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Steve Wiebe: Donkey Kong Master, Rock Star

January 18, 2011
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Steve Wiebe: Donkey Kong Master, Rock Star

On the spectacle of watching King of Kong hero Steve Wiebe play Donkey Kong at Logan's Hardware, January 15, 2011.
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Not Dancing in Central Square

November 19, 2010
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Not Dancing in Central Square

Last week, Viacom announced that it was planning to sell Harmonix and had already classified the Cambridge-based development studio as a “discontinued operation.”
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A 21st Century Sherlock

August 1, 2010
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A 21st Century Sherlock

This summer's premiere of BBC's new Sherlock raises issues on how one modernizes the Victorian Sherlock Holmes to fit in an alternate 21st century London, as well as shaping a world that a century's worth of Holmes has never impacted.
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The Tester

January 31, 2010
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The Tester

Sony's new reality TV program on the PlayStation Network continues to raise questions about audience/player (mis)perceptions of labor and production in the games industry.
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The Plight of the Rockstar Wife

January 24, 2010
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The Plight of the Rockstar Wife

In the past few weeks, a fresh controversy about the working conditions in the industry of game development has arisen, this time centered on Rockstar San Diego.
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