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WPI IMGD Speaker Series

Posted under General, Announcements - Mar 23rd, 08 - Comments Off

The Interactive Media & Game Development (IMGD) program at WPI has been running a weekly speaker series for the past few years, open to the public.
Recently, they began to video record the talks, and they post them online.
And if you have something interesting to talk about, they are always looking for speakers. You can get […]

Denis Dyack Speaking At MIT This Evening

Posted under Event announcements - Mar 20th, 08 - Comments Off

[ March 20, 2008; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Sorry for the short notice, but I just found out that Denis Dyack is speaking this evening (5pm) at MIT. Reposted with permission from the GAMBIT blog:
This afternoon the US GAMBIT lab is playing host to Denis Dyack, the founder and president of Silicon Knights (Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, […]

What I said at the hearing

Posted under Boston game news - Mar 18th, 08 - 2 Comments

The hearing at the State House was a bit confusing. There were a number of bills up for consideration, and a couple of hundred people who were there to support and/or protest one or another bill. After about an hour and a half of presentations on other laws, I was suddenly called as part of […]

Hearing details

[ March 18, 2008; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] The flurry of press today indicates that someone has decided to push this bill hard, and it’s become necessary to ask you all to step up.

There is a hearing Tuesday before the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies.

The hearing will be held in room A1 of the State House in Boston (Beacon Hill, […]

March Meeting

Posted under Event announcements - Mar 8th, 08 - 2 Comments

[ March 12, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] We have a special treat for the March Post Mortem, in the form of an out-of-town speaker. Coray Seifert, Associate Producer and Cinematic Director at THQ’s Kaos Studios in New York City, will be giving a talk about the cinematics of Frontlines: Fuel of War. Coray is also on the IGDA Board of Directors, so […]

MIT Interactive Entertainment Event: Game Studio Stories

Posted under Event announcements - Mar 4th, 08 - Comments Off

[ March 5, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] The MIT Interactive Entertainment SIG is hosting an event tomorrow night featuring a panel of current and former game company executives discussing the rise (and in some cases, the fall) of companies and their pitfalls and successes along the way. Should be an interesting time!
Wednesday, March 5th – 6pm – 8pm

Getting Started and Succeeding

In December […]