Arts & Entertainment Things To Do This Week: Free Tulips, ‘Screaming Queens’, Bikes & Books, Burlesque, Game Fest This week, March 17-23: The annual free tulip event will be at Union Square; Roxie's having a one-night screening of the Compton Cafeteria riot doc, 'Screaming Queens'; plus, bikes and books, a burlesque extravaganza, and a free game fest.
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Star PewDiePie Again In Trouble For Racist Speech, This Time With SF Game Company 27-year-old Swedish vlogger PewDiePie, who for reasons I can't even wrap my head around made $15 million last year for essentially rambling like a crazy person and taking video of himself playing video
Arts & Entertainment GaymerX Conference To Power Queer Gamers Into Multiplayer Mode Add to the list of the too many things to do this week the groundbreaking annual queer gamer conference GaymerX in San Jose (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2). The world’s first LGBT
SF News Microsoft Reminds Us What Most Gamers Really Think Of Women At GDC Extremely disappointed @Microsoft and @Xbox hired women wearing these outfits to perform at @gdc. PLEASE RT. pic.twitter.com/JYFTTGdzQk— Brianna Wu, Yeah! (@Spacekatgal) March 18, 2016 Microsoft had an archaic message for
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hilarious Vintage Ad For Computer Sound Card This is an ad, circa the late-1980s, for the AdLib Music Synthesizer Card, geared toward video games made for the PC. The company would be out of business by 1992, as the YouTube
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Play These Classic Video Games While You Wait For The Castro's Arcade Game Bar To Open We urge you to spend today playing QBert and Super Mario, Galaga, Tron, and Dig Dug in anticipation of the Castro's upcoming gay bar that will feature a slew of classic arcade games.
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.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Miss Coco Peru Plays 'Grand Theft Auto 5' Can Miss Coco Peru make this a regular thing? The world (gaming or otherwise) needs more Peru commentary while playing video games — especially one as violent (and fun) as GTA 5.
Arts & Entertainment World's First LGBT Gamer Convention Comes to S.F. This Weekend The gaming world is full of dicks, and not in a good way. Gay guys and women (especially women) aren't typically welcome within this fascinating world of digital dorkdom. (Your SFist editor's own
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 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 Tribal Casino Revenues Down Across State According to a new report, tribal gaming resorts in California saw a 6% drop in revenue in 2008, and the report's author, Alan Meister, foresees a similar drop across the local industry in
misc Gay Gamers Treated Badly by Kids in Gaming Universe It's probably not news to anyone who's played an internet-enabled, multi-player video game in the last few years (or anyone who's ever met a teenage boy, for that matter) that LGBT gamers often
SF News South SF Man Robbed for his PlayStation3 Around 2 p.m. Friday on the 800 block of Southwood Drive in South San Francisco, an 18-year-old man was robbed of his PlayStation 3. (Mean!) According to KNTV, "he was sitting on
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
