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Last night I checked out London's first pervasive games festival at the ICA. Was a great and unsual atmosphere that saw strangers in London (shock horror) actually talking to each other, with loads of games encouraged ranging from pen and paper recreations to playing tag with people outside in the hope of challenging them to a rock-paper-scissor duel. On guard!

Pervasive gaming aims to push the concept of computer games replicating real life to stage live games that actually are reality. The sandpit event featured mostly game formats created by the particpants, like paparazzi where "celebs" had to hide from the "paps".

All in all was a right bunch of coconuts characters and even if your not games obsessed like I am would definitely reccomend hitting the next event in March at the Barbican. Below are the mexican thumb wrestle contestants