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Video Games With A Refugee
Nov 16th, 2012 at 10:00AM:
"Are you American?"
The little boy with the big brown eyes was sitting at the couch next to mine in the lobby of my hotel in Najaf, Iraq. He was dressed in jeans, a button-down shirt and sneakers. He peered at me over the edge of his iPad. I looked up from my email.
"No, I'm Canadian. You Iraqi?"
"I'm Lebanese but I live in Syria. We move back to Lebanon now."
"Your English is ...
Video game exhibition coming to the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Jan 18th, 2012 at 2:30PM: Gamers: put "World of Warcraft" on pause, lay down your controllers, and take note. Beginning on March 16, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, will open the first major exhibition of video games. The Art of Video Games will show how video games as an artistic medium have evolved over the past 40 years and will feature 80 games, all of which were chosen in a public vote in 2011. ...Free airport WiFi for Nintendo 3DS users from Boingo Wireless
Dec 9th, 2011 at 1:30PM: Boingo Wireless and Nintendo have teamed up to bring Nintendo 3DS owners free airport WiFi access in 42 airports across the United States, including Chicago O'Hare, New York JFK, and Houston George Bush Intercontinental.
The Nintendo 3DS is already a great travel companion, with its open-source Internet browser and built-in camera, not to mention a catalog of hundreds of addictive games ...Video of the Day: Arkanoid on a Seoul building
Jun 20th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
We kind of love finding YouTube videos without descriptions. It's endlessly fun to try to piece together what the heck is happening. In the video above, it appears as if someone is playing the old Arkanoid video game on the massive LED screen in Seoul Square in South Korea's capital. In fact, it looks like it might just be the world's largest LED screen. Beyond that, your guess is as good as ...
Berlin's latest attraction: The Computer Game Museum
Jan 23rd, 2011 at 10:00AM: If you're under thirty, computer games have always been a part of your life, but for us old farts wise elders, we remember the first time we took hold of a joystick and moved a spaceship through an asteroid field, or ran a ravenous little yellow circle around a maze while being chased by ghosts. If you're under twenty, you probably don't even know what games I'm talking about.
Here's your ...Undiscovered New York: Modern art in Long Island City
Aug 12th, 2009 at 11:00AM: It's no secret New York is downright spoiled by a world-class modern art scene. Art lovers flock to great museums like MoMA, galleries in Chelsea and the famous annual Armory Show. With all this great creativity so close at hand, it's hard to believe that one of New York's best neighborhoods for modern art isn't in Manhattan - it actually lies just across the East River in Long Island City. Long ...Have some sake with your friend Super Mario
May 18th, 2008 at 1:00PM: The Gadling crew has been spending a lot of hours in Japan recently. And as I discovered on my recent trip to Tokyo, the Japanese are completely obsessed with video games. The country that is home to Nintendo offers all manner of ways to get your gaming fix. In Tokyo's Akihabara neighborhood, I discovered a store that sold nothing but vintage video game consoles, where systems like the Sega Game ...Big in Japan: Video Games that Kill
Aug 24th, 2007 at 1:30PM: We interrupt our regularly scheduled feature column to bring you an important news bulletin that may save your life, the life of your friends and even the life of your children.
Video games can kill - well, at least this one can.
Earlier this week, an arm wrestling video game known as 'Arm Spirit' was removed from arcades across Japan as a precaution. Apparently, the move was prompted by Atlus, ...
