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Harley Quinn's Revenge Is Batman: Arkham City's Bad New Ending I never liked group projects as an undergrad, and that was just for boring things like presentations — the idea of having my graduate thesis dependent on a whole team of (interdisciplinary) people besides my dissertation committee makes my blood run cold. Matt Korba has an interesting postmortem of his The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, intended to be his graduate thesis for an MFA in Interactive Media Department at USC. Beyond issues that usually crop up in postmortems, Korba takes a look at some of the challenges that come with designing in an academic context:
According to Douglas Wilson, we’re a rather unenlightened bunch: mass histrionics from the ‘Church of Gamers,’ as he describes it, are shooting the industry/people who play video games in the proverbial foot. Of course, he’s picking out the worst examples (the militantly defensive) to cry for greater participation, less exclusivity, more political consciousness (beyond media issues), less misogyny …. Ouch. While we’re all blindly worshipping at the altar of gaming, we’re missing out on opportunities to expand:
Ah, the Guinness Book of World Records. In the 1980s game craze, I remember they started accepting video game submissions, so I rolled the score on Defender on the Atari 2600 (1 million points), snapped a photo and sent it in, either to Guinness or somewhere else. No one called, no one wrote. Glory delayed is glory denied.
Perhaps no longer. You can grab an official record this coming Thursday if you live in, or can get to, Brooklyn, N.Y. — and have mad skills in one of five classic arcade games. Guinness World Records is hosting a competition to coincide with the release of its inagural Gamers’ Edition.
Whoops. Apparently this is going on right now. (Or 11:15 CDT, which is … I dunno what it is in Crecente Mountain Time.) Four guys playing College Hoops 2K8 with the real Final Four teams are tipping off, live on stage, in San Antonio, in the third annual Pontiac Virtual NCAA Final Four. Winner gets top bragging rights. And a car.
March 17, my Xbox 360 finally showed the Red Ring of Death. March 18, Brian Crecente offered me this job. It was kinda zen, as one door closes, another opens.
My name’s Owen Good, I live in Silicon Valley and I’m one of the new weekend editors. As you may have read I worked with Brian on the night shift at our old gig, the Rocky Mountain News. Ordinarily, I’d now throw in a hard-bitten newspaper anecdote with a lot of swear words, but this is Kotaku, not The Wire.
Now, the big elephant in the room is that a lot of you commenters wanted this gig and the fact I once worked with Brian adds a hairy gorilla to the elephant. Everyone hates nepotism except for the nepot. So I realise my obligation to earn my stay here.
Instead, I’ll just bribe you.
