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News & Views

6/25/16-7/1/16

Hey everyone, I’m vacationing this week so I’ll keep this brief. News & Views collects the week’s best video game writing and puts it into one convenient place. Check out the links below for stories about the man behind the infamous Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter, how the fighting game community might handle top-down management, and why visibility is not enough for underrepresented grounds in video games.

And of course please check out the brand new episode of The Impact Factor podcast that was posted today! You can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, or if you prefer other methods, check out our SoundCloud. We’re on YouTube too!

Spotlight

ON THE END OF ALL THINGS: Dark Souls on the GBA in 2003

Rafeal Montero, Mammon Machine

Worth Reading

Visibility is Not Enough

Heather Alexandra, Giantbomb

How Mother 3 Escaped Development Hell to Become a Modern Classic

Bob Mackey, US Gamer

Talking to the man behind Sonic the Hedgehog's incredible Twitter

Andrew Webster, The Verge

"N****r" and other words I learned while playing Overwatch

Marcus Garrett, Top Shelf Gaming

We eSports Now? Capcom's Sponsor Ban Introduces the FGC to Top-Down Governance

Luis Baez, Shoryuken

How WASD became the standard PC control scheme

Tyler Wilde, PC Gamer

'Its the age of the self': how Kim Kardarshian gamified her life and made $100 million doing it

Kwame Opman, The Verge