Games For Change opens free registrations for its virtual 2020 festival

For the first time in its 17-year history, the Games For Change Festival will be free to attend. Registration for the event opens today, with the festival itself taking place between July 14th and 16th. Despite being online this year due to the coron...

Netflix is hosting a live comedy festival in Los Angeles this spring

Netflix is obviously big on stand-up comedy, but now it's looking to present comedy IRL. Today, it announced the Netflix Is A Joke Fest, a weeklong comedy festival coming to Los Angeles this spring. It promises over 100 shows with many of the biggest...

Minecraft Festival is coming to Orlando in September

Minecraft's annual event started out as a convention, but flipped to a streaming-only format in 2017 in a bid to maintain the tight-knit atmosphere for an increasingly large audience. It's moving back to that in-person experience, however, and it now...

‘Storm Area 51’ event creator is working on an alien festival

Facebook may have shut down the "Storm Area 51" event that racked up more than two million followers, but the spirit of the meme is going to live on in the form of a festival. Matty Roberts, the creator of the original event, announced that he teamed...

Jessica Alba Speaks at Bits&Pretzels Startup Festival in Munich


After Barack Obama, Munich's Bits&Pretzles Startup Festival adds a big Hollywood star to the speaker line-up. Jessica Alba, who is also a successful entrepreneur with her Honest Company will hold...

Barack Obama Speaks at Munich’s Bits & Pretzels 2019 Startup Conference


It's tradition that speakers at the Bits & Pretzels startup festival wear Bavarian Lederhosen on stage. Not all speakers have committed to that tradition over the years. Let's see if Obama takes...

Childish Gambino will host an immersive Pixel 3 event at Coachella

Childish Gambino teamed up with Google to promote the Pixel's Playground mode earlier this year -- now the collaboration is continuing at Coachella, where the rapper will host a festival experience designed to show off the Pixel 3's Night Sight capab...

Amazon’s Coachella delivery lockers will help you get more sunscreen

The Coachella music festival is known for pampering fans with treats, but they'll now have one of the ultimate creature comforts: online deliveries. Amazon is making multiple Lockers available at Coachella on both weekends (April 12th-14th and April...