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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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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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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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Find out if you have what it takes!
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Playology/The EGL’s Weekly Game Salon
Monday March 3, 4:30pm
Experimental Game Lab/Skiles 354 (Third Floor)

A Guided Tour of Second Life
Bring your laptop and show us your favorite places in Second Life. 
If you’re a noob, come see what SLers think is cool!

With your host, Artemesia Sandgrain

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