Meeting the Challenges Game Industry CEOs Face

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A Guided Tour of Second Life

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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“How Virtual Worlds Will Transform the Way We Do Business”

Date:   Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Time:   5:00 PM to 9:00 PM (agenda below)
Audience:  Up to 250 in the studio; approx. 1500 more in global network of 24 chapters
Where:  Studios of Georgia Public Broadcasting, 260 14th Street, NW
  Atlanta, Georgia 30318: Directions     Register Online or at www.mitforumatlanta.org
Event:  The Internet revolutionized the world of business; now pundits are speculating […]

Game Developers eXchange 2008 focuses on alternative and independent gaming

Keynote speaker Eric Zimmerman to share his “independent game developer’s survival guide”
ATLANTA – The Savannah College of Art and Design-Atlanta will host the fourth annual Game Developers eXchange April 10-11, 1600 Peachtree St. This year’s conference will spotlight alternative gaming and emerging modes of design, production and distribution.
Matthew Maloney, animation professor and academic director of […]

Virtual Worlds and New Realities in Commerce, Politics and Society

http://www.halleinstitute.emory.edu/invitations/VirtualWorlds/VirtualWorlds.htm

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FATWORLD: Online Game Explores America’s Obesity Crisis

(San Francisco, CA)— ITVS Interactive (Independent Television Service) and PBS’s Emmy® Award–winning weekly series Independent Lens today published FATWORLD, an online video game created by Atlanta-based independent game studio Persuasive Games, about the politics of nutrition. FATWORLD explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition and socioeconomics in the United States.
In the last two decades, obesity has […]

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS FOR GAME EXECUTIVES

Happy New Year! Following one of the best years ever in interactive entertainment history, 2008 is finally here. But from Web 2.0 to increasing consolidation, social networking, digital distribution and user-generated content, along with it also comes an entirely new set of challenges and opportunities for today’s PC/video game executives – many unlike those ever […]

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Video Game Makers Should Take a Lesson from Nintendo and Market to Women

Dr. Celia Pearce of Georgia Institute of Technology believes the video game industry has yet to really take advantage of the huge opportunity female gamers present.
Posted by Celia Pearce on Wednesday, December 12, 2007

During the upcoming holiday season, consumers will spend billions of dollars on video games. While their commercial success is […]