Super Smash Brothers: Melee pro Adam "Armada" Lindgren has stepped down from his position as a panellist for the game's rules committee to open it up for more female representation. The committee, spearheaded by the community platform Melee It On Me, aims to standardise all Melee tournament guidelines.
Some of the world's best Smash Bros. players say they are owed thousands of dollars for their performances in a tournament called BEAST 7 held in Sweden last February.
Adam "Armada" Lindgren, considered one of the "five gods" of competitive Super Smash Bros. Melee, dropped out of last weekend's DreamHack Austin due to a controller that isn't malfunctioning properly. Yes, you read that correctly.
"It was the first time I had ever controlled anything on a video screen," Ernest Cline, the author of Ready Player One -- and a new book, Armada -- says of playing Space Invaders as a child in 1977. "I was suddenly drunk with power."
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