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Marietta Daily Journal
By: Staff
MARIETTA – The Board of Regents has approved a new bachelor’s degree in computer game design and development for Southern Polytechnic State University, the university announced Tuesday.
SPSU’s school of computing and software engineering has already offered a concentration in game design, but the new degree program is designed to attract more [...]

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Oceanography computer simulation a union of talents in Marietta.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Shane Blatt
Creatures of the deep can’t escape 12-year-old Daniel Leon.
One by one, sharks, marlin and bass are scooped up by Daniel’s net as he navigates his submarine through the crystal-blue water.
But this is no ordinary ocean expedition. A fifth-grader at the Marietta Center for [...]

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An Insider’s View of the Making of Fusion Fall
Monday, March 9
3:00 – 4:30
Skiles 002
Join us for a roundtable discussion with the designers of the FusionFall MMOG as they discuss how this complex game,
merging a variety of diverse cartoon properties was developed by a multi-national team.
Chris Waldron, Game Producer
Sam Lewis, Lead Game Designer
Mario Piedra, Creative Director
Matthew [...]

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The Entertainment Software Association’s charitable arm, the ESA Foundation, is offering 30 scholarships to women and minorities who aspire to get a job in the games industry.
The amount of scholarships is double the 15 that were available in each of the past two years. The awards are worth $90K in total, and for the first [...]

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It’s an amazing and intimate conference in which the industry’s brightest stars come to Savannah for two days of talks, dinners and a ridiculous amount of southern hospitality.
Registration is only $50 for the general public for two days.
Speakers are still being announced (as I get their bios and profiles in), but the line up [...]

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Celia Pearce will be featured in an interview on the online radio program DigIn! with Limor Schafman, on Monday, February 2 at 4pm EST. The subject will be current and future trends in virtual worlds and multiplayer gaming.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Limor-Schafman
The interview will also be archived for later podcasting.
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Registration is now open for
Living Game Worlds IV – Interplay: Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
December 1-2, 2008
Georgia Tech
Technology Square Research Building
85 5th Street, Atlanta, GA
Step in to the vanguard of digital gaming at Georgia Tech’s 4th annual Living Game Worlds symposium to be held December 1-2, 2008. Raph Koster and Chris Klaus headline [...]

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Dr. Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, the Lead Economist at CCP, developer of EVE Online, talks about the impact of what’s essentially a real-world economy in a virtual world.
by Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, PH.D. on Tuesday, October 14, 2008

It has been over 30 years since online virtual worlds have started to emerge in the form of MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons). [...]

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Hot field creates jobs, and schools increase their course offerings
By Gayle White
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
So this guy goes into a supermarket looking for food in a post-apocalyptic world —- wait, let’s make it an old, rural grocery store —- and the place has been taken over by zombies.
Why can’t he just leave?
How about, maybe, while he’s [...]

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EVE Online has been getting increased mainstream media coverage. Recently the New York Times covered EVE’s Council of Stellar Management (CSM) summit in Reykjavik, as well as the self-styled ‘bad guy’ alliance Band of Brother’s initiative to annihilate their rivals in New Eden, wiping them from New Eden’s star maps.
A new MMO article at [...]

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