “The more you read, the highe
Steven Applebaum and Ryan Hoss, founding members of site Super Mario Bros. The Movie Archive snagged an interview with half of the infamous film’s final screenwriting team, Parker Bennett. The lengthy interview covers the span of the film’s creative development, the trials of being over-budget and o