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Pac-Man Dumplings Make For Adorable Dim Sum

5:30AM September 2, 2011 | Joel Johnson

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. More »

In Real Life

Sneezing Radio, Human Avatar Machine, And Other Museum Pieces

8:00AM July 28, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

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. More »

Mobile

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

9:30AM June 30, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

News

New Rainbow 6 Might Be The Most Innovative Shooter In Years

3:00AM June 24, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »

In Real Life

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

3:00PM June 22, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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”. More »

Nintendo

Kid Gets School Ban On Pokémon Overturned

12:40AM June 18, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

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. More »

In Real Life

Is Cory Arcangel An Arsehole?

4:00AM May 27, 2011 | Joel Johnson

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? More »

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Promoter Sues Microsoft Over Kinect Launch Event

8:00AM April 11, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

News

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

9:00AM March 25, 2011 | Owen Good

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. More »

In Real Life

So, Some Guy Is Already Lining Up For A 3DS

5:40PM March 23, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

The Nintendo 3DS is not released in the United States until Saturday. So lining up on the street outside a Manhattan Best Buy seems… smart? No, that’s not the word we’re looking for… More »