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Iceland-based CCP Games (World of Darkness), creators of sci-fi MMORPG EVE Online, announced that they’re appointing Dr. Eyjólfur Guðmundsson to the role of in-world economist for EVE, making them the first to commission a real-world pro to work in-world on such a level.
Dr. Guðmundsson will publish quarterly reports on the state of the [...]

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Veteran rapper and avid video game player Redman is teaming up with urban gaming company Konsole Kingz to provide exclusive downloadable content for the XBOX 360 console. Through the arrangement, gamers will be able to download a custom theme for their console called Red Gone Wild, which features pictures of the Funk Doc posing with [...]

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Turner Broadcasting System has announced GameTap Indies, a new marketing and distribution program designed to introduce independent games to subscribers of its GameTap ‘all you can eat’ PC gaming service.GameTap officials explain that the Indies program will take effect immediately, and serve as an added distribution channel for independent game developers. By enlisting in the [...]

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Aspiring game designers spent June 18-22 learning about the industry in a Savannah College of Art and Design Summer Seminars workshop taught by SCAD graduate student Vladimir Neykov. 
Interactive design and game development professor Brenda Brathwaite is teaching the remainder of the summer game design workshops, but she had to speak at a conference during the [...]

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Hi-Rez Studios™, an independent developer of online entertainment, announced today that their debut title will be a mission-based action MMORPG using Unreal® Engine 3, set in a near future world of espionage and tactical covert operations.
Global Agenda™ has been in development for over two years by a team of industry veterans. It features fast-paced ranged [...]

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An evening with the players in the video gaming world.
If you’ve wondered where gaming intersects with film and video—it does so right here in this room, inside your imagination, under your keystrokes, and reflecting back at you from your cyberconnections.
If you don’t know anything about gaming, start here.
We bring you the people who are shaping [...]

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“Why make a clone of World of Warcraft?” – Petursson
EVE Online boss Hilmar Veigar Petursson has questioned developers that create World of Warcraft clones, suggesting there are plenty of other genres to exploit – including his own company’s specialist area of sci-fi.
For the CEO of Icelandic developer CCP, Blizzard’s market-leading MMO is already the perfect [...]

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Games are often in the news, but now, they are the news. 
In a landmark development, Georgia Tech prof Ian Bogost, founder of Persuasive Games, announced yesterday that the New York Times will henceforth carry his company’s “newsgames” as part of their editorial content: 
I’m excited to announce that Persuasive Games has a new publishing relationship with [...]

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ATLANTA – The 50 or so video-game companies in Georgia are the basis that state officials want to build on to develop a major industry through tax breaks and the hiring of a “digital entertainment guru.”
The Georgia Film, Video and Music division of the Department of Economic Development recently hired Asante Bradford to serve as [...]

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It’s more than a game: The future of apes may depend on lessons learned at Zoo Atlanta.
By BILL HENDRICK
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
 

There’s one essential when designing a computer game for great apes: an unbreakable screen.That’s why the screen remains intact as Sulango, a burly 175-pound orangutan at Zoo Atlanta, slams his hairy fists into the front [...]

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