WoSblog would like to take this opportunity to admiringly offer its warmest congratulations to Christoph Waltz, who was this week quite rightly rewarded with an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in recognition of his superb portrayal of SS Colonel Hans Landa in Quentin Tarantino's excellent WW2 knockabout Inglourious Basterds.
But what's going on here?
This 7,000-word feature, originally partly published in GamesTM magazine, was an odd one. GamesTM commissioned it as part of their long-running "Bible" series of all-encompassing guides to gaming genres, and sent the most rigid copy template I've ever seen in my career (eg all the boxouts like "The Iconic Character" are predefined).
I duly submitted the piece as commissioned, making only one small alteration to the template, which was entirely necessary both for space and practical reasons. Nobody raised any issues at that point, so several weeks later when it was published I was greatly surprised to see it bumped to the Retro section of the mag, cut down to six pages (from the original eight), and now billed as a vague sort of history of old racing games instead of a "Bible" piece.
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