Posts tagged hank-chien

Hank Chien reclaims King of Kong title

by Justin McElroy (Jan 11th 2011 4:20PM)

This is one of those stories we scarcely need to report, as we're sure you felt it somewhere deep in your bones, but there's a new (old) King of Kong. As the unmistakable feeling of the tectonic plates shifting below your feet will attest, the honor was taken by plastic surgeon Hank Chien with a ...

Meet the new King of Kong

by James Ransom-Wiley (Mar 24th 2010 5:55PM)

If your internet hasn't been abuzz with rumors about Hank Chien, the new King of Kong, then maybe you've been frequenting the wrong chat rooms. "He literally appeared out of nowhere," people are saying. "He was locked in a basement with the game and a 6-month supply of canned foods," some have ...

There is a new King of Kong

by Justin McElroy (Mar 10th 2010 2:00AM)

Sorry, it's not a sequel to King of Kong, the documentary that showed the battle between ruthless Billy Mitchell and nice guy Steve Wiebe to become the world's best Donkey Kong player. This is a new guy on the scene, 35-year-old plastic surgeon Hank Chien, who's just taken the world record in the ...