We gave away tickets to EA and Kingsize’s Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Tour when it hit Austin, and had a blast at the event. Not only was past LIAS feature Dan Black performing, but we’re kind of attached to good times. What can I say, we’re suckers for video games and open bar. Finally […]


The time we’ve been talking about is almost here, the Los Angeles stop of the Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Tour is coming 2 Tuesdays from now, November 16th. We’ve previewed several of the previous events (check out San Francisco, Austin and Miami), but the one we’re most excited about is at hand. Lost In […]


The festival of vehicular iniquity that is the Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Tour is about to hit its 6th and second-to-last stop, Miami. Previous events have been a blast (check out the San Francisco and Austin previews), but there are few cities in the US more primed for a good night out, and seeing […]


6 Oct
Recap of San Fran event, plus ticket giveaway for 5th tour stop

We previewed Need For Speed’s San Francisco party a couple weeks back and gave away tickets, and now the 5th installment of the tour hits Austin, Texas tomorrow night (Thursday, October 7th). The San Francisco party featured Mix Master Mike who needless to say killed it, which is pretty much standard for the enigmatic Skratch […]


13 Sep
Packing tape for the nerd mover

There seems to be no shortage of products appropriating the Space Invader iconography. Although some are amazing, like that Space Invader couch, some seem like cheap ways of making you pay more for the same product. You could say the same for this Space Invader packing tape, but personally I kind of dig it, simply […]


8 Sep
Singaporean aritist GaenKoh's "Tat-ris" couch

I guess there’s some unspoken video-games-as-furniture zeitgeist going on in the world, what with industrial designer GaenKoh‘s incredibly Tetris-like ”tat-ris” furniture seeing the light only weeks after that famed Space Invader couch. The Singaporean designer created this piece of interactive modular seating after seeing kids at play, and how they couldn’t sit down for more […]


With the exception of Christopher Nolan’s rebooted Batman franchise, Marvel has consistently kicked the everliving shit out of DC’s comic universe in film format. The Bryan Singer X-Men (1 & 2, not that Brett Ratner abomination) and Ironman alone slay the best of what DC’s managed to come out with, and that doesn’t even count […]


1 Jul
Russians pit severely dated video game characters in death duel

On the same vein as the Mario Vs. Pacman animation, we present you with Tetris Vs. Contra. Not much else to say…