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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.

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N O W · T H E · S T O C K M A R K E T · has slowed down for half a year. It could possibly be time to invest and why not in Swedish game industry stocks. We have Starbreeze (Star), 24hour poker (24h) (formerly Daydream) and the entertaining conglomerat 2entertain (2ent) notated on different Swedish stock trading lists. EA (ERTS) owns Dice (Battlefield) with over 200 emloyees at Sodermalm, Stockholm.

If you are interested in Swedish stocks and market visit Avanza a leading trading site.The cheapest stock trader in Sweden is Aktiedirekt with a 1 EUR prize per courtage. But the most respected agent I think of is Handelsbanken, the banker for the Wallenberg family. The OMX that owns the Stockholm Stock Exchange is possibly going to be bought up by NASDAQ.

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A P P L E · I N C ’ S · Macs will be a plattform for video gaming to seriously count on in the future. That is clear scince EA and Id declared that they will develop and publish titles for Mac. The game companies top management attended Apple World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2007 held in San Francisco.

CEO Steve Jobs gave a speech on Apple’s strong efforts, as the strenghts of the upcomming operative system, OSX 10.5 Leopard that will be released in October. Also the web browser Safari will be released and now it is the fastest browser on the market. A public beta was persented on the Apple web, and then downloaded 1 miljon times in the first 48 hours.

Watch the WWDC keynote video

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EA/DICE represenatives, new employees from England presented post mortem of the Battlefield 2142 and atomistic low level video editing based quantatative research models at Gamed Designers Evening #2 at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm tonight. After the lectures there was recruitment activities in EA:s Battlefield camp.

The complete program