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You Are Being Watched By Alien Phalanx Monsters

A video-game creature in London warns us that spy cameras are everywhere in public spaces. It's almost as if the proliferation of CCTV cameras were the real "Space Invaders," intruding into our lives whenever we go outside and subjecting us to intense scrutiny that might as well be a rain of laser blasts. The Space Invaders graffiti, using tiles to simulate 8-bit video game pixels, has been a constant in London since 1999, but it seems to have started featuring the CCTV warning only recently. Click through for a couple more images. More »

11:40 AM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
642 views, 6 comments

Latest by SomnambulantHobbit: If this were in Chicago, there would be panic that the terrorists did it. more »

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You Can Only Delay, Never Stop, The Space Invaders

It's been 30 years since Space Invaders started, but the game is making a huge comeback. This year we'll see both Space Invaders Extreme for the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, as well as Space Invaders Get Even on the Wii, which lets you take control of the invading aliens and have them smash up cities. Like a line of aliens marching inexorably downward, the game continues to make its impact on our culture. But how much do you know about these pixellated extraterrestrials who are intent on wiping us out? Learn all the facts, and see a gallery — including more screens from the new Wii version — after the jump. More »

11:40 AM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Kevin Kelly
4,716 views, 12 comments

Latest by Chrysla: I loved playing space armada on our intellivision game system. (It was and still is far better than atari any day!) My brother is 6 1/2 years older than me, and I remember him crying when I, his baby sister, more »