http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png http://kotaku.com/tag/uwink http://kotaku.com/tag/uwink

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell recently talked to GameDaily about his uWink business, a growing chain of restaurants that feature touch terminals on every table - not only do they let users order their food that way, but they can also play games together. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5015887&view=rss&microfeed=true

Atari founder and industry forbear Nolan Bushnell discussed his "five-year ADD" during Wedbush Morgan's 6th annual management access conference, where he described his latest passions and shared thoughts on the industry's future. "Every five years, I've got to do something a little different," he said. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5010506&view=rss&microfeed=true

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell's latest restaurant uWink opened yesterday in Woodland Hills, California. Bushnell's previous restaurant Chuck E. Cheese was centered around arcade games, pizza and animatronic animals. His latest is geared more towards casual games and booze. There's food, too, but the key here is booze. The restaurant has a nice big bar, stocked with various types of alcohol. The drink menu comes via touch screen, so go ahead and order that 11th Tom Collins. You'll get no sass from the touch screen! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=208033&view=rss&microfeed=true

Got plans for October 16th? Atari and Chuck E. Cheese founder Nolan Bushnell is opening his first uWink video game diner in Woodland Hills, California. Here's how it works: Customers order food or drinks via touch-screens built into their tables. The computers even make cocktail recommendations based on a personality quiz. And customers can pay to play casual video games while they eat or wait for their food. Sound kinda cool, but totally missing an animatronic band. Brian Ashcraft More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=207279&view=rss&microfeed=true

Atari founder and Gaming's Grandfather, Nolan Bushnell, has found a location for the first uWink Bistro. At the techy restaurant, food and drinks will be ordered via touch screen and games played at each table. The fare will include pizza, burgers and shakes. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=153132&view=rss&microfeed=true

In an interview with Wired, Pong designer Nolan Bushnell talks about his new restaurant venture, his next-gen Chuck E. Cheese, uWink, and a new game — he's calling it Ping. Bushnell wants to bring games back "to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact." He maintains that Pong is "responsible for hundreds, maybe thousands of marriages." Bushnell's desire for games to become social facilitators seems noble, but he ignores the fact that other game types can be facilitators instead, suggesting that consumers need to be in a place like uWink or an arcade for said social interactions. Kind of flies in the face of digital communities like Xbox Live and most MMOs, doesn't it? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=129470&view=rss&microfeed=true