News

Man Versus Machine: Breaking The Unbreakable High Score

As you read this, history is in the making. Asteroids is being played with great verve. High scores will topple.


March 29, 2010
News

The Penny Arcade Expo’s Real Arcade

On the third floor of the Hynes Convention centre in Boston, visitors to the Penny Arcade Expo East get to visit an actual arcade, filled with free-to-play arcade cabinets and pinball machines, just like mother used to make.


March 3, 2010
News

Negotiations Underway To Inflict Space Invaders Movie On Us All

Did you ever play Space Invaders and, while you were dodging and firing and shooting, make up a story about who was in the tank and wish you could someday see them in a movie? Yeah, I didn’t either.


January 28, 2010
In Real Life

Hyperspace Is When You Eat Them

Iced chocolate graham cracker cookies recreating a scene from Asteroids. As seen on Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories via The Daily What.


November 24, 2009
News

Atari Adds An Arcade To Its Web Page

Why sit at your computer working all day long when you can head over to the new Atari.com and play Yars Revenge all day long?


September 10, 2009

Kotaku’s Fall Fashion Special

Spring is here and that means prices and temperatures are rising. But you can still score a nerd-tinged wardrobe without breaking the bank, thanks to this handy save-splurge gamer apparel guide.


July 26, 2009
In Real Life

Asteroids Movie Is About Relationships; Also, Blowing Up Crap

The Asteroids movie will deliver a “really strong, deep mythology,” for “this big thing in space,” says the guy blamed credited as the film’s producer.


July 2, 2009
News

Universal Wins Rights To Produce An…Asteroids Movie

This should be a hoot. Seems Universal Pictures have won a bidding war against three other studios for the right to produce a movie based on Asteroids. Yes. The 1979 game Asteroids.


March 14, 2009
In Real Life

Tomatoes Can Play Asteroids Too, You Know

From the same people that brought you the history of gaming (in Sauerkraut) comes this: a game of asteroids. Played with tomatoes. Don’t ask why. Just ask “Zaxxon with celery next, please”.


January 28, 2009
In Real Life

Play Assteroidz! Shoot Bullets From David Lee Roth’s Crotch

Assteroidz! is the perfect blend of David Lee Roth high-kicks and screams with Asteroids. Yes, perfect!