https:// www. gameinformer. com/2022/01/27/ mortal-kombat-co-creator-ed-boon-to-be-inducted-in-academy-of-interactive-arts-sciences
congrats to Boon
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Not sure what this academy stands for, but I assume something prestigious. I’ve been playing Mortal Kombat since I was a little kid since the sega days. Massive props to Ed Boon.
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from the wiki
https:// en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Academy_of_Interactive_Arts_%26_Sciences
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS ) is a non-profit organization of video game industry professionals. It organizes the annual Design Innovate Communicate Entertain summit, better known as D.I.C.E., which includes the presentations of the D.I.C.E._Awards
AIAS was originally founded in 1992 by Andrew Zucker, a lawyer in the entertainment industry. AIAS co-promoted numerous events with organizations such as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Directors Guild of America and Women in Film. Their first awards show program, “Cybermania '94”, which was hosted by Leslie Nielsen and [Jonathan Taylor Thomas, was broadcast on TBS channel.2] While a second show was run in 1995, and was the first awards program to be streamed over the Web, it drew far less audiences as the first.