Pinball Is Going Full Tilt in L.A.
Pinball is now back in a major way, snagging a new generation of happy millennial fans who've been won over by the game's rattling, buzzing excitement and its thrilling nexus between fortune, technique...
View Article9 Arcades and Bars to Get Your Pinball Fix
Whether you're looking for the newest or the oldest, we've got you covered.
View ArticleIndieCade: These Innovative New Games Don't Require a Console. Or Even...
It's late afternoon in Culver City and a small group of IndieCade attendees are sitting around a table, tiny treasure chests in front of us. Our palms are clasped shut. We may or may not be holding...
View ArticleGameHaus Cafe, a New Glendale Hangout Spot With 700 Board Games
If you're an Angeleno looking to take a Risk, break monotony's Monopoly on your life and say "Sorry!" to the usual weekend routine, have the guys behind GameHäus Café got an offer for you. Robert Cron...
View ArticleTrapped in a Room With a Zombie Shows What It's Like to Be Trapped in a Room...
"What's in a name?" Juliet famously asked. For the no-nonsense folks at Ohio-based Room Escape Adventures, literally everything, it turns out. Trapped in a Room With a Zombie pretty much sums up...
View ArticleCards Against Humanity: Los Angeles Edition
Compiled and edited by Eve Weston and Zachary Pincus-Roth, with contributions from Ali Trachta, Lisa Horowitz, Jennifer Swann, Hillel Aron, Jill Stewart and Katie Buenneke What does Lance Armstrong's...
View ArticleGreat Horror Campout Scared the Crap Out of L.A. Last Weekend (VIDEO)
Shrieks pierced the darkness at the Griffith Park Old Zoo in Los Angeles as hundreds gathered to get the crap scared out of them at the Great Horror Campout. After the campout, campers shared their...
View ArticleScrabble Dictionary Gets 5,000 New Words, Including “Chillax,” "Dubstep" and...
Every Scrabble player worth her salt (4 points) knows the value of two-letter words. Those little terms can really get you out of a jam (12) and block out your opponent. So when “da” was removed from...
View ArticleL.A. Becomes a Battleground in Google's Augmented Reality Game Ingress
Shadows dance along the vaulted Spanish Colonial-style arches of Pasadena City Hall. It’s 8 p.m. on a Friday last month, and one lone man, then another, then a couple stop on the steps. They ask each...
View ArticleI Spent Saturday Trapped in a Stadium, Solving a Puzzle With 500 People
As the sun sets over the concrete wasteland that is a stadium without a sporting event, eerie ambient music echoes through the speakers and across the field at East L.A. College. An emcee of sorts,...
View ArticleA Virtual Reality Video Game That Can Detect When You Feel Scared
"I feel like a kid with new toys," says Erin Reynolds inside the small, Glendale office where she and a very small team are developing horror video game Nevermind. Since 2011, when she first started...
View Article10 L.A. Arcades Worth Your Quarters
In the three years since L.A. Weekly's last arcade roundup, the IRL gaming landscape in L.A. has changed. Former favorites like fighting-game hot spot Family Fun Arcade in Granada Hills and Little...
View ArticleIs the Selfie Pinball League the Future of Arcade Tournament Play?
Selfies are good for lots of things: to prove you visited a major tourist spot, to capture the moment you met your favorite celebrity or — take it from the Kardashians — to show off your flawless...
View ArticleThis Pop-Up Mini-Golf Course in Echo Park Is Actually a Collection of...
Slap some sunscreen on your nose and grab a tiny, eraser-less pencil. There’s a pop-up mini-golf course in an empty lot near Echo Park Lake. TURF is a nine-hole, temporary mini-golf course designed by...
View ArticleCall of Duty Composer Sarah Schachner Makes Video Games Sound Epic
Mixing orchestral parts with analog synths, Schachner takes a unique approach to her craft, as heard on her latest soundtrack for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
View ArticleA Couple of Wet Hot American Summer Superfans Turned It Into a D&D-Style...
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View ArticleGamer Culture's Hottest New Collectible: Video Game Soundtracks on Vinyl
With lavishly packaged soundtracks to popular games like Cuphead, Persona 5 and Rez Infinite, iam8bit has tapped into a new market: gamers who also collect vinyl.
View ArticleYoung Creatives Are Using Games to Take on Issues Like Racism and the Refugee...
Racism and migration aren't topics one would expect to encounter while playing a game. At this year's IndieCade, you might do just that. In the alternate-reality game Tracking Ida, players learn about...
View ArticleThe Disneyland of Stoned Gaming
Considering that millions of people have been enjoying faded gaming since Pong first flickered into arcades in the mid-'70s, it's remarkable that a stoned gaming tournament didn't happen sooner. But...
View ArticlePinball Is Going Full Tilt in L.A.
Pinball is now back in a major way, snagging a new generation of happy millennial fans who've been won over by the game's rattling, buzzing excitement and its thrilling nexus between fortune, technique...
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