Giant, comfy beanbags lay side by side in one of the Adler Planetarium’s spacious theaters. Super Smash Bros., one of the hottest video game releases in the past few months, is being […]
2018 is now gone, so we’re going to take a look at some of our favorite games from a year full of great releases. It was a great year for video games, […]
Contributing Authors: Marielle Shaw and Antal Bokor This was the second year we headed to the Logan Theatre for their annual Playtest Party and found it as packed with people interested in […]
Blizzcon is massive, as we mentioned, and there’s tons to see and do during the convention. Whether you’re live on the floor at the Anaheim Convention Center or you’ve purchased a Virtual […]
Blizzcon, though perhaps not exactly as anticipated as San Diego Comic Con, E3 or even GamesComm, is still a huge event in the world of gaming. Blizzard Entertainment is an industry giant, […]
Ever since the original iteration of Super Smash Bros. was introduced for the N64 back in 1999, it’s been a big deal in the world of fighting games. It had somewhat humble […]
I Play Games (IPG) is an organization we’ve become familiar with at video game events around the city, from Bitbash to C2E2 and even out in Milwaukee for the Midwest Gaming Classic. They […]
In June of 1991, Chicago played host to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Summer Show, featuring all the latest tech—music, TVs, games and other devices. It was also the stage for a dramatic […]
The huge Electronics and Entertainment Expo’s floors open today after a weekend of exciting conferences full of announcements. Some of them, we predicted in our pre-E3 round-up, but even so, there were […]
The yearly Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3, is almost upon us. In fact, there has been a steady stream of hype and news about the event coming in for the […]
This past Friday in Wrigleyville, it was game time. Not for the Cubs, who were still in Spring Training out in the sunshine in Arizona, but for Chicago’s first board game café. Bonus […]
If you hadn’t heard it on the internet today, the Amazon Echo’s ubiquitous smart assistant Alexa is attracting what we suspect is unwanted attention because it is….laughing at people randomly. We first […]
