In Real Life

Hooters Opens Video Game Bar Arcade In Vegas

Hooters Casino Hotel’s newest addition is a 21-and-over video game arcade that features classic arcade games, drink-serving “gamer girls” and private video game console booths.


August 12, 2011
News

Get Your Tickets To The MineCraft Convention Before They’re Gone

The official website for MineCon, the first annual celebration of all things MineCraft, is incredibly difficult to get to at the moment, as tickets for the big November event have officially gone on sale for $US99 apiece.


May 12, 2011
News

Would You Pay $US90 To Attend A Minecraft Convention?

Six months before Minecraft‘s full release is due, creator Markus “Notch” Persson is pondering a gala event in Vegas on its release day – MinecraftCon, on 11/11/11, “with all of [development studio]Mojang going there, and us pushing out the final release live on stage or something”. Would you pay to see that?


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.


October 15, 2010
In Real Life

Tripping The Fallout: New Vegas Strip

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“Walking around in drunken stupors, puking on the sidewalks, dancing naked in fountains, that sort of thing.” Fallout: New Vegas area designer Eric Fenstermaker sums up the Las Vegas strip in one sentence in the latest developer diary.


July 15, 2010
In Real Life

Some Of The Best Fights Of EVO 2010

EVO the annual fighting game world championships draws hundreds of players competing in six games. It has created gaming stars, like 2010 Super Street Fighter IV (SSFIV) champion Daigo Umehara, and a reputation for unbelievable game-play seen nowhere else.


March 28, 2010

Vegas Kicked My Ass, But I Returned The Favour — With A Video Game

Two weeks ago I simulated the NCAA Tournament on my Xbox 360 and vowed to bet its first round predictions “like a message from the future.” My friends called that the stupidest thing they’d ever heard. They were right.


March 5, 2010
News

SOE Dates Fan Faire 2010

It’s time to learn the date of the annual gathering of Sony Online Entertainment players, who will be flocking to Las Vegas this August to awkwardly realise that no one is really a Wood Elf, and the world is sad.


December 31, 2009
News

MAG Goes To Vegas, Won’t Stay In Vegas

Super Street Fighter IV won’t be the only game in town during next week’s CES convention in Las Vegas. Sony’s bringing Zipper Interactive’s PlayStation 3 shooter MAG to the show, giving fans a chance to rub elbows and shoot bullets.