Video Game Coverage

Someone's sleeping on the couch tonight. 

@kobunheat

In a cute move to promote their newest Donkey Kong Country game, Nintendo handed the reigns (so to speak) of their Twitter feed to series curmudgeon Cranky Kong. In a self-aware nod, Cranky is just as out of touch as most corporate entities who try to pull social media stunts.

~~Fun Fact~~ Did you know that canonically Cranky is the original DK from the classic arcade game? Fun times. Anyway, here are some more tweets:



Hopefully we'll get some more good Q+A as the day goes on:

E-sports journalist Amanda Stevens boarded her United Airlines flight ready to cover a League of Legends tournament, sporting her Black Panther Marvel hat and upside down America flag shirt, when she was notified by a flight attendant that her hat was making the pilot feel 'uncomfortable.' Stevens live-tweeted the situation as well:







i09 reached out to Stevens and she told them that United Airlines told her she was ejected from the flight because of her interaction with the flight attendant...

Shoutout to Patrick Lenton for putting together this unexpected, drama-soaked saga. The tale vividly portrays the trying loops any player will jump through to adopt a virtual dog in Skyrim. It's gold, and painfully accurate.

Or, there's always the tl;dr version: