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Get PocketTOKYO, JAPAN — Rémi Coulom is sitting in a rolling desk chair, hunched over a battered Macbook laptop, hoping it will do something no machine has ever done. That may take another ten years or so, but the long push starts here, at Japan’s University of Electro-Communications.
When he was 15, Glen Schofield walked into the office of comic strip distributor King Features Syndicate without an appointment. He didn't know any better. He just knew the company, a division of media giant The Hearst Corporation that managed "Spider-Man," "Family Circus" and "Flash Gordon.
A video game tournament in Seattle in July. Pro gaming, called e-sports, is becoming a lucrative worldwide spectator sport. Credit Stuart Isett for The New York Times
Like athletic sports, Dota 2 is a young person’s game. Neither ppd nor UNiVeRsE sees himself playing into his 30s, while their 26-year-old ally Clinton "Fear" Loomis is lovingly referred to as "Old Man Dota.
Phil Fish is, to put it lightly, a controversial figure in the gaming community.
My friends keep venting to me about the ending of Shadow of Mordor, the new video game set in the Lord of the Rings universe. I can't relate. I never finished it. In fact, I rarely finish any game.
Inside an old, ruled notebook, plucked from Thorson's bedroom shelf in the Indie House basement, hide pages of video game level designs.