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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 »
News
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
Can You Beat These Wii Sports Resort Scores?
6:20AM Mike Fahey | Video game record keeper Twin Galaxies has posted the first official record scores for Wii Sports Resort. Have you got what it takes to oust the champions? More »
Culture
Video Game Hall Of Fame Gains Momentum, Support
1:00AM Owen Good | Barely a month old, the movement to place a video game hall of fame in Ottumwa, Iowa has formed a city-backed committee and is hiring legal services to incorporate itself as a nonprofit venture. 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 »
Culture
Steve Wiebe Gets A Donkey Kong World Record
8:00PM Luke Plunkett | Steve Wiebe will be taking a crack at Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong world record during this year’s E3. To help him warm up, then, he just set a new Donkey Kong Jnr. world mark. More »
Features
A Claim to Fame, in the Dodge City of Video Games
3:00AM Owen Good | These days, a big weekend in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 26,000 or so, is defined by the line out the door at its Applebee’s. On its chamber of commerce’s list of 101 things to do there, you’ll see attractions like genealogy research, pumpkin picking, and a tour of the John Deere factory. The same as most towns spread out on the frying-pan flat Midwest of the United States, Ottumwa is the kind of place whose charm you’d come to understand not if you bothered to visit, but if you cared to stay. More »
