Yesterday we noted that Spike Jonze and Arcade Fire’s short film Scenes From the Suburbs was now available online… Unless You Live In America or Canada. Well guess what? It’s once again OK to live in America, as Scenes From the Suburbs has made its indirect way onto YouTube. America, Fuck Yeah! Directed by Spike […]

Awhile back we posted that Arcade Fire + Spike Jonze = Probably Really F*cking Amazing Flick, which was about a short film titled Scenes From the Suburbs. Well that short film, directed by Spike Jonze and based on the motifs of Arcade Fire’s Suburbs album (and co-written by Jonze and Arcade Fire’s Win and Will Butler), is now […]

The Swiss luxury watch brand Romain Jerome collaborates with Taito Corporation — the company that brought you Space Invaders — to present two limited edition watches paying tribute to the seminal arcade game released in the late 1970s. The Romain Jerome brand was born by the inspiration to pay “tribute to iconic legends of the […]

As if a home arcade system wasn’t already 200 kinds of awesome (200 being the number of games being available on the Octane 120 Pro), well, this one lets you hit the road in beer goggles too. That’s right officer, this vehicle is built to house a barrel and a half of sweet keg goodness, […]

For their Autumn Winter 2011 collection Passarella Death Squad have just released a new 3-pack collection of retro arcade-inspired tshirts. Merging the classic 1980s 8-bit games with Passarella’s always sexy bevy of undressed women, the three new tshirts (How high can you get?, Sidestepper, The cave of monsters) are all made in London out of […]

When Spike Jonze first directed Arcade Fire’s “Suburbs” video, the idea was that the piece would play as a sort of “trailer” for an upcoming short film which would expand on tropes touched on in the music video. Well now these ideas have begun to expand and evolve, and the collaboration has put out this […]

Does anyone even remember Arkanoid? I sure do. Buy one of these, invite me over, and watch me annihilate you. I’ll bring  a 12 pack of Schlitz just to make you feel better, that way we can truly enjoy these modern revisions of the classic arcade game table. Who needs a new end table made […]

When you combine two creative powerhouses like Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze you basically can’t go wrong. And such is the case with the video for the title track off Arcade Fire’s Suburbs album. Directed by Mr. Jonze, the clip was shot in Austin and is a poignant  6-minute mini exploration into the shittiest era […]