Arts & Entertainment 'Unicorn Startup Simulator' Lets You Get Valued Or Die Trying Over And Over Again In the large field of startup send-up and parody, a new entry, Unicorn Startup Simulator feels like a rare breed, in that it's so bizarre and fun. The goal of the game, naturally,
Arts & Entertainment Pokemon Go App Can Access Your Email And Contacts On iPhones Posing Major Privacy Problem A little privacy, please?#PokemonGO pic.twitter.com/7eqPmstl90— ENTJ Probs (@entj_probs) July 10, 2016 Now that the world and your social media feed has been overtaken with Pokemon Go news, it
SF News Zynga HQ Officially Worth More Than Zynga It's official: The Zynga headquarters is now worth more than Zynga. We learned in February that the maker of Farmville intended to sell its Design District office building for was what assumed to
Arts & Entertainment Yes!: Help Kickstart This Bay Area Version Of Cards Against Humanity Cards Against Humanity — the profane person's Apples To Apples — is an already ubiquitous game in the Bay, readily found in dive bars or on back patios. If somehow you've never played, it's pretty
SF News Meanwhile, At The Annual Game Developers Conference... Marcus Ingvarsson, right, tests out the PlayStation 4 virtual reality headset Project Morpheus in a demo area at the Game Developers Conference happening this week at Moscone Center.
SF News Suspect Charged In Playstation 4 Murder San Francisco police now have a 21-year-old man in custody charged with the murder of 22-year-old Ikenna Uwakah on Sunday in the Bayview. Uwakah was killed while sitting in his car preparing to
Arts & Entertainment 49ers Preview: San Francisco At St. Louis; Assault Follow-up (By Daisy Barringer) After a very short week, the (1-2) 49ers face off against division rivals the (1-2) Rams tonight in St. Louis. The short week + traveling across the country + the fact that
Arts & Entertainment We Want This Bay Area RISK Board! Finally, Palo Alto and Menlo Park can finally admit how much they hate each other and nothing lies between Muir Woods and the Richmond but the merest sliver of bridge. In this version
SF News Zynga Lays Off 500+ Employees, Some Of Whom Learn Via Facebook It was a bloody Monday for Zynga, the San Francisco-based gaming company with the friendly dog mascot. Yesterday the company announced massive layoffs which cut 18% of Zynga's workforce and totalled 520 employees.
Arts & Entertainment Bye, Productivity: Go To Google Images, Search Atari Breakout This year Atari's Breakout celebrates its 37th birthday, In honor, Google has added a nifty feature to Google Images. Do this now: go to Google Images, search "Atari Breakout." If you're too lazy,
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Massive Plinko Game At Hotel Zetta Hotel Zetta welcomed their first guests today during their soft opening. Both the lobby and second-floor mezzanine offer an interactive thrill -- specifically, a Plinko wall inspired by the greatest game on The
Arts & Entertainment Video: Fantastic Post-It Mural Welcomes Game Developers Conference It's that time of year again when GameSpot, located at 235 Second Street in San Francisco, creates a nifty Post-It mural in honor of the Game Developers Conference now in progress. In all
SF News Map: Every Operating Pinball Machine In San Francisco Mission Mission came across this map created by San Francisco Pinball Flippers that shows practically every working pinball machines available in San Francisco. Whether it be at a bar, restaurant or club, this
SF News S.F. Game Site Asks if Mass Effect 3 Gay Characters Will Harm 'Traditional Moral Values' A recent article from San Francisco tech website Ubergizmo asks if a new game, Mass Effect 3, will hurt traditional moral values. Why? Because the latest installment of the RPG shooter will allow
SF News Apple Responds to Children's Games Plaguing Parents' iTunes Bills First, elderly rock 'n' roller Bon Jovi gives Steve Jobs grief over allegedly killing the craft of album listening - which, pipe down, Jon Bon - now customers are complaining that their rotten
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Werner Herzog's 1972 film, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, stars Klaus Kinski as the barbaric Aguirre in "a performance you will never forget," alongside his then teenage, real-life daughter, Natasha Kinski, on
misc Just Awesome, SF's Board Game Store, Reopens by Amy Crocker Today at 3:30 the grand re-opening of Just Awesome, devoted to classic and new board games, goes down.. The store first opened in Noe Valley in December 2008 and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight GAMES: Help Homefrys continue their experiment in connecting people by playing games together in person at Homefrys Game Night. Party games, word games, trivia games, and classic games -- "60 pounds of games"
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Director Cathy Cook explores the life of poet Lorine Niedecker, who has been described as the 20th century's Emily Dickinson, in her film, Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker, which "weaves
SF News San Francisco Rubik's Cube Competition Results SF Weekly is positively livid this morning that local media outlets previewed the 2009 Rubik's Cube Competition, but failed to publish said competition's esults. And SFist is one of them. (Stupid inauguration!) So,
SF News Grand Theft Auto IV Vigourously Bought Over at EB Games on Powell Street, people lined up this morning to plunk down $60 to commit heinous acts of vehicular manslaughter. You see, Grand Theft Auto IV went on sale today.
SF News Gary Gygax, Co-Creator of Dungeons & Dragons, Dies Laughing Squid broke the news that game designer Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (1974)/co-founder of Tactical Studies Rules, died today at the ripe age of 69. According to LS, his
misc SFist Plays Professor Layton and the Curious Village Do you remember classic brainteaser puzzles like the one where you have to put wolves and chickens on rafts, but only in certain combinations? Or the one where you have to draw things
SF News Global Monopoly Game Embroiled in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict In January we mentioned a global Monopoly board game where you could vote on which cities you want on Hasbro's latest version of the popular board game, Monopoly Here and Now: The World
SF News It's Got to be the Morning After You remember how all those douche-baggy ex-frat guys would wear those striped, Nick Lachey shirts whenever they went out? We’re pretty the new look for those guys is anything with a Red
