More than 2,000 of us came out to kickoff Philly Tech Week Presented by AT&T with the Arcade at the Oval, our big, outdoor festival that featured 10 food trucks, a Yards beer garden, live music, more than a dozen local video game companies and other interactive local technologies to play and, oh, yeah, the world’s largest videogame, Cira Centre Tetris.
As you might expect, the night and Tetris, as envisioned by Drexel University’s Dr. Frank Lee to celebrate the iconic game’s 30th anniversary, garnered lots of widespread media attention for the Philadelphia technology community. Yes, we all like showing off that we live in a place that celebrates innovation.
We thought we’d give you a tidy recap of all the news coverage we saw of this specific event — a wrap of broader Philly Tech Week attention to come next week. Shout out to Britt Faulstick of Drexel for helping us combine this list.
National media
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USA Today (4/6)
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Reuters (4/6)
- The Dish by Andrew Sullivan
- Ars Technica
- U.S. News & World Report
- San Francisco Chronicle
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Associated Press (story, video) (4/6) — Picked up by more than 1,000 outlets including the following
- ABC News.com
- NBC News.com
- CBS News.com
- Polygon (3/12)
- VentureBeat (3/12)
- Picked up by Business Insider
- Engadget (3/12)
- Wired (UK) (3/12)
- The Register (3/12)
- PC Mag (3/12)
- Picked up by ecoustics
- Kill screen (3/13)
- Polygon (4/5)
- Digital Trends (4/6)
- The Wire (4/6)
- Mashable (4/7)
- BuzzFeed (4/7)
- VentureBeat (4/7)
- Picked up by PCMag
- Polygon (4/7)
- ArsTechnica (4/7)
- Vice (4/7)
- TechSpot (4/7)
- Ubergizmo (4/7)
- SlashGear (4/7)
- PC Mag (4/7)
- Engadget (4/7)
- TechCrunch (4/7)
- CNet (4/7)
- Kotaku (4/7)
- Hot Hardware 4/7)
- Mother Nature Network (4/7)
- The Age (4/7)
- ModVive (4/7)
- MSN News
- U.S. News & World Report
- Huffington Post
- Salon.com
- MSN Now
- Boston.com
- The Christian Science Monitor
- New York Post
- Miami Herald
- Voice of America
- Dallas Morning News
- Video by Get Kinetic
National broadcast
- Good Morning America
- FOXNews “America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer/Martha MacCallum”
- Fox and Friends
- CBS Evening News
- Al Jazeera America
- Bloomberg News
- Weather Channel “Wake Up With Al”
- Weather Channel “AMHQ”
- Headline News “Morning Express with Robin Meade”
- Headline News “Weekend Express”
- CNN (via KPLC-TV)
International media
- Next Gamer (Germany) (4/4)
- BBC News (4/6)
- International Business Times (4/7)
- Huffington Post (UK) (4/6)
- Irish Independent (4/6)
- BGR India (4/6)
- Yahoo! (Greece) (4/7)
- Yahoo! News Romania (4/6)
- Latin Post (4/6)
- Spiegel Online (Germany) (4/6)
- Der Standard (Austria) (4/6)
- C|Net (Japan) 4/7)
- Gizmodo (Italy) (4/7)
- GameSurf (Italy) (4/7)
- Sky News (UK) 4/6)
- New York Times (blog, video) (4/6)
- Picked up by 13 outlets in France, including L’Expansion, Gizmodo(Fr), Euronews, L’essentiel, FranceTv, L’Huffington Post, and 7sur7
- Daily Mail (4/6)
- The Telegraph (UK) (4/6)
- The Independent (UK) 4/6)
- Metro (UK) (4/6)
- Montreal Gazette (4/6)
- New Zealand Herald (4/6)
- 3News New Zealand (4/6)
- CCTV (China) (4/6)
- Canadian Business (4/6)
- The Japan Times (4/6)
- EuroNews (Hungarian) (4/6)
- La Voix Du Nord (France) 4/7)
- Diario El Pias (Spain) (4/7)
- El Nacional (Chile) (4/7)
- Giornalettismo (Italy) (4/7)
- TicinOnline (Italy) (4/6)
- La Repubblica (Italy) (4/7)
- Avisen (Denmark) (4/6)
Philadelphia coverage
- The Philadelphia Inquirer (3/12)
- Philadelphia Magazine blog (3/12)
- The Philadelphia Business Journal (3/12)
- Picked up by NBCPhiladelphia.com
- CBS Philly (3/12)
- WHYY/Newsworks (3/12)
- Philebrity (3/12)
- Metro (Philadelphia) (3/13)
- Philly.com (3/31)
- Philadelphia Inquirer (4/2)
- Picked up by Bloomberg Businessweek
- WTXF-TV (FOX Philadelphia) (4/4)
- Uwishunu.com (4/4)
- Al Dia (4/6)
- WCAU-TV (NBC-Philadelphia) (4/4)
- Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia (4/4)
- Philadelphia Weekly (4/4)
- WHYY/Newsworks.org (4/5)
- WKYW-TV (CBS-Philadelphia) (4/6)
- WTXF-TV (Fox-Philadelphia) (4/6)
- WPVI-TV (ABC-Philadelphia) “Action News” (4/6)
- 6ABC
- CBS3
- NBC Philadelphia.com (4/4)
- CBS Philly (4/5)
- Philly.com (4/6)
- Philly Post GIFs
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