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P O W E R · M E T AL video game theme Mega Man 3 Cut Man Stage remix by GameOver.

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T H E · L I G H T S · T U R N I N G · O F F at the opening of world's largest digital festival in the main D hall at 4 PM. New laser show this year, a gigant disco ball, the Northon tower, several rock concerts with Sonic Syndicate etc. Visit the Stockholm edition of DreamHack in August.

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L A N G U A G E · E X P E R T · comic strip author, video game designer etc. has been interviewed in swedens biggest newspaper Aftonbladet today. Sippan is the manager of the upcomming puzzle game OCD.
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T O · S T O C K H O L M · first time ever. World’s biggest LAN-party normaly located to Elmia in Jönköping, is on tour and will attending the Technical Museum in Stockholm in the Winter Vaccation week from 21 Februrary.

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M R · J O S E F · F A R E S · famous director for several hits in the swedish movie business will receive a grant of SEK 700.000 for developing a new video game. The Nordic Game Program supports the development company The Story Lab for their new fantasy genred game called Brothers. Erik Robertsson president of Nordic Game to the right.
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I · H A V E · been active as tutor and teacher coaching several people into reach for a new desirable employment. Below I give short advice for how to make a kick start to get a position in the video game industry.

Write a personal letter describing yourself and ansvering the following questions:
/ who you are / What you are verry good at / why you should be picked / what others think of you
Produce a CV/ or resume with:
/ working experience / practice / education / language skills / other relevant info
Datamine the web on companies you are interested to work for finding out info about*:
/ operations and acctivites /annual report / nuber of employees / professional roles
/ trends / sales / turn over
/ titeles / projects / production lines and time lines
Create contact and ask for an internship
Use a coach and get an inspirational book on the subject

*If you want info about a swedish video game company you could use allabolag.se

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T O D A Y · I · V I S I T E D · an event called Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, an annual gathering for fans of old video and computer games. Gaming consoles and computers like C64, Nintendo NES, Sinclair Spectrum and Ataris. Lectures was presented by the early days enterpreneurs, today veterans. There was early conections between the music business and video games industry in the early days. CBS for example was involeved in the develpment of the PacMan game.

A video game quiz with 22 tunes was presented. Composer and game title you where supposed to remember. Music from C64, Nintendo NES and some remixes it was. I think of myself as a kind of video game music fan, but I got completely lost and succeded realy badly. I speaked with a dude that came as 6 in this competition and 2 in an overall retrogame competition. He was pleased with the day, two placements in the video game circuit in only one day. Old video game machines and subjects around them, have became objects for fashination just like old cars used to be.

The image above shows the price cermony and winner of swedich championships in original Pong video game at Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mr. Martin Lindell from the Swedish Game Industry Association hosted the event. More than 200 individuals attended the event.

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S P O R E · V I D E O · G A M E · by EA released 4 September, here discussed by producer Will Wright.