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You Should Be Watching This Gaming Documentary Series

Here’s a welcome break from fan-flicks and comedy videos. Psycho Crusher Productions are a team setting out to “make gamers as famous as the games they play”, courtesy of a series of films called GAM3R.


A Real Photo That Makes Manhattan Look Like SimCity

Photographer Sergey Semonov is responsible for the above image that makes the heart of New York City look like a spline that’s just been reticulated.


My Insane Hurricane Sandy Video, As Seen On The Weather Channel

What you see above is an electrical fire in Queens, New York, that I took last night at around 8pm local time (11am AEDT). My dad and I walked outside to check the damage Hurricane Sandy had done to our neighbourhood in Douglaston. Winds were very powerful, but nothing seemed too crazy. Not just yet.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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.


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”.


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.


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