*looks around*
I think they're gone.
At DICE, I met MTV News' games beat writer, Stephen Totilo, and I told him that if he had any interesting stories to send them my way and I'd put them here. So two weeks later, he forwards me a great piece about Robert Mruczek, who is a referee for the game world's official-unofficial record-keeping organization Twin Galaxies, and so of course like an idiot I forget to link it.
Anyway, here it is a week late but still fascinating. Mruczek actually offered rewards for top scores in arcade games out of his own pocket, which turned out to be a great motivator to get people to break long-standing records but ended up making Mruczek broke. He's still working on paying people the bounties he promised.
At any rate, check the piece out. It's one of the more interesting things you'll read today, I promise.
