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02/14/13 9:00am

QNYC Event Highlight: IndieCade East Video Game Festival

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It’s known as the Sundance of its industry, and this year it commemorates the video game’s 50th birthday. On February 15-17, the Museum of the Moving Image will host IndieCade East, the greatest show on earth for independent gamers. Considered appropriate for ages eight and up, this extravaganza features 20 playable games — from digital to physical, multiplayer to single player, active to meditative, playful to serious –drawn from IndieCade’s October 2012 festival competition. Also scheduled are presentations from designers, academics and journalists including Kris Piotrowski (Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP) and Doug Wilson (Johann Sebastien Joust), seminars and workshops for budding game makers led by industry experts, an arcade tournament and a festival-long game jam. And if that’s not enough, the museum will offer an exhibit on the video game’s first half century, Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off, on view through March 3.

IndieCade East
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue, Astoria
Friday, February 15, to Sunday, February 17
10am – 6pm | $80 for full festival pass
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Evening Edition
12/17/12 3:45pm

The Thirsty Koala menu offerings and more in the QNYC Evening Edition for Monday December 17, 2012

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Thirsty Koala = yum

Over the weekend, we joined up with some of our favorite bloggers and participated in a tasting of some of the menu items from The Thirsty Koala, a new Australian-inspired restaurant opening up on Ditmars in Astoria. The meal did not disappoint. From lamb lollies, to kakadu crostis (kakadu is an Australian plum), to Tim Tam Tiramisu, the food was a delight. Vegans, vegetarians, omnivores, and even gluten-free folks will find something to eat here. They hope to open by end of week, so keep an eye out!

We love this poster from the Queens Tech Meetup

This is a very cool design for the poster announcing the next Queens Tech Meetup, which is happening this Wednesday, December 19 at 6:30pm in LIC.

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Image source: Queens Tech

Spacewar! Video games at MOMI

This weekend the Museum of the Moving Image opened their exhibit, Spacewar! This year is the 50th anniversary of the first video game (if you can believe it!), so they have put together a number of games – handheld, arcade, and platform – that can be considered the spawn of Spacewar!. It’s upstairs on the third floor. Get your fill of games like Defender, Space Invaders, and Portal, as well as the original Spacewar! With admission to the Museum you get four tokens to be used with the arcade games. Have fun and enjoy the rush of nostalgia.

The issues of “incentives” for prospective buyers of real estate in NYC

Our friend Eric Benaim of Modern Spaces was interviewed as part of this NY Times article about incentives as part of the sale of property in NYC. He says, “they can get buyers across the finish line.” He is using incentives to complete sales at both L-Haus – buyers receive a credit equal to 6 percent of the unit’s cost - and Murano – buyers receive a 5 percent check from the development team. Though during the strong sales months of September and October, they suspend these incentive programs. It’s interesting stuff, with a sort of “behind-the-scenes” look at selling real estate in our local market.

We put together some “best of Queens” in response to USA Today’s “bests” of the borough

We took a look at the handy guide to the “Best of Queens” that was put together by USA Today, and we found ourselves wanting more selections that reflected the borough as a whole. So we put our own list together. From Danny Brown in Forest Hills, to Bowne Park in Flushing, to SITE in Astoria, we hope you are inspired to discover and/or explore Queens as a result!

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Arts and Culture
Astoria
12/15/12 1:00pm

Spacewar! at the Museum of the Moving Image – video games galore, and you can play them

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The scene as you ascend the stairs and enter the exhibit

Today is the first day of the new exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Image called Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off. We had a chance to check out the exhibit – and play a bunch of the video games – and thought it was all pretty dang cool. Here’s what it’s all about:

Spacewar! Video Games Blast Off looks at the first 50 years of video games through the lens of Spacewar!, the first digital video game, its development, and the culture from which it sprang. In addition to a model of the original PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) computer running a playable simulation of Spacewar!, the exhibition presents 20 playable video games ranging in platform (arcade, console, handheld, PC), genre (shooters, platformers, action, arcade) and developer (commercial, independent, experimental). From Missile Command to Halo 4, and from Star Fox to Portal, the exhibition draws connections and contrasts between these games and Spacewar!, signaling the latter’s central place in the development of video games as a cultural form.

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