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FOUR DAYS OF GAMING at the consumer oriented game industry trade fair at Kista Convention and Conference Center in Kista Science City in Stockholm West. Nintendo, EA, Sony and all the rest where represented. Learn more at Gamex website

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3 .0 · P R E S E N T E D · at game developers evening at Swedish Game Awards 20 January at the Student Unions House at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Now it’s more simple than ever to create videogames with a more abstract programming and straigt forward production methods on the Microsoft Xbox 360 platform
Visit the XNA Creators Club

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S I N C E · 1 9 9 7 · exhibitions presented on video games, viewed as art and culture. The museum is located at Gubener Strasse 47 in Fredrichshain, Berlin.
Learn more at computerspielemuseum.de

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U P · 1 0 % · last 30 days. The Uppsala based swedish gamedeveloper with the Darkness and Riddick games, was last SEK 0,34.
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Read an interview with the CEO at Gameindusry.biz

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B I G · E V E N T · W I T H · D I C E · May 22 05.30 PM at SoStockholm Kungsträdgården. Per Strömbäck from Dataspelsbranchen.se Björn Norberg from MejanLabs and Peter Henriksson HR manager at Dice. Food and drinks and discussions.

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G T A · I V · has reached a new Guiness World Record in fastest selling entertainment product ever with 3,6 million units sold in the first 24 hours. Read more at Gameindustry.biz.

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L I S T E N E D · T O · S T A R B R E E Z E · HR Manager the other day. He lectured on the Starbreeze production organization, who do what and when. He also payed a tribute to the demoscene where Starbreeze originates from. Right now their in the production of the sequel of the first Riddick game.

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I · H A V E · R E L E A S E D · a demo album called "Expost Nuus" in Februar. A sample with short exerptions could be found here on allears.se. The theme is travelling and is comprehended as a concept album for a travelling video game where the main character visits different exotic places. The album is in an orcestral instrumental genre.

Visit AllEars.se and listen to the Demo

Click on the image to see cover art in high resolution

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B Y · U B I S O F T. According to Gamasutra has the french video game publisher acquired rights to Tom Clancy name for games, media. The Tom Clancy brand is worth USDM 20. I am willing to sell out my name Tom Smoke for just a fraction of that.

Learn more on Gamasutra

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O D D · A H L G R E N · from Avalanche Studios the developer of the Just Cause video game and right a game that sold 1 Meg. exemplars world wide. He is now working on the sequel Just Cause 2. Right now Avalanche has three projects under development. Odd lecturing on Intelectual Property development and management.

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T H I S · W E E K E N D · the yearly recurring computer convention and LAN Magfest take place in Hilton Mark Center Alexandria (close to Washington DC). It’s the 6:th volume and 1.600 attenders is estimated to show up to listen to video game metal monsters like Powerglove, and learn from lecturers, listen to game music in kiosks etc. etc.

Attenders are showing up from all over the world. One much appreciated guest is Wire the mastermind of GameOver gamemetalists from Sweden.

Visit Magfest 6

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X N A · L E C T U R E · with Dave Mitchell the director of Microsofts xna game developer tool department giving a lecture at Game Developers' Evening at Swedish Game Awards at Royal Institute of Technology. Talking about democratization of game development with easier, shorter, cheeper development projects making the game production available for more people.

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N E W S F L A S H · “At 08.00 the doors of Dreamhack Winter 2007 where opened. One hour later over 2.100 game hungry had checked in. The lines of people attending with computers and office chairs where long and it was not easy to reach the booked seats.” (29.11.07 Jonkoping/Sweden )

T H E · P A R T Y · I S · O N · with a terrafast internet connection pumping out 40 GB/s to the the end users. Cisco is representated with their fastest router the CRS-1, a device that is able to deliver 92 TB/s. The speed is 1.000 as fast as todays topspeed between two internetpoints between two ISP:s. This environment is working as a testbay, Mr D. Garpenstahl, chairman of Dreamhack board claims.

With the Cisco router frequently used on internet 1 Billion gamers could be able play at the same time online, says Mr S. Hannervall CEO Cisco Sweden.

40 GB/s out to the end users will make a user able to watch 10.000 videos at the same time, according to E. Hallberg at TeliaSonera.

To sum up: 1.000 times faster networking could give you at least 1.000 times more high quality fun and action.

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T H E · V I D E O · G A M E ·F A I R · A N D · E X P O · D 3 · in Copehagen starts today with attendance for professionals and press plus a video games award cermony. The event is held in Øksnehallen in Vesterbro from friday to sunday 10.00–18.00 each day. D3 Expo

The organization Nordic Game Program aiming to support North European independent upstart game developers will be represented on the expo. Nordic Game Program

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I N · T H E · C I T Y · O F · M A L M O · this years edition (v.2) of Spelfest is hosted. The event is a collaboration betewen the game industry orgainsations Spelbranschen (CEO Per Strömbäck), Malmo City Council, Malmo University College, Swerok, Nordic Game Program and several video game companies. Three days of expo, lectures and gaming. The event is aiming at youth in highschools who are interested to entering the game industry in the near future.
The Malmo based company Massive Entertaiment (CEO Martin Walfisz) will present their BAFTA nominated and E3 2007 winner “World in Conflict”
A list over Swedens most influencal individuals in the video game business could be found at Ekonominyheterna (swe)
The image to the right showing the editior was taken during the clubnight at last year’s gamefest in Stockholm

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G O I N G · T O · C O P E N H A G E N · the capital of Scandinavia. visiting the New Nørrebro Activity Park, the Index Exhibition and the Ørestad Culture Festival
In Copenhagen we also have IO-Interactive and Deadline Games, two wellknown video game developers.

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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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A · N E W · V I D E O · G A M E concept, HeadBanger, is nominated for this year’s final of Swedish Game Awards, that will be conducted Saturday 2 June at the Stockholm Grand Culture House. The two competitors plays air guitar and working out some serious headbanging to extreme metal tunes by bands like Morgana Lefay. The Price Cermony Show will be presented by Orvar Säfström famous host from Swedish Television.