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38 Studios Announces Mass. Game Challenge - GameCareerGuide.com38 Studios is sponsoring a game development contest for university student studying game design, the winners get $3000 each for their winning game. “The rules of the competition stipulate that teams much “build a playable video game featuring the 38 Studios mascot and his alter ego, Mean Munch, as well as create additional characters for Munch’s ‘posse.’”

38 Studios Announces Mass. Game Challenge - GameCareerGuide.com

38 Studios is sponsoring a game development contest for university student studying game design, the winners get $3000 each for their winning game.

“The rules of the competition stipulate that teams much “build a playable video game featuring the 38 Studios mascot and his alter ego, Mean Munch, as well as create additional characters for Munch’s ‘posse.’”

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Playing to Learn - GameCareerGuide.comThis seemed like and article that a lot of future game designers in our class could look a tseriously. It outlines a method for analyzing games as you play them to better learn how to design a good game. 

Playing to Learn - GameCareerGuide.com

This seemed like and article that a lot of future game designers in our class could look a tseriously. It outlines a method for analyzing games as you play them to better learn how to design a good game. 

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A funny video promoting Mercs 2. It seems they borrowed the style of the show The Office, but still a funny video. Mercenaries 2 is the sequel to Mercenaries Playground of Destruction, where you play along with a bunch of ragtag mercenaries trying to make a fortune of the killing business.

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Game Features - GameDaily - Video Game Fans in the FleshVideo games have come from pixels, to polygons, and even on the big screen. But now they return to the world’s oldest canvas, the human body. A tattoo artist specializes in video game tattoos, and shares her work with the world. Some really crazy stuff in this article. 

Game Features - GameDaily - Video Game Fans in the Flesh

Video games have come from pixels, to polygons, and even on the big screen. But now they return to the world’s oldest canvas, the human body. A tattoo artist specializes in video game tattoos, and shares her work with the world. Some really crazy stuff in this article. 

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Who knows when this game will ever really come out, but when it does it’ll be a real blast from the past to play. It sounds like they got the original voice actor for the voice acting job too. This game has been on hold for about 10 years now , and it’s exciting to see its making some progress.

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NPD Fallout: Rock Band Proves its Worth news from 1UP.comRockband seems to have plowed through the charts, selling more copie than Guitar Hero III. The game’s fame may become short lived as reports of easily breaking controllers spread around the net. We can only see if Rock Band will truly be the king of music gaming this holiday season. 

NPD Fallout: Rock Band Proves its Worth news from 1UP.com

Rockband seems to have plowed through the charts, selling more copie than Guitar Hero III. The game’s fame may become short lived as reports of easily breaking controllers spread around the net. We can only see if Rock Band will truly be the king of music gaming this holiday season. 

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MTV Games and Jerry Bruckheimer Team Up news from 1UP.com The guy that produced Bad Boys, Con Air, and Pirates of the Caribbean is teaming up with MTV games to come up with some great new ideas for gaming. I look forward to seeing what Mr. bruckheimer and MTVG can come up with, seeing as their already huge success, Rock Band, has proven worthy of a gaming studio. It could also turn into a marketing massacre, where game plots are inserted in movies and movie plots into games, but then again nowadays whats the difference? In any respect, pretty interesting to see the big names finally realizing the power of gaming in media.

MTV Games and Jerry Bruckheimer Team Up news from 1UP.com

 The guy that produced Bad Boys, Con Air, and Pirates of the Caribbean is teaming up with MTV games to come up with some great new ideas for gaming. I look forward to seeing what Mr. bruckheimer and MTVG can come up with, seeing as their already huge success, Rock Band, has proven worthy of a gaming studio. It could also turn into a marketing massacre, where game plots are inserted in movies and movie plots into games, but then again nowadays whats the difference? In any respect, pretty interesting to see the big names finally realizing the power of gaming in media.

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Viacom, Microsoft ink content, ad deal - News at GameSpotViacom’s expands their handle on content available on xbox live beyond Paramount Pictures. Though the possible new content is tempting to think about, this deal also includes advertisement ventures. I thought advertising for MTV and BET shows was bad enough when i have the option to switch the channel, now i have to look at ads for Run’s House everytime i turn on my console?  

Viacom, Microsoft ink content, ad deal - News at GameSpot

Viacom’s expands their handle on content available on xbox live beyond Paramount Pictures. Though the possible new content is tempting to think about, this deal also includes advertisement ventures. I thought advertising for MTV and BET shows was bad enough when i have the option to switch the channel, now i have to look at ads for Run’s House everytime i turn on my console?  

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Activision encores earnings revision - PC News at GameSpotLooks like activision just keeps on getting bigger.  Huge sales for Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero III show the mighty muscle of Activision. With the new merger with Vivendi and Blizzard in place, who knows what super sales game they’ll come up with…World of Guitar Hero? Call of Warcraft? only time will tell. 

Activision encores earnings revision - PC News at GameSpot

Looks like activision just keeps on getting bigger.  Huge sales for Call of Duty 4 and Guitar Hero III show the mighty muscle of Activision. With the new merger with Vivendi and Blizzard in place, who knows what super sales game they’ll come up with…

World of Guitar Hero? Call of Warcraft? only time will tell. 

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