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Culture & News

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  http://www.gamelablondon.com
  
  
• Gamasutra - http://gamasutra.com/
• International Game Developer's Association - http://www.igda.org/
• Games Cultures - http://www.gamescultures.org/Main_Page
• Digiplay Initiative - understanding digital games - http://digiplay.info/
• Wikipedia Games Studies - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_studies
• Intelligent technologies for Interactive Entertainment - http://www.intetain.org/
• Digital Arts and Culture conference - http://www.dacconference.org/
• Women in Games - http://www.womeningames.com/

Conferences & Festivals

• Women in Games
• London Games Festival / Fringe
• Develop / Games Edu

Competitions

• Model your campus in Google Sketch-up 2008
  http://contest.sketchup.com/intl/en/
  
  
• 2007 Flash Lite Game contest - deadline 15 Feb 2008
  http://www.mobilecontest.org/?q=node/9
  
  
• Dare to be Digital 2008
  
  
• Imagine Cup 2007/8
  Register now - there are various competitions including game development, short film etc. This year's theme relates to technology sustaining the environment.
  
  
• Multimedia Student Life
  http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/student_central/competition_studentlife.htm
  
  
• Independent Games Festival - see this year's winners and get ready for next year!
  http://www.igf.com/02finalists.htm

Work

• Datascope Recuitment has good advice on preparing portfolios for entry into Games Industry, and samples of successful work.
  
• Gamelab London offering work experience to all final year students on BSc Computer Games, starting Sept 2008.
  
  
• Playgen looking for programmers for summer 2008 placements
  
  
• Blitz looking for C++ programmers
  
  
• Rare offering internships in software and art - 3 months from June 2008, 1 year from Oct 2008. Applications need to be in by late December 2007, see website for details.
  
  
• SEGA looking for games testers, flexible hours. QA experience will help your application.
  
  
• QA work at THQ for BSc Computer Games students - work experience.

Bedtime Reading

• Trigger Happy (2004) by Steven Poole - http://stevenpoole.net/blog/trigger-happier/
  
  
• The Art of Computer Game Design (1982) by Chris Crawford - http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/fac/peabody/game-book/Coverpage.html
  
  
• Rossum's Universal Robots (1920) - Karel Câpec - http://jerz.setonhill.edu/resources/RUR/
  
  
• Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley - http://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html
  
  
• 1984 (1948) - George Orwell - http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/1984/1/
  
  
• Videogame history:
  • http://www.thedoteaters.com
• http://digiplay.info/timeline