Alan Kwan is an artist, a film-maker, a technologist. And memories are his medium. Early next year, he plans to open the doors to what he describes as a virtual recreation of his mind, allowing everyone to come in and explore the more than year's worth of video and audio captured from a special camera rigged to his glasses. Everything, from the mundane to the titillating, the absurd to the obscene, is scattered throughout a surreal landscape of shimmering black and white houses and walking trees. Bad Trip is Kwan's real-life interpretation of Being John Malkovich, his take on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. But it's also just the beginning. Kwan hopes this "clone" of himself inspires others to join in, to hack his memories, to share and steal video moments to create their own...

Or at least that's the idea behind the burgeoning Digital Out-of-Home Interactive Entertainment Network Association, a collective of movie theaters, amusement parks, arcades and restaurants brought together by their common interest in and use of video games. This week, executives from the group are gathering in Los Angeles to discuss the future of their trade. The meeting of future entertainment includes an "amorphous amalgam" of hybrid technologies and diversions. There will be talks about next-generation arcades, new models of interactivity in movie theaters, how to bring augmented reality experiences to amusement parks and at least one visit to a technology-driven entertainment experience brought to life. "Most people's perception of what out-of-home entertainment is, is an arcade...

Kelli Dunlap wasn't sure she'd make the cut for the scholarship: She had the grades, but worried she wasn't a good enough gamer. "My biggest concern was that I'm not a professional gamer," said Dunlap. "I don't play tournaments." But last week, Dunlap was named one of five gamers awarded $10,000 scholarships based on academic and gaming achievements. The PhD candidate at American School of Professional Psychology says she plans to use the money to support herself during her residency, hopefully continuing her studies into the uses of gaming in therapy. This first ever Twitch and Alienware Scholarship was designed to support the gaming community and help it grow beyond its original boundaries, said Matthew DiPietro, vice president of marketing for video streaming service Twitch. "...

Somewhere between the fist fight in a seedy Tucson bar and the wild midnight ride through Austin with a prostitute and her gun-toting john, Justin Amirkhani had what some might call an epiphany. On the first day of June, a bit more than two weeks before his 24th birthday, Amirkhani packed up his belongings, sublet his Toronto apartment, and set off on what was to be a two-month-long ramble around the United States. The idea for the trip was to travel by Greyhound bus from city to city, visiting video game developers big and small at their studios to talk about the craft of making games. But over the course of two months of backpacking through California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland, and New York, the trip somehow became something more than a journey ping-ponging...

Never count Nintendo out. The more than 120-year-old Japanese company always seems to manage to surprise and delight both fans and naysayers. In 2006, the company managed to extricate itself from last place in the video game arms race with the release of the Wii. The best-selling console bucked common wisdom that held that video game machines evolved like computers, primarily through improved graphics and processing power. Instead, Nintendo focused on changing the way people played games, making it more natural for anyone to pick up a controller and play. The coming generation of game consoles is shaping up to be one dedicated to blurring the lines between video games and the rest of entertainment. Consoles already allow you to view movies, watch TV, browse the internet and...