“Monster Manual” by Mixel Pixel (song) and Dan Meth (video)

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Friday the 13th marks the release of ARGH: Augmented Reality Ghost Hunter, a cool new augmented reality game for the iPhone that lets you hunt for ghosts in the real world using special “Ghost Goggles” that allow you to see into the ethereal plane.

Ghosts actually exist in specific locations everywhere. Some only inhabit certain locations and others show only during certain times.

Using Augmented Reality technology, ARGH determines where you are and where you’re facing, and shows you what ghosts exist around you.

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Sean McNally created his resume in the form of a Dungeons & Dragons player character sheet. He’s chaotic good, level 15 artist and level 7 animator.

Here’s a larger version of Sean’s resume.

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Madrid based illustrator and comic artist Carla Berrocal created an awesome 8-Bit Wedding Invitation for one of her clients that was inspired by 1980’s Atari games.

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Bioshock was is one of my favorite video games in recent years and I’m really looking forward to the sequel Bioshock 2, scheduled for release on February 9, 2010. 2K Games has a couple of new game trailers “Capture a Sister” and “Siren Alley”.

Here’s a BioShock 2 Preview from IGN.

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Playtime Antiboredom Society and SF0 present Journey to the End of the Night in San Francisco starting at 7pm on Halloween night, Saturday, October 31st.

Journey to the End of the Night is a free street game across the haunted cityscape of San Francisco this Halloween. Players sporting orange ribbons will try to make it through six checkpoints on foot or by public transportation, while avoiding being caught by chasers. Those who survive will be praised and feted at the end. Those who fall will become chasers themselves, rising in undeath to pursue their former friends and allies. It works like a race or derive that keeps breaking out into games of tag or hide and seek.

The game begins on Saturday, October 31st, at 7:00 PM on Steuart St between Market and Mission (across the street from the Ferry Building). No bicycles, no skates, no cars, no taxis. You may only travel on foot or by public transportation. Wear comfortable shoes, and bring water.

Prizes will be awarded for top finishers, best chasers and best costume.

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Over the weekend Jonathan Moore shot some photos of a Dungeons & Dragons game organized by King of RPGs that was taking place on Market Street in San Francisco near the chess players.

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The 3rd annual Pacific Pinball Expo takes place this weekend, October 2-4 at the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael. PPE is the world’s largest pinball show, featuring close to 400 playable machines ranging from 1930’s to 2000’s. Proceeds from the event help support the Pacific Pinball Museum which is currently operating out of the Lucky JuJu pinball arcade in Alameda.

The PPE is not just about playing pinball; it’s about learning, too, with placards highlighting each machine’s historical and cultural significance. The PPE also features exhibits and seminars on the History, Science, Physics, and Art of pinball…including seminars on how to become a pinball wizard!

Here are some highlights from Pacific Pinball Expo 2008.

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The Brazillian band Gameboys doing an awesome cover of the Super Mario Bros. theme song.

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We’re absolutely sure that with the aid of super-futuristic technology that we know is being invented right now, sex in the future will be more amazing than our Cylon-Cylon (plus Replicant, plus Cameron/T9) fantasies could imagine. I mean, I just get stuck thinking of two Summer Glau’s kissing. But until then, and barring Chinese manufacturing of a cheap entry-level priced Peep Show Holodeck (patent pending), we have the annual international sex and technology festival Arse Elektronika.

This year’s theme “Of Intercourse and Intracourse” promises to be a buffet of futuristic and fantastic sexual innovations, artistic explorations, and virtual hallucinations of the sci-fi-meets-pr0n kind. The thing is, it’s in just two weeks and with poeple flying in from all over the world to participate, there are a lot of talks and happenings to choose from. Starting October 1 to the 4th, events will be at various San Francisco locations including Roxie Theater, Center for Sex and Culture, Noisebridge, Femina Potens Gallery, and PariSoMa.

Tickets to each of the three-day events are here at Brown Paper Tickets. The main site with the full schedule is here.

