Electropop’s master illusionist to spin at Two5six
Drink, play, and dance at Kill Screen’s free Two5six arcade
Matthew Dear will bear his soul at Kill Screen’s Two5six arcade
The Two5six festival includes an arcade for all senses
Arcades are moving out of America’s deteriorating shopping malls and into its libraries.
The troubles and joys of getting people outdoors.
The public transit system in Aberdeen, Scotland has placed onboard entertainment on the backs of the bus seats.
Mayoral candidate Nathalie Kosciusk-Morizet has proposed to turn the city’s ghost stations into a restaurant, nightclub, and even a theater.
Jessica Hammer is changing Eastern Africa, one dice roll at a time.
It’s one of the most tired clichés in modern life – that thanks in large part to the always-on, always-connected paradigm enabled by modern technology, American lives are busy, crazy, and unhealthy. That may well be true. But it has less to do with technology than we might think – and more interestingly, scientists are starting to get traction in uncovering the optimal speed settings for a happy life. – – – “Everybody knows” that the pace of daily life is speeding up, accelerated by the proliferation of mobile phones, tablets, WiFi and other communication technologies and by fallout from…
The first time I remember seeing a “take a break” message in a game was for Wii Sports. After a set duration of time, a screen popped up between rounds. “Why not take a break?” it said. “You can pause the game by pressing +.” The accompanying image is a stylized freeze-frame of passive aggression: A Wii Remote sits on a table, unheld, the wrist-strap dangling loose. Tranquil blue sky beckons from an open window. Curtains blow in the breeze. As a reminder that there’s a great big world waiting to be explored beyond your living room, you could do…
It seems that somebody at New Jersey’s Patterson Public Library system didn’t get the memo in 2011 that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of games as a form of protected expression. The library system reportedly banned people from playing computer games in the library, catching the attention of the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) in the process. Naturally, the NCAC was none too pleased, offering a letter of protest: – – – Video games are protected speech under the First Amendment and, as such, cannot be regulated or restricted by public officials in response to concerns about their message…