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Gladys Knight To Be Honored With The National Medal of Arts
Music legend Gladys Knight is being honored with a coveted award few achieve in this lifetime.
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The news that Knight would be receiving the National Medal of Arts was announced via a press release.
“The National Medal of Arts recipients have helped to define and enrich our nation’s cultural legacy through their life long passionate commitment,” said National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chair Maria Rosario Jackson.
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SWV & Xscape: Kandi on LaTocha “She’s Gladys Knight & We’re The Pips!” [Episode 4 Sneak Peek]
Xscape are renowned for delivering high notes and high tension. Especially when operating in the reality TV space.
The iconic ensemble are making headlines on a weekly basis in light of the drama playing out on their Bravo series ‘SWV & Xscape: The Queens of R&B.’
Already proving to be addictive viewing, the show spotlights the iconic groups as they prepare for an epic joint show comprised of their biggest hits
Beyond celebrating the music that has been the soundtrack to so many lives,
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The Knight Witch shows a magical bullet-hell is a great match for a Metroidvania
Bullet hell shooters have never been one of my fortes in games. There is certainly something magical about watching masters of the genre weave effortlessly in and out of flying orbs in the likes of Gradius, R-Type and Ikaruga, but whenever I attempt to step up to the gamepad myself, my movements have always proven too flighty, too seized by panic, to make much headway with them. Enter The Knight Witch, which takes the thrill of the bullet hell shooter and wraps it up in a lovely Metroid-like-shaped package my brain can actually understand. It’s a fantastic little game, and I’m only sorry we didn’t cover it in more detail when it came out at the end of November last year.
Have You Played… Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers?
At a time when LucasArts was cheerfully mocking rival developer Sierra’s fondness for punishing players with game overs you could trigger at the drop of a hat, Sierra themselves seemed intent to double down. In Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, not only can the titular protagonist suffer a variety of gruesome fates if you so much as put a foot wrong, but there’s a point where you can soft-lock the entire game by failing to pick up an easily missable single snake scale from a busy crime scene — and you won’t even know you did anything wrong for several in-game days. I’m not 100% sure this wasn’t an oversight on the part of the developers, but at the same time, that’s exactly the sort of shit that Sierra liked to pull.
Meet Jonathan Knight: The guy who runs Wordle, Spelling Bee, and The Crossword
If there was a five-letter Wordle solution to properly encapsulate my conversation with Jonathan Knight, head of games at The New York Times, it would be D-E-L-T-A.
On Jan. 5, Delta announced its collaboration with the New York Times to provide all the Times puzzles — including Wordle, Spelling Bee, and The Crossword — to Delta SkyMiles Members with free Wi-Fi while you’re in the air.
“We just think it’s an awesome way for a whole new audience to be introduced to New York Times games,” Knight told Mashable at CES 2023. “And we hope, obviously, that they go on to have a deeper relationship with us after the flight.”
The games aren’t going to go directly on the back of a seat, like where you might find movies or other entertainment during a flight. Instead, you log into the Delta portal on your phone, use your Sky Miles account, or make a free one, and you’ll have access to the games.
In an interview with Mashable, Knight talked about the partnership with Delta, his starting words on Wordle, the competitive nature of the Mini Crossword, keeping the games safe for everyone, and more.
Mashable: Is Delta going to offer all the games from the Times or just Wordle and The Crossword?
It should be our full offering. Basically, you’re gonna go to nytimes.com/games. Because you’re logged in, through Sky Miles, you’ll have free access to all of our games. Currently, some of our games are free; some require subscriptions. We’re going to start with Spelling Bee and roll that out. But you’ll get full access to the full Spelling Bee instead of being gated on subscriptions.
Are you familiar with how many people battle with the Mini Crossword?
How many people battle with it? Like compare their leaderboard scores you mean? Yes.
I play it with my partner every single morning and lately he’s been beating me. I was wondering if you could fix that.
I’ll see what I can do, I’ll see what I can do.
The Minis are a really popular game and it’s our only game that has a leaderboard. We recently made a couple small updates in the app to better surface the leaderboard. So now when you finish the Mini, there’s a button right there that says go check it out. We’re going to be bringing more visibility to that feature.
Do you compare your score with anyone?
I compare my score every morning to our executive producer Zoe Bell, who is very competitive, and comes from the games industry. And today we were literally tied, I think at one minute, 12 each.
How about the Wordle? Do you always play?
I always do the Wordle. In fact, I broke my 48-day streak on New Year’s Eve, which was really annoying. So I’m starting all over with a new streak. I’ll usually do 30, 40, 50 days in a row and then I’ll miss for some reason.
Have you sold any movie rights to Wordle?
We have not sold the movie rights to Wordle, but I will get right on that.
Is Wordle dead?
We’re still really happy with the level of engagement on Wordle. A lot of people ask: Is it over? And of course, the audience came down a bit from its height. But we still have a very large audience that’s dedicated, plays the game every day, like you, sharing with their friends. We’re really pleased with how well the audience has held up, and really pleased with the acquisition overall because we’ve introduced this whole new audience to our other products.
What’s your starting word?
I rotate through a small subset of words. I like [starting with the word] stare: S-T-A-R-E. I’ll sometimes do variations on that like spare or scare if I’m feeling particularly adventurous.
Does an editor actively choose the word every day?
That’s a bit of a complicated answer there. When we acquired the game from Josh Wardle, a programmer based out of New York who made the game, … he had to come up with a bunch of words and he basically programmed in about three or four years worth of solutions. How he picked those words, we haven’t really talked about publicly, but it wasn’t random, it wasn’t a computer. He had a methodology, he wanted them to be common words that we would all know, and he baked those in.
[The New York Times] is largely still using Josh’s original word set. It’s not like we went crazy and changed everything. We want the game to be true to its original success. But [the Wordle editor will]l go in there and fine-tune. We had a little bit of fun at Thanksgiving with the word feast, which generated a lot of conversation. So that was kind of our first editorial hand on the game. And we also watch out for anything that might be offensive. We want the game to be fun for everybody and not do any harm or hurt anybody’s feelings. So that’s a big part of what [the Wordle editor] does.
Speaking of doing no harm, there was recent controversy with the crossword puzzle [in the shape of a swastika]. How do you deal with sort of the backlash to that?
Obviously, our games are intended to bring joy to people, be it diversion from the news, be it diversion from any kind of controversy. And the goal is for people to have a good time. The rules of crossword grid layout is that they have radial symmetry, both vertical and horizontal symmetry. It’s required in the grid. That’s been how New York Times crossword puzzles are built since 1942 when Margaret Farrar was the first editor and she set down that rule. So any resemblance to any kind of, you know, it’s obviously not intentional. It was unfortunate that it was perceived that way.