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King of Kong's Billy Mitchell Opens Arcade in Orlando Airport

Billy Mitchell, best known for being painted the villain in 2007’s The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, has opened up an arcade in Orlando’s airport. Fittingly called King of Kong, the arcade features 8-bit themed decorations, and is adorned at the entrance by Mitchell himself alongside his King of Kong rival, Steve Wiebe....  read more

The 25 Best Documentaries of the Decade (2000-2009)

Upton Sinclair, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein may have set the standard for muckraking in the 20th century, but their heirs apparent are as likely to pick up a video camera as they are a pen when they fight the battles of the 21st...  read more

This week on the podcast

We sit down with Seth Gordon, the director of the new documentary King of Kong, which jumps into the world of diehard video game fans and follows two of them on the quest to break (or keep) the World Record for Donkey Kong. "Wild Mountain Nation" by Blitzen Trapper. I haven’t been able to stop listening to this song since the disc landed on my desk. "The Ritz" by Office. Not only is this band one of our Four To Watch bands in September, these guys were featured on the Artist to Watch segment we put out with GameTap TV....  read more