Devastated. Boing Boing's coverage of the coolest thing to replace those irritating car and mobile phone ads that delay the start of a feature film clearly states that MSNBC has only done a deal with US cinemas to bring a giant, motion-sensored, group-movement-controlled, interactive breakout-style game to the deadspace between when you buy your popcorn and the movie begins.
From the article:
The game is Newsbreaker, a simple break-out style game that rewards you for clearing lines by dropping real-time RSS news headlines, but the gameplay is the cool part: a motion sensor in the theater allows the entire audience to control the paddle by swaying in unison from side to side.
Surely this is the antithesis of an ambient game?
Cheer us up on a rainy Wednesday: what do we get that they don't?
