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We have an exciting opportunity to partner with Cartoon Network’s massively multi-player online game FusionFall in their search for boys 15-17 who play the game to be featured in an on-air campaign. Please review the information below and see if your player fits the description and they could be feature [...]

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There’s a new entrant in the rapidly growing market for retail cards and virtual goods for online games today: the Zeevex Virtual Currency Exchange. The coin of the realm is Zeev Tokens, which can be purchased via retail cards sold at thousands of brick-and-mortar stores, redeemed and stored online, where it can be used to [...]

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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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Mark you calendar for May 21, 2009 6:00pm-8:00pm. Benn R. Konsynski of Goizueta Business School will be moderating a prestigious panel of industry experts who will provide an in depth discussion and introduction to the legislative intent of the Georgia entertainment Industry Act and provide a primer on how to apply and redeem up to [...]

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Come July, Atlanta-based Zeevex is going to start selling its Xtreme Online Game Card in more than 20,000 brick-and-mortar retailers in the U.S. thanks to a distribution partnership with InComm, providing a way for gamers to buy virtual currency offline to redeem their online value through the Zeevex website at a later stage. By doing [...]

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Adjunct Instructor – Game Python Programming
This job is a part-time position in Academic Affairs that reports to the Division Director .
Salary – Commensurate with education and experience.
Start Date – Summer Quarter June 29
Minimum Requirements – Bachelor Degree in CIS or related field. MS, MA or PhD in IT/Computer Science field preferred. Game Industry [...]

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On Friday, March 5, the Technology Association of Georgia’s (TAG) Entertainment Society announced that the “Digitainment” initiative is now underway. The announcement, made by Entertainment Society Chairman Audra Browning at the Gwinnett Technology Council Q109 Meeting, signals the unveiling of a program that will marry five of Georgia’s technology sectors in order to reshape and [...]

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In the current economic climate, it’s hard to find a company with good news to share. And the volatile MMO business might be the last place you’d look.
Yet Iceland-headquartered CCP, developer of EVE Online, is not just healthy, but growing, seeking 60 new hires, says North America president Mike Tinney. “We’re in a pretty [...]

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Georgia really wants game developers to come to their state, so much so that free rent is being offered at a new facility.
The Creative Coast Alliance (TCCa) and the Savannah Economic Development Authority (SEDA) today announced a deal for up to one year of free rent in the Game Development and Digital Media Center. The [...]

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