Week in Gaming: #Hashbombs, #Dark Knights and #zombie #bikinis

By Kate Gray

Twitter is like a catchy song. At first, you hate it. Why does everyone like this? It’s awful, it’s full of people complaining and being aggressive and taking photos of their cats and food and themselves.

Then, you start to get drawn in by its charms. You tentatively set up an account. You tweet a couple of jokes you thought of that morning. But by then, you’re in for good. You think about it all day. You hashtag things unironically. You know the difference between muting and blocking and you use both freely. It’s too late for you.

#IDARB is here to save you. As you can probably guess from the hashtaggy title, #IDARB is a game that’s fully integrated with Twitter. It plays like a cross between basketball, Super Smash Bros and hockey, with four-person teams, two goals, one ball and a whole lot of chaos in between. The twist (there’s always a twist) is that anyone can join in with your game by using “Hashbombs”, which are hashtags sent to the #IDARB Twitter account that change the circumstances of the game.

Try #oktoberfest, which fills the arena with beer, or #toasty, which makes human-toast hybrids appear on screen. Maybe you …read more

Source: techradar.com – Gaming