In Real Life

Video Games Are Coming To Life And Destroying (or At Least Confusing) San Francisco

Kenny Kong is an artist who, for the past three years, has been working with Zenimax on The Elder Scrolls Online. Having since chucked that in to pursue a Masters at California College of the Arts, he’s been able to do things a little more interesting.


July 8, 2011
PlayStation

Detroit Muscles In On Driver: San Francisco’s Fleet

More than 120 licensed vehicles, modern makes and classic models, populate the world of Driver: San Francisco. The City by the Bay was the scene of the greatest car chase in cinema history, Dodge vs. Ford, so the fleet reveal for Ubisoft’s action racer naturally genuflects to American automotive pride. Driver: San Francisco releases Aug. 30.


March 3, 2011
In Real Life

Gamestop’s Balloons Don’t Fly In San Francisco

GameStop’s Homefront promotion for the Game Developers Conference involved releasing hundreds of red balloons in the downtown of one of the most environmentally conscious cities in America. Many floated into its neighbouring bay. Bad idea? Yeah, you could say that.


February 16, 2011
In Real Life

How You Can Help Build A World-Class Video Game Museum

The staff at the Museum of Digital Art and Entertainment have the knowledge, passion and the gaming artifacts to create a world-class video game museum in the San Francisco Bay area. Now they just need a place to put it.


January 21, 2011
In Real Life

Bus Shelters Turn Wait Times Into Neighbourhood Deathmatches

Web giant Yahoo has installed 20 large touchscreen displays in bus shelters across San Francisco. These displays are not for trailers. Instead, they’re to let people engage in some free multiplayer gaming.


November 13, 2010
News

Mafia Wars Agency Takes The Rap For Vandal-Marketing Stunt

An ad agency has taken the fall for a guerrilla marketing stunt that had the city of San Francisco threatening Facebook-games maker Zynga with vandalism and other charges. The agency will pay the city $US45,000 in fines.


September 14, 2010
In Real Life

Saving Professor Layton’s London In San Francisco

People puzzling in the streets of San Francisco during Nintendo’s Professor Layton and the Unwound Future special event. Be sure to read Kotaku’s full review!


August 21, 2010
News

Mafia Wars’ Guerrilla Marketing Infuriates San Francisco

A marketing stunt for the Facebook game Mafia Wars, which pasted fake $US25,000 bills onto San Francisco’s footpaths, has the city’s Department of Works steam cleaning them – and steaming mad.


August 20, 2010
News

Farmville Makers Attacked Over Real-World "Vandalism"

Zynga, the company behind Facebook titles like Farmville and Mafia Wars, is in trouble with the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office over reports of vandalism linked to the developer’s advertisements.


August 8, 2010
In Real Life

Hey, Gimme That, You Big… Ape

At the San Francisco Zoo yesterday, photographer Christina Spicuzza captured five pictures of gorillas playing around with a DSi XL. They later touched a monolith and used the handheld to slay an eohippus.