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Infinite Bits: Miami’s First Video Game Convention
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Next weekend in Miami you can enjoy live music, tournaments, world record competitions, special guests, a costume contest and a video game museum at Infinite Bits, South Florida’s “first major video game convention”. More »
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Pac-Man World Record Broken
1:40AM Mike Fahey | The official Pac-Man world record has become a little less attainable, as the sixth person in history to achieve a perfect score in Namco’s arcade classic is also the fastest to date. More »
Culture
Billy Mitchell Denies And Denounces Taunting Tweets
4:00AM Owen Good | Some unsportsmanlike tweets attributed to Billy Mitchell are 100 percent fake, says the Donkey Kong world record holder. More »
Culture
Iowa Town To Announce Plans For Game Hall Of Fame
2:40AM Owen Good | Billy Mitchell, the world record holder in Donkey Kong and one of gaming’s original stars, will be in Ottumwa, Iowa today as the city announces its intention to create a video games hall of fame. More »
The League of Legendary Gamers Fight Hunger At E For All
4:00AM Mike Fahey | By their powers combined, they are Captain Sitting Around In A Chair! Five of the country’s “legendary” names in gaming are converging on the E for All Expo in the name of ending hunger, once and for a little while! Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, Billy Mitchell, Justin Wong, Todd Rogers and TriForce will be taking on all comers at E for All next weekend, with the price of admission being one perishable food item to be donated to the Los Angeles Food Bank for the upcoming holiday season. Each gamer is playing a specific game – FatalONEty has Doom 4, Billy “Hot Sauce” Mitchell on Donkey Kong, Justin Wong is rocking Marvel VS. Capcom 2, Todd Rogers will be on Gorf (hell yeah), and finally TriForce takes it tiny with Tetris DS. It’s actually a pretty sweet thing they’re doing here, so if you’re planning on attending E For All, bring along some canned food, and not the generic crap. It’s for the holidays, dammit. Hit the jump for more info. More »Billy Mitchell Manages to Make Himself Look Like an Even Bigger Arse
5:30AM Brian Crecente | We’ve covered Donkey-Kong perfectionist documentary The King of Kong in painful detail, talking about Billy Mitchell’s trash talking, the making of the movie, we’ve even had top-notch movie critic review The King of Kong. But G4 managed to dig deeper, to delve into the very psychie of Mitchell, unearthing an even bigger arse than the one seen on the big screen. It’s too bad they didn’t get around to asking the tough questions, question like: Where did you get that tie? Does your thumb ever get tired? Do you rent out the space under the front of your hair? Check out the full airing of Mitchell’s philosophy on Friday at 9 p.m. More »K2: Billy Mitchell As A Hunter Killer Robot
7:00AM Mike Fahey | If you thought The King of Kong was story of a desperate man out to protect his record, wait until you get a load of K2: The King, The Kong, and the Ugly, a G4 original production. Sure it’s a bit stupid, childish, hokey, and inane. Most of the time it isn’t even particularly funny. What strikes me is how terrifying the thought of being chased around by Billy Mitchell with futuristic weapons actually is. I would be terrified, but practical, cutting off my own hands so the record could never come to pass. When a maniacal gaming hot sauce maker is ready to gun you down you have to think on your toes, people. More »
Major General Hammond Invokes Pac-Man
3:20AM Mike Fahey | U.S. Major General Jeffery Hammond, delivering a press briefing on the progress of the 4th Infantry’s efforts in Iraq, revealed the inspiration behind their current strategy for dealing with Al Qaeda operatives and Shiite extremists. “I believe they have been degraded, we continue to PacMan, like the video game, away at their efforts, at their different levels,” Major General Hammond said. While it’s nice to see a video game reference made by high-ranking military officers, I have to wonder exactly what this means. I get this bizarre mental image of an overhead view of the streets of Baghdad, fruit carts spilling into the streets and the military struggling to pick up the produce for extra points. Are we the ghosts, or are we Pac-Man himself? Are power pellets sanctioned under the Geneva Conventions? With so many questions, one thing remains quite clear – we need to air drop Billy Mitchell into the war zone immediately, hot sauce and all. More »
Arcade Gaming Making A Comeback
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | I. Love. Arcades. Seems I’m not alone! Forbes has a short piece about the retro arcade revival going on in the States. While some Americans are content to play retro titles on emulators and whatnot, there is a growing number of gamers who want a realer experience. And with the US arcade scene limping along, some are getting their gaming fix by purchasing retro game cabinets for home use. Says Rick Kirby of coin-op supplier Betson Enterprise: The last few years, we’ve seen an all-time high in sales of machines for home use… The buyers of these machines are families, husbands and wives who grew up playing the games in the arcades and today want them for their game rooms. Of course, there are places in the States like Brooklyn’s Barcade, which do a lovely job of preserving these cabinets. Shame there aren’t more places like Barcade. Arcade Games Make A Comeback [Forbes via Arcade Renaissance] [Pic] More »
