Business & Tech Google Loses Antitrust Suit Brought By Fortnite Maker Epic Games Epic Games, the maker of popular mobile game Fortnite, has prevailed in a federal lawsuit brought in San Francisco against Google over anticompetitive practices relating to the company's app store for Android phones.
Business & Tech SF-Based Pokémon GO Creator Niantic is Laying Off Nearly 100, Canceling Games Not Named Pokémon GO Just six months after being handed $300 million, but a full six years since their last real hit, the game company behind Pokémon GO is letting “85 to 90 jobs” go.
Arts & Entertainment New Video Game Imagines San Francisco In 3022, After 200 Feet of Sea Level Rise A new PlayStation game by Sony-owned Guerrilla Games depicts San Francisco and some other parts of the state as they might appear without so many humans, in a distant future well populated by threatening robotic dinosaurs.
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 Have You Seen Mogamin, The Video Game Car Back Roaming The Mission? SF native Maurice Ford, mostly known as Mo, has for about a year been setting up video games for passersby to play out of his 1991 Honda Accord, mostly on the streets of
Arts & Entertainment Francis Ford Coppola Is Trying To Crowd-Fund An 'Apocalypse Now' Video Game 77-year-old auteur and winery owner Francis Ford Coppola keeps himself quite busy, what with a couple of restaurants and wineries up in the North Bay including this Native American-themed one that just opened
SF News Someone Projected A Giant Game Of Super Mario Onto The Side Of A Lower Haight Building We all need a little harmless distraction, especially right now, and for many people that need is met by video games. One resident of San Francisco, however, apparently required something a bit bigger.
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
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
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Super Mario BART (Redux) Speaking of vintage arcade games... remember when somebody last year made a rudimentary BART map in the 8-bit style of Super Mario Bros.? Well, now Super Mario enthusiast Robert Bacon, who's made something
SF News Airbnb Squatters Are Seasoned Scam Artists, Squatted In S.F. Before As it turns out, (possibly) Russian brothers Maksym and Denys Pashanin, now forever known as the Airbnb Squatters, had eviction papers served to them in a San Francisco SRO way back in 2009.
SF News Airbnb Squatter ID'd, Says He 'Would Squat Again' The two Russian brothers who are accused of squatting in one woman's Airbnb condo in Palm Springs have been identified publicly as Maksym and Denys Pashanin. Maksym Pashanin is the person who rented
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.
SF News American And British Spies Have Wasted A Lot Of Time On World Of Warcraft Looking For Terrorists As part of the trove of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, The Guardian and Pro Publica are now reporting that some pertain to a years-long effort to infiltrate potential terrorist
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Long Line In The Mission For 'Grand Theft Auto V' Release San Francisco's Mission District, home of the placated infantilized male, saw a long line early Tuesday morning for neither food nor food truck. The queue -- around 100 deep, according to David Downs
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 Go Do This Thing This Weekend: Stereo, a 3D Party Featuring Ladytron, Ms. Pac-Man A first-of-its-kind annual shindig is happening this weekend at 550 Barneveld, and it's called Stereo. It's a multi-room, multi-media affair featuring a DJ set from Ladytron, famed Sugar DJ Ellen Ferrato, an 80s
SF News Deplorable Teen Shoots, Stabs Friend Over Video Game A 17-year-old is in custody today after shooting at and then stabbing his 20-year-old friend on Monday. It happened after the pair were playing an online video game in their respective homes. Either
SF News Supreme Court Denies California's Violent Video Game Ban [Updated: Yee Responds] California's proposed law to ban the sale of violent video games to minors was shot down when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional on a 7-2 vote this morning. Justice Scalia blew up
SF News Mt. Diablo School Employee Arrested for Luring Boys with Her XBox This lovely dove here, Janis Thompson, a 44-year-old Martinez resident and part-time yard duty supervisor with the Mount Diablo Unified School District, was arrested yesterday for trolling young men, then "instigating sexual conversation.
misc Video: Epic Beard Man's Punch-Out for Nintendo We're about a week late on the latest Epic Beard Man meme, but this video is definitely the best of the bunch.
misc Weekend Palate Cleanser: Super Mario Galaxy Spec Ad As many gamers are probably aware, the New Super Mario Bros. for Wii gets its world-wide release tomorrow, and Nintendo is having at least one big launch shindig in Manhattan today, according to
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
Arts & Entertainment Video Game Developers Descend on Moscone The 2009 Video Game Developers Conference kicked off today, and so the city is more filled than usual with the designers and programmers who bring you everything from Grand Theft Auto to iPhone
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight: Play Classic Arcade Games at Aquarius Records One more quick idea for the SFist Tonight bin... As if we didn't already love our local heartfelt-mixtape-in-the-form-of-a-record-shop Aquarius Records enough, they just went a step further. Snipped from their mailing list: Wednesday,
