Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Newsletter/20130403/News

News and announcements

New articles

• There were 80 new articles in January 2013.
• There were 99 new articles in February 2013.
• There were 88 new articles in March 2013.

Announcements

• Currently up on the Bounty board, there is an offer of a $250 donation to the Wikimedia Foundation if the article for Wario regains its Featured Article status. The bounty can be found here.
• On the Reward board there is an offer to get Realm of the Mad God up to GA status. For a mystery Steam game if it goes to Featured Article status. Reward expires 1 January, 2014.
• The Pro Gaming Taskforce has been revived and has been now renamed the eSports Taskforce.
• Hahc21 received the Four Award for Gravity Bone which met the awards requirements on March 4th. Previous members that also got the award for a video game article were Kung Fu Man for MissingNo. and S@bre for Tales of Monkey Island.
• And now for the following members who have become Administrators in this quarter: Salvidrim
  (Editor's Note: Would also like to congratulate Sergecross73 on his successful RfA of November 2012 since we failed to mention it last quarter's issue.)

On the Main Page

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Several video game articles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page between January and March 2013. Congratulations to the contributing editors!

The following were Today's featured article on the following dates:

• Bastion on 30 January
• The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II on 2 March

The following were Today's featured list on the following dates:

• List of songs in Guitar Hero II on 28 January

The following were Picture of the day on the following dates:

• Robin Hunicke on 15 March
• Commodore 64 on 25 March

Facts from the following articles appeared on the Main Page's Did you know? section:

• Monster Monpiece, 2 January
• Long Live the Queen (video game), 3 January
• 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series, 4 January
• Hero Academy, 5 January
• Danganronpa, 6 January
• Gravity Bone, 6 January
• MineCon, 7 January
• Godus, 7 January
• Super Robot Wars UX, 8 January
• Family Guy Online, 8 January
• Miasmata, 9 January
• War for the Overworld, 10 January
• Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, 10 January
• Party Place, 11 January
• Saxxy Awards, 11 January
• The Stanley Parable, 13 January
• Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit, 13 January
• The Splatters, 14 January
• Scarygirl, 14 January
• Star Trek (2013 video game), 15 January
• Frog Fractions, 16 January
• Defenders of Ardania, 16 January
• NeocoreGames, 24 January
• Dokuro (video game), 25 January
• Killer is Dead, 3 February
• Thirty Flights of Loving, 9 February
• Music of Final Fantasy XIII-2, 9 February
• My Hands, 25 February
• Chris Remo, 20 March
• Torment: Tides of Numenera, 25 March