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In Jobs, Ashton Kutcher Almost Reveals the Man Beyond the Devices

Two Bit Circus, a Startup That's Bringing the Carnival Midway Game Into the 21st Century

iam8bit's Art Show About Retro Video Games, From DuckTales to E.T.

See also: *Entertainment System at iam8bit (Pics) Were you the type of kid who raced home from school to catch DuckTales? Did you have the theme song memorized? Did you spend hours playing the video game? Then maybe you should head down to iam8bit's Echo Park headquarters and go for a swim through ... More >>

5 Arcade Classics for Your iPhone

See also: *Family Fun Arcade Prepares to Close After Four Decades *10 Best Arcades in L.A. Ever get the hankering to play some classic arcade games, but, alas, you're nowhere near your arcade? Or your go-to place is Granada Hills' Family Fun Arcade, which is set to close? If you have an iPhone, yo ... More >>

An L.A. Riots Video Game Concept in Which You Can Be Rodney King

See also: *The Problem Solverz Creator Ben Jones: Using Video Games 'Like Religion' *Five Cheap Ways You Can Support Your Favorite Artists *UCLA Game Art Festival Features Caine's Arcade Made by a 9-Year-Old, and More With E3 ready to take over downtown Los Angeles this week, it makes sense that G ... More >>

Music Picks: Regina Carter, Madness, Melvins, Grace Woodroofe

Also, Neon Indian, Moab, Damien Jurado and others

Gears of War 3: We Played It

​What do you do when you come into possession of a copy of Gears of War 3 and your taste in games is decidedly more Super Mario Brothers? You find someone with an Xbox 360 who is down to play and can, hopefully, show you the ropes. I'm not a gamer. I like what I played as a child-- arcade sta ... More >>

Music Picks: Shunda K, SebastiAn, Fleet Foxes, Miles Evans Band

Also, Ray LaMontagne, Kissing Cousins, the Kills and others

Van Halen Assteroidz Is Back!

​​​In 2009 a great blessing came to be known: Atari video game Asteroids had been hacked to incorporate Van Halen. The simple vector graphics asteroids were replaced by obstacles in the shape of the dancing burger from "Better Off Dead," the Van Halen logo drifting through space, and a rig ... More >>

Frogger 3D and Four Other Games for Those Who Miss Arcades

Shannon CottrellPlaying Skullgirls with Arcade-in-a-Box controllers​"We are now missing the classic arcade style games," says Tak Fujii, producer of Konami's forthcoming Frogger 3D game. It was a sentiment that we heard a lot at E3 last week. Game developers, who are arguably the biggest fans ... More >>

Atari Updates Classic Video Games with Centipede: Infestation and Warlords

Shannon CottrellCheck out our E3 2011 category for more coverage from the show. See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshows, "E3 2011: Day One" and "E3 2011: Day Two." Inside Atari's E3 Booth​At E3 it's easy to get swept away by the new. The three-day show, centered around games that hav ... More >>

Harold Goldberg's All Your Base are Belong to Us and the Cultural History of Video Games as Emotional Story of American Entrepreneurship

Screencap from Sega's Zero Wing​ "All Your Base are Belong to Us" famously circulated as an Internet meme a decade ago. Originating as a poor English translation (from Japanese) of dialogue in Sega's 1991 video game Zero Wing, the phrase has a new life as the title of Harold Goldberg's cultura ... More >>

"There is No Masterplan" - Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Discusses First Tour in 10 Years

"There is No Masterplan" - Atari Teenage Riot's Alec Empire Talks First Tour in 10 Years

Tonight: Pavement, Sonic Youth, Spoon, John Cale, Jamie Lidell, Rob Zombie, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sebastien Tellier

Marcus RothPavement, 1999​Pavement's year-long victory lap has been exhilarating for the band and fans alike -- we know people who haven't stopped grinning since Coachella. But the faithful who have it in the back of their heads that the pride of Stockton might keep the wheels turning and mak ... More >>

Music Picks: Ooh La La Fest, Pavement, Beach House

Also, Kris Kristofferson, the Black Keys, Bettye Lavette and others

Live Review: Blu at the Echo

Marguerite de BourgoingJust One of Those Days​You don't really go to a Blu show to watch him perform. Fact is, he's not really much of a performer. Roaming the stage as if it's his bedroom and he's writing the rhyme as he paces, or standing still save an almost imperceptible nodding of his ... More >>

Everybody Laugh

Top 10 Video Game Food References

It takes a powerhouse blend of stamina and strength to plant yourself on the couch and nudge a thumbstick back and forth for hours at a time. Why else would gamers require a dedicated line of "performance snacks?" Ok, every collaboration between gamer and grub doesn't need to be farcical and insulti ... More >>

Flying Lotus Rising

Could spiritual electronica be the next great California sound?

Images for the Post-Video Age

Director Keith Schofield Makes Viral Video Stars

2009: The Year in Obsessions

L.A. Weekly’s music editor lists the 10 records he couldn’t get out of his head

Have You Played Atari Today? Bringing the Original 2600 out of Storage

Kevin ScanlonAbout 12 years ago, my wife and I pulled her original Atari 2600 out of storage and hooked it up to our television. We set it on the floor, next to my Sega Genesis, and showed it to our kids. "What's that?" One of them asked. "This is how we started playing video games at home when we ... More >>

At L.A.'s E3 Summit: The Business of Beautiful Killing Games

Faster, Dracula! Kill! Kill! Bloodthirsty peeks at the latest versions of Flock, BioShock, Borderlands, WolfQuest and Castlevania, plus Konami designer Koji Igarashi

Super Boll

In a web exclusive, our conversation with the Postal director continues

Rock Picks: R.E.M., Von Bondies, Ladytron

And other May 22-29 shows

Uwe Boll Goes Postal

Notorious German director spars with his critics, makes an intentional comedy

Rock Picks: The Dirtbombs, Robyn, Dizzee Rascal

And other May 15-22 shows

Crystal Castles: Not Total Hipster Bullshit

You'll have to forgive me this one. I know I'm late. Ian Cohen tossed a 7.8 to Crystal Castles' in his Pitchfork review of their eponymous debut back in March and the blogosphere had been incessantly buzzing about the Toronto duo of Ethan Kath and Alice Glass for well over a year prior. But dance ... More >>

Giant Joystick Lands in Echo Park

If you Google the phrase "Giant Joystick," one of the first names that comes up isn't a well-endowed porn star, but artist Jason Torchinsky, who actually built a scale-model of the classic Atari 2600 controller, except at 15x the size of the ones we had as kids. Dozens of people showed up at M ... More >>

Beautiful Mutants in a Plastic World

The vinyl underground

Patrick Wolf: Big, Big Star

Patrick Wolf at the Troubadour, May 16

Where to Eat Now

Thirty-five new entires to the list

Electric Meals

uWink Media Bistro

The Wrath of Pong

Putting down the Kalashnikov, picking up the Joola blade

The Military Games People Play

And the artists who play right back

Lost at Sea

Paddling upstream down the 99

It’s High Time

My Own Private Spaceship

The Pope on Hope

Portraits of Obsession

Photographs by Max S. Gerber

Nightlife