A Portland Tech Company’s Weird New Video Game Has Become a Viral Sensation

Since its release two weeks ago, “Untitled Goose Game” has earned celeb endorsements from Chrissy Teigen and Blink-182 and inspired an endless stream of memes, artwork and mash-up videos based on its long-necked lead.

Retro Game Bar Feels like Home—Specifically, the Home of That One Friend Who Had Every Video Game System in Existence

So yeah, the concept of Retro Game Bar—the name is actually a sly reference to “RGB,” or “red, green, blue,” the analog video signal built into old-school game cartridges—isn’t exactly novel. It does, however, tweak the execution.

Portland Metal Band Red Fang Collaborated With Wieden + Kennedy To Create a Mobile Game Featuring Zombies and a Bearded Robot Skull

Inspired by 16-bit arcade games from the 90s, Red Fang: Headbang is a video game and music video for the band’s single “Antidote.” In the game, players navigate a Red Fang concert plagued by zombies with exploding heads, help some punks kick a car into pieces and fight comedian Brian Posehn in the form of a bearded robot skull that rises from the pit of hell.

Art Exhibit “Utopia Without You” Attempts to Escape a Hostile World Using Balls of Trash and Video Games

Each piece in Utopia Without You is a synecdoche of a disheveled gamer’s bedroom—the rock of trash that is B-612, a hand-painted miniature elf displayed on a wooden table, a flat-screen TV playing a video game that Nikolai programmed, and Rich Inner Life, a gurgling fish tank filled with mineral oil and the electronic circuit that controls the video game. With its technological guts resting in goopy fluid, Rich Inner Life almost looks like a cyborg animal.

Ground Kontrol Beercade Has a Brand New Expansion—Now With More Liquor

The original space’s roller-rink drabness has been upgraded with a shiny, retro sci-fi-sleek bar

Kill Your Friday Afternoon By Playing Ms. Pacman on the Streets of Portland

Now available through Google Maps, plow through the streets of Portland as Ms. Pacman and eat some ghosts.

Ghost Recon: Wildlands Review

Now we have Ghost Recon: Wildlands, a title that has some of these issues but is opened up enough as to offer something new—just so long as you bring some friends along for the ride.

David Ortiz Was in Charge of Iconic Game Franchise Madden NFL—And Now He's Taking Sports into Virtual Reality