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Gaming movie magic with ‘Wreck-It Ralph’

December 23, 2018 at 12:07 p.m.

"Wreck-It Ralph," Disney's arcade-centric animated movie that earned $49.1 million over the weekend, wins a lot of laughs with countless jokes referencing classic video games. Some of the characters and...

"Mad Made" author Joel Stein, shown in New York City, says Chicago is high on his list of manly cities.

How manly is Chicago? We ask humorist Joel Stein

December 23, 2018 at 12:24 p.m.

Humorist and Time magazine columnist Joel Stein freaked out several years ago when he found out that his pregnant wife was having a boy. A self-proclaimed wuss, Stein decided to...

Chicago game developers try for Kickstarter boost

December 21, 2018 at 11:48 a.m.

Larry Griffin broke all kinds of unwritten rules about creating a video game development studio when he founded Cosmosaur. The recent Columbia College graduate and three former classmates started the...

When is it self-defense?

December 23, 2018 at 1:49 p.m.

The night after she managed to scare off an intruder who had broken into her apartment and snuck into her bedroom, Sarah Braunstein slept with a hammer under her pillow...

The stories behind 6 Chicago honorary streets

December 23, 2018 at 3:27 p.m.

Signs, signs everywhere signs. That's especially true in the Chicago, where almost 1,500 honorary signs dot the city's streets. But behind the multitude of names engraved in the brown signs...

Chicago’s schizo streets

December 23, 2018 at 3:26 p.m.

Chances are that if you tell someone you'll meet them at the corner of Mike Ditka Way or Hugh Hefner Way, you're bound to get some puzzled looks. But those...

Chicago’s Iron Galaxy Studios debuts 1st original game, ‘Wreckateer’

December 23, 2018 at 3:49 p.m.

Kurt Tillmanns takes two steps backward and throws his hands in the air while his cartoonish onscreen avatar corresponds by shooting a cannonball smack dab into a medieval castle—leaving a...

Chicago ‘Watch:’ Chi-Town stars in video game ‘Watch Dogs’

December 23, 2018 at 5:03 p.m.

The star of the most anticipated video game of 2013 isn't Super Mario, Lara Croft or Nathan Drake. It's not a person at all, but a place.Give up?Chicago edged out...

Neighborhood arcades take Chicago gamers back to the future

December 23, 2018 at 5:03 p.m.

Ms. Pac-Man suffers an untimely death at the hands of a blue-clad ghost, but A.J. Matthews doesn't seem too upset by his failure to navigate the pellet-filled maze without smacking...

Chicago ‘Watch:’ Chi-Town stars in video game ‘Watch Dogs’

November 3, 2021 at 2:58 p.m.

The star of the most anticipated video game of 2013 isn't Super Mario, Lara Croft or Nathan Drake. It's not a person at all, but a place.Give up?Chicago edged out...

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