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 Org News & Site Updates
Event > Member Discount: early $100 rate for Living Game Worlds IV at Georgia Tech <Nov-12>
Web > Culture Clash: Intelligent Design - Want better games? Listen to gamers <Nov-06>
Web > The Games Game: Time to Start Building a Portfolio <Nov-05>
Web > Famous Last Words: Who Owns Student Work Product? <Nov-04>
Event > Trip Summary: Ontario Game Summit and GameON:Finance 2.0 <Oct-31>
Web > October Newsletter: Awards, Leadership, Global Jam <Oct-27>
Event > IGDA Partners With AIAS in Support of Interactive Achievement Awards - IGDA Members to Participate in the Awards Voting Process <Oct-22>
Event > IGDA/AIAS Awards Partnership FAQ <Oct-22>

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 Chapter Updates
Meeting >Ottawa: Come PLAY with IGDA!
Meeting >San Francisco: November 2008, "Starting a Game Studio" at Dolby Labs
Report >Philadelphia: Gamers turn out for Relic and Big Huge at U of Penn
Report >Pittsburgh: 3rd Annual South Side Studio Crawl Recap
Meeting >North Carolina Triangle: November Meeting at Buckhead Saloon
Meeting >Albuquerque: An Evening with Novint Technologies
Report >Finland: IGDA Finland Season Report for 2007-2008 Season, part 1
Meeting >Philadelphia: Chris Jurney on AI, Big Huge Games, and more mayhem
Report >Philadelphia: Game Demo Night at Drexel
Meeting >Montreal: Spore Design Postmortem

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>Breaking Into the Industry: Doing Homework, All My Threads Are Closed, So Starting A New One
>Breaking Into the Industry: IGDA Scholarships
>Breaking Into the Industry: Would a Digipen or SMU master's program be a bad idea financially?

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 Latest Members
The following folks just became (or renewed as) part of the IGDA's 14672 strong membership:
>Andy Luckey (andyluckey)
>Michael Bellavia (mb555)
>Crystal Silva (fuchibima)
>Yossi Horowitz (YHorowitz)
>David Wessman (WessmanDavid)
>Michael Cavaretta (mcavaretta)
>Jessie Rakestraw (Jryzac)
>Andre Beccu (abeccu)
>Sean Lynott (slynott@westwood.edu)
>Jeferson Valadares (jeferson)

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IGDA Leadership Forum: program/speakers posted, open for registration
IGDA Leadership Forum: program/speakers posted, open for registration

Ubi's Wilkinson on Prince of Persia's new moves
Ubi's Wilkinson on Prince of Persia's new moves

Massive turn out for IGDA-Shanghai party at ChinaJoy
Massive turn out for IGDA-Shanghai party at ChinaJoy

750 developers come to play at annual IGDA-Austin picnic
750 developers come to play at annual IGDA-Austin picnic

New IGDA Developer Memorials initiative recognizes passing of Erick Wujcik
New IGDA Developer Memorials initiative recognizes passing of Erick Wujcik

Leadership Forum 07 DVD and web vids
Leadership Forum 07 DVD and web vids

Frontlines deconstructed in Jersey
Frontlines deconstructed in Jersey

Board Results: Jen MacLean appointed to chair; Brathwaite, Buscaglia, DeLoura and Train new directors
Board Results: Jen MacLean appointed to chair; Brathwaite, Buscaglia, DeLoura and Train new directors