World of Games posterThe ‘ista may occa­sion­ally come across as a bunch of child-hat­ing yup­pies, but the truth is about 50% of us have kids, and we need to keep them enter­tained these hol­i­days. So we’re gonna take them to Cap­it­al E. Why? Because we want to play the old school arcade games ourselves.

From build­ing mech­an­ic­al mar­vels with Mec­cano to pit­ting your gui­tar skills against the com­puter, the tra­di­tion­al and elec­tron­ic worlds of gam­ing are brought togeth­er in this two week extra­vag­anza. There’ll be Mec­cano mod­els to inspire the young build­er plus work­shops to show you more. Using green screen tech­no­logy see your cre­ations come to life! Make a rock­et and watch it land on the moon, a heli­copter nav­ig­ate Mount Cook, or set your own mod­el anim­al free in the Amazon! Then it’s con­tenders at the ready as you com­pete against friends and fam­ily with XBox, Wii and Play­sta­tion games on the big screen. Try your hand at some older gam­ing formats, com­pete for hon­ours with Kin­ect Sports and dance your socks off at Dance Cent­ral. With plenty for all ages you’re sure to leave inspired and exhausted!

In fact, we might even make a day of it and go see Around the World and Buck Again while we’re there. What are you doing with your kids?