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In Real Life

40,000 Orthodox Jews Fill New York Stadium For Internet Rally

Sunday afternoon at New York’s Citi Field, and the stands are full to capacity. They’re packed not with New York Mets fans, though. They’re packed with 40,000 Orthodox Jews, there to attend a rally against the more nefarious aspects of the internet.

September 2, 2011
In Real Life

Pac-Man Dumplings Make For Adorable Dim Sum

Newly opened dim sum joint Red Farm, in New York’s West Village, is serving “Pac-Man Dumpings”. Sweet potato Pac-Man is cute! (And the Katz’s pastrami spring rolls sound kind of amazing, as well.) The decor has a spiffed up tin-roof-rustic thing going on, too, as well as one of those big long common tables that driver out-of-towners insane with intimacy.

July 28, 2011
In Real Life

Sneezing Radio, Human Avatar Machine, And Other Museum Pieces

We expect objects to talk to us. That’s the core concept of the excellent exhibition Talk to Me running now, through November 7 at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. If you are interested in video games, radios that sneeze, Rubik’s Cubes for the blind or any of the many other ways.

June 30, 2011
Mobile

World Of Fourcraft Is Like Real-Life Risk, Played In New York

Foursquare, the hot social network expansion that… does… social things… yeah, actually, that’s sort of the problem. Sensing an opportunity to make the “check-in” utility for Twitter “more compelling for long-term use”, some people have used it to turn New York into a giant game of Risk.

June 24, 2011
News

New Rainbow 6 Might Be The Most Innovative Shooter In Years

While Ubisoft’s still-secret, yet-to-be named Rainbow 6 game skipped an E3 appearance this year, it is still very much in the works we’re told.

June 22, 2011
In Real Life

Mother Accused Of Beating Son To Death After Wii Game Breaks TV

A 21-year old Bronx woman has been charged with murder and manslaughter after the death of her five year-old son, killed after he “broke the television while playing Nintendo Wii”.

June 18, 2011
Nintendo

Kid Gets School Ban On Pokémon Overturned

New York student Lucas Ayala, who goes to Out World Neighbourhood School in Queens, was so sick of a ban on playing with Pokémon cards during breaks that he wrote the school a letter, asking them to reconsider.

May 27, 2011
In Real Life

Is Cory Arcangel An Arsehole?

The artist known as Cory Arcangel first made his name with the installation “Super Mario Clouds v2k3” at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, in which the 8-bit clouds of the original Nintendo Entertainment System classic were projected across a wide open space. The art world ate it up, but did it actually mean anything?

April 11, 2011
Xbox

Promoter Sues Microsoft Over Kinect Launch Event

Remember the Times Square launch event for Kinect last fall? It took some begging, pleading, and cold hard cash just to happen, when the cops made the last-minute discovery a full blown concert didn’t have the requisite permits. The promoter who made all the bad stuff go away says Microsoft owes him $US63,000 for it.

March 25, 2011
News

Cops Called On The Only Man Camping Out For 3DS Launch

This guy has been waiting outside a New York City Best Buy since Tuesday, a one-man campout line waiting for the Nintendo 3DS. That is, until store security called the cops to shoo him off. Look, I don’t mean to stir the pot, but we know what’s going on here: It’s because store security is white and this man wears a Power Glove in public.

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