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What if Wikipedia cost $3 to read, wasn't updated, wasn't complete and was rated 3/3 on some scale that registers sexual content? Sold? What if it was on the Xbox 360? More »
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Our friends at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, the PC gaming partisans, uncovered a bit of a snarl in the Wikipedia page for now-primordeal gaming protoblog, Old Man Murray. An overzealous—or perhaps simply vindictive—Wikipedia editor had deemed the entry about OMM "unnotable" and fit for deletion. But within 24 hours, RPS had mustered such overwhelming support from the gaming industry (Valve's Gabe Newell, Linden Lab's Rob Humble, former Gamespot honcho Greg Kasavin, et al.) that the Wikipedia entry for Old Man Murray was rightfully restored. More »
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The amount of video-games related content on Wikipedia is staggering; I can't recall the last time I entered a title into its search and could not find a complete entry. As Wired writes, however, not everything passes moderation. Should it? More »
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Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica have been locked in a kind of cage match battle for relevancy ever since legions of high schoolers found the former was an excellent tool for half-assing term papers graduating on time research. One thing, however, that hasn't changed is the length of an article still means something in the Britannica. On Wikipedia, not so much. More »
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We frequent Wikipedia as much as the next guy, which makes us appreciate the occasional fanboy revision even more. For instance, did you know that the first time someone beat Halo 3 on legendary difficulty was back in 1753? Of course that's not true! 1753 was so long ago! They didn't even have electricity back then! They didn't even have lightning back then to make the electricity! More »
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Back in April, an edit to the Halo 3 entry on Wikipedia—which has to date seen over 8,500 edits—added the nasty little caveat "it wont look any better than Halo 2" in response to the claim that it will "set a new high water mark for next-generation games." That edit just happens to IP-traceable to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's Liverpool Studio. That edit was up for less than 30 minutes, but still, the fanboy damage has been done. More »
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Someone in EA's Redwood City offices has been trying to change history. An IP address belonging to said offices has been poking about in the company's Wikipedia entry over the past years, systematically removing references to EA founder Trip Hawkins as well as information on the much publicized EA Spouse incident, which exposed the oppressive working conditions employees were forced to contend with and eventually led to a class-action lawsuit. We aren't talking a tiny edit here or there. We are looking at whole paragraphs expunged from the text, positive spin being added where negatives couldn't be completely obliterated. More »
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By: Brian Crecente More »
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The man who brought us Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, is bringing us an "open-source magazine" about video games called "Gaming Wikia." Actually, there are four of these Wikia "magazines" — Music, cars, health and, as previously mentioned, games. Wired's Chris Kohler puts it best: Think NeoGAF, but run amock and with the abilities to edit content. Says company V.P. Dan Lewis, More »
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Tired of the common "Nintendo Sucks!!!!!!!!1"-esque edits to Wikipedia entries for console manufacturers Sony and Nintendo, Wikipedia has disabled the editing of both companies' internet encyclopedia entries, presumably until either both of their respective consoles launch. Or until the cross section of internet power users and video game enthusiasts mature, whichever comes first. More »
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I hope for Nintendo's sake that the Coke-bottle bespectacled fungineers at Google update their search suggestion spell-checker before the November launch. Right now, looking for news on the Wii asks if you're really interested in reading about is World War II. And thinking about Nazi's and the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki just take the fun out of accessible console gaming. More »
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Currently flagged as questionably neutral over at Wikipedia, the List of Video Games Considered The Worst Ever may not be an authoritative, judgmentally ascetic resource of bad games to be passed down via ebony marble time capsule to future generations, but it sure as hell is a lot of fun to read. More »
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While gaming's successes are fun to play, the abject failures are more fun to talk about. Enter Wikipedia's entry, 'The List of Commercial Failures in Computer and Video Gaming', which covers in excruciatingly compelling communal details all the games that landed with a big, wet splat, for practically ever system under the sun. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=192713&view=rss&microfeed=true If you're bored waiting for world servers to come back up in World of Warcraft, you can make the time pass a little quicker by checking out Wikipedia's list of pop culture references in Warcraft. Some I knew about, like Gahz'rilla in Zul'Farrak and the Mario and Luigi clones in the Un'Goro Crater, but others were a surprise, like references to Pulp Fiction, Walt Whitman, and Xanadu. Xanadu? More »
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