Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Newsletter/20110106/News

New articles

 * There were 128 new articles in October 2010
 * There were 175 new articles in November 2010
 * There were 154 new articles in December 2010

Announcements

 * In October 2010, italic formatting was applied to article titles via . Italics were incorporated into the following month.
 * On November 19, 2010, PresN was promoted to administrator following a successful adminship request.
 * In December 2010, the Article alerts system was brought back online with the help of WP:VG member H3llkn0wz; the WP:VG-related article alerts can be found at WikiProject Video games/Article alerts.
 * In December 2010, Xeno and David Fuchs were elected for 2-year terms on the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee.
 * In December 2010, the Indie games task force was created.
 * Per this ongoing discussion here, any interested editor is invited to join WikiProject Horror to help work on articles there, some of which overlap with WP:VG.

On the Main Page
Several video game articles appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page between October and December 2010. Congratulations to the contributing editors!

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


 * Ninja Gaiden (Nintendo Entertainment System) on October 18
 * Golden Sun on November 10
 * The Simpsons Game on December 17

Facts from the following articles appeared on the Main Page's In the news section:
 * Call of Duty: Black Ops, November 11–14

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


 * Common Sense Media, December 30
 * Faery: Legends of Avalon, December 24
 * Infinity Blade, December 20
 * Chrysler Classic Racing, December 17
 * Street Racer (Atari 2600), December 12
 * Thor: God of Thunder, December 10
 * Medieval Mayhem, December 6
 * The Video Game Critic, December 6
 * Car Town, December 5
 * Shining Hearts, December 4
 * Brain Games, November 26
 * Oystron, November 22
 * Obsidian, November 21
 * Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes, November 15
 * Galaxian 2, November 2
 * Cloud gaming, October 16
 * Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, October 6
 * Arthur's Quest: Battle for the Kingdom, October 2
 * Mangia, October 2