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In Real Life

Hooters Opens Video Game Bar Arcade In Vegas

11:30AM November 30, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »


News

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

2:20AM August 12, 2011 | Mike Fahey

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. More »


News

Would You Pay $US90 To Attend A Minecraft Convention?

8:00AM May 12, 2011 | Owen Good

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? More »


In Real Life

A Vegas Club Puts Its Money On Gaming – Not Gambling

10:00AM February 19, 2011 | Owen Good

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.” More »


Retro

Vegas Entrepreneur Bets On An Arcade

1:30PM February 17, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »


In Real Life

Tripping The Fallout: New Vegas Strip

1:20AM October 15, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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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. More »


In Real Life

Some Of The Best Fights Of EVO 2010

6:00AM July 15, 2010 | Aulistar Mark

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. More »


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

7:00AM March 28, 2010 | Owen Good

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. More »


News

SOE Dates Fan Faire 2010

10:00AM March 5, 2010 | Mike Fahey

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. More »


News

MAG Goes To Vegas, Won’t Stay In Vegas

12:20PM December 31, 2009 | Michael McWhertor

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. More »