In Real Life

Insert Coins Back In May For Ghost Recon: Future Soldier Launch Party

Kotaku AU

Everyone’s favourite evening of games, music, graffiti and alcoholic milkshakes is back at the Oxford Arts Factory in Sydney on May 17. You’ll be able to play the final build of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier over multiple screens, a week before its release. Plus: retro games and foot-long hotdogs!


November 8, 2011
In Real Life

Insert Coins Strikes Back This Thursday

Kotaku AU

Insert Coins — an evening of games, music, art, and beverages — is making its return this Thursday at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory. If you live in Sydney and haven’t already made plans for a late-night-shopping extravaganza at your local supermarket, this may be a thing to do!


September 9, 2011
In Real Life

Reader Review: Insert Coins

Kotaku AU

Last night marked the launch of Insert Coins, a new regular gaming night that combines arcades with new games, music, art, and beverages. Kotaku reader Jess Hodgson went along and exercised his thumbs on Kotaku’s behalf.


September 7, 2011
News

Insert Coins Launches Tomorrow

Kotaku AU

With many of Sydney’s arcades closing, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a wide range of arcade machines all in the same place. Cue Insert Coins: a new, monthly event that brings together arcade machines, games, art, drinks, and music. The best part? It launches tomorrow.


February 19, 2011
In Real Life

A Vegas Club Puts Its Money On Gaming – Not Gambling

The idea, says Christopher LaPorte, is you’ll come into his club, sit on a large, luxurious couch, and examine a list handed to you by an attractive cocktail waitress. You’ll then say something like, “I’ll have the Mega Man 3, 1990. Please bring two controllers.”


February 17, 2011
Retro

Vegas Entrepreneur Bets On An Arcade

Fremont Street in Las Vegas is where you find the low rollers. The five-dollar tables and four-dollar steaks. It’s a district with lower rents and higher ambitions, and that’s where one gaming-themed bar is set to open later this year.