Tag: STEVEWIEBE

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, one of our favorite tech artists, has a new exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery in the U.K. Several of his older biometric works will be on display, as well as two new ones: 'Please Empty Your Pockets', which scans visitors' belongings with an airport-type ...

Billy Mitchell, the ostensible villain of 'King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' and recently usurped 'Donkey Kong' champion, doesn't like to lose. Despite the fact that he did lose the latter title to Steve Wiebe in 2006, he eventually regained the world championship, and retained it for three years. Then, in March of this year, a dude named Hank Chien muscled out Mitchell with 1,061,700 points, ...

Aside from ushering the term "kill screen" into the popular vernacular, 2007's 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' also introduced the non-gaming world to the intensity and drama of highly competitive battles for video game supremacy. In the film, everyman protagonist Steve Wiebe breaks gaming icon Billy Mitchell's stranglehold on the 'Donkey Kong' high score, only to lose it a few months ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Steve Wiebe, focus of the oddly riveting 2007 'King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' documentary (which should be thanked for bringing the "kill screen" phrase into ...