Oh boy, have we got some fun stuff for you all today! Before we get to the real fireworks, very quickly I want to give a quick update to the lawsuit between Billy “Always Has a Plan” Mitchell and video gaming scorekeeper Twin Galaxies, which is still in progress. TG has publicly provided some but …
For many years, Guinness World Records exclusively partnered with Twin Galaxies as its authority on video gaming achievements. For all its flaws, at one time TG was the sole major scorekeeping organization. In 2017, Guinness broadened their scorekeeping affiliations, adding material from speedrunning hub Speedrun.com to their annual “Gamer’s Edition” of the Guinness World Records book. More …
(When disgraced video game cheater Billy Mitchell issued his legal threats to Twin Galaxies and to Guinness in September 2019, along with his flop of an evidence packet which he claimed would exonerate him, I wrote the following series of observations on how the Robert Mruczek MTV interview related to this new “evidence”. Originally posted …
(In July 2019, while researching other matters, I incidentally stumbled upon the fact that Phantasy Star speedrun cheater Kevin Durden had quietly gone back and filed DMCA notices in attempt to strike the evidence against him. This included a DMCA notice against a speedrun discussion show which, among other segments featuring other players, brought Kevin …
(When I began researching the Billy Mitchell score dispute, I did so with the idea I might be interested in writing about it one day. Thus, I wished to not make myself part of the story. When I first posted this discovery in February 2019, I actually believed the story was wrapping up, lol. I …
(As with my look at Magic: The Gathering scheduling the previous year, I just about jumped out of my chair when I realized I’d seen something important in the finer details of MTG set releases. What especially tickled me was that I’d used exclusively mechanical circumstances to make a story-relevant observation, even though admittedly I …
(Shortly after the conclusion of the Billy Mitchell score dispute in 2018, I went back to get up to speed on what I’d missed on the Todd Rogers dispute. And what I found was that others had uncovered an exploit that allows much faster times on Barnstorming, the very game I had written about previously. …
…on Barnstorming (Atari 2600). His claimed best time of 32.04 seconds is provably impossible. Hello, everyone! As most people know, there’s an ongoing debate around Todd Rogers, the “first professional gamer,” and his long-standing high score on Dragster. (See this and this if you don’t know what I’m talking about.) It’s been over four months …
(ersatz_cats here. This was my first serious endeavor in gaming journalism, posted to Reddit in January 2017. I had noticed a number of very interesting things, both about the release schedule of Magic: The Gathering up to that point, as well as indications that schedule was about to change. What was wild was, while I …