Don’t have time to sift the schedule to find out where to see the hot robot sex action? Here are recommended highlights:

* Thursday, October 1 is the opening night, and we’re excited to see that Annalee Newitz will be speaking at the opening gala. It officially starts at 6pm with an explicit film festival at the Roxie Theater in the Mission, and is followed by in-theater opening presentations that, if you’ve seen the Arse opening (and award ceremony) before, you’ll know they’re anything but dry. Also, not on the schedule is a hardware-hacked Atari Joydick showdown: male vs. female gaming parts. We’re sure this will be pretty outrageous.

* Friday, October 2 talks start at the Center for Sex and Culture at 8pm, but the one we won’t be missing is Johannes Grenzfurthner’s “Dating Yog-Sothoth and Fucking a Zombie.” If you’ve seen his presentations, you know he’s — rather unpredictable. The talk’s description is only, “Bizarre Sci-Fi and Fantasy in Graphic Novels. No spoilers.” Enough said.

* Saturday, October 3 is the Big Fat Future Sex Day, with talks going from 11:30am to 9pm at ParisSoMa, then a not-to-be-missed (though limited capacity) evening gala at frisky erotic art gallery Femina Potens, starting at 10pm. Daytime talk highlights include “Sex Without Meat: How Singularitarians View Sex” by R.U. Sirius, “Will You Still Love Me Like This In The Year 2300?” by Annalee Newitz, and “Biometrics in the Bedroom” by Kyle Machulis (AKA qDot). The nighttime future sex fiesta includes a bizarre installation of DIY porn tools, plus a six-piece musical act that fits the theme while putting the flesh into all this hypothetical sex. This is the party, replicants.

* Sunday October 4 is the hackfest: at hacker space Noisebridge, sex hackers will demo how to create a Joydick (and other sex/gaming hybrids), you can learn how to make your own ’steampunk’ vibrator from the expert, the Thrillhammer’s Allen Stein will show you genital-based haptic devices and much more.

We’ll see you there. Just don’t get your dangly bits too close to the moving parts. Unless that’s your fetish.

photos by Scott Beale

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A crew of 36 Freeboard skaters created a life size game of Tetris in neon on a San Francisco hill. Music is a E*Rock remix of “You Can Not Believe It” by Copy.

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Bungie has a really cool live action trailer for Halo 3: ODST which was released this week. Could this be a glimpse of what long delayed Halo film might actually look like?

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Jones Soda is producing a limited series of Dungeons & Dragons Spellcasting Soda.

Now quick, roll a d20 to save vs. thirst.

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“A Simple Plan”, an awesome Threadless t-shirt design by Neil Gregory.

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“This Game Sucks”, a Threadless t-shirt design by David Creighton-Pester.

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Merlin Mann reminds us of the Tii-Shirt, an awesome Wii Remote (”Wiimote”) exploded view t-shirt that Chris Glass designed for Wire&Twine back in 2007.

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Here’s raw video shot by KGO ABC 7 of San Francisco’s famously crooked Lombard Street in San Francisco being converted into a life-size version of the children’s board game Candyland, in honor of Candyland’s 60th anniversary.

photos by Steve Rhodes

SFist has been posting photos of Lombard Street being converted into Candyland, like this series of photos from Steve Rhodes.

Here’s more Lombard Street Candyland video by David Newman.

photos by BerDerp

BerDerp has been shooting a bunch of great Candyland photos.

UPDATE: Here’s more Candyland coverage from SFAppeal.

Thanks to Felix for the tip about the video!

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SF Appeal is reporting that San Francisco’s famously crooked Lombard Street is going to be transformed into a gigantic version of the children’s game Candyland this Wednesday, August 19th, in honor of the game’s 60th anniversary.

UPDATE 1: SFist has more coverage of Candyland game as it unfolds.

UPDATE 2: Video of Candyland on Lombard Street shot from the air.

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DataSage reviews the “Home Improvement” video game for Super Nintendo (SNES).

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Mike Hales and Doctor Popular created a really cool NES game cartridge themed flyer for the upcoming 8bitSF showcase featuring the Chiptune punk band Anamanaguchi which is taking place at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco on Sunday, August 30th.

photos by Doctor Popular

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