Here's the news for last week. Lookout tomorrow for a rundown of major discussion topics in January!
Duncan Fyfe is back writing games-related fiction at
Life Starts Here.
The Game Design Aspect Of The Month for February is "
emotive games."
Rock, Paper Shotgun is opening a new forum for people to write for free in the
Writer Hive, as a sort of pen of aspiring rockers, paperers and shotgunners. Good thing RPS is so cool, or that might never take off.
The Expressive Intelligence Studio's Noah Wardrip-Fruin is asking for help in commenting up
their proposal to extend Kodu to better facilitate deeper characters.
CFP from the Digital Cultures Research Centre on Paying Attention:
Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility (due 30 March, 2010), via Gamine Expedition.
Liz Losh points out an intriguing
call for proposals from the Critical Code Studies working group.
Erik Champion continues to provide a
wonderful calendar of upcoming CFP deadlines.
UC Santa Cruz's digital arts and new media MFA
applications are due February 15, 2010.
The
2010 IGF Mobile finalists have been announced.
The Game Developers Choice Ambassador Award
went to Penny Arcade.
The Offworld elements that were subsumed into Boing Boing have launched a
"Games To Get" page to feature all those quirky indie games they like.
Following
The Border House's lead, Kotaku Australia's David Wildgoose is asking his readers to talk about
their Commander Shepards.
The folks at The Border House
pointed out a
poll on player-character sex in Mass Effect at the BioWare forums.
The Vancouver East Cultural Centre is
hosting "Best Before," a performance that attempts to bring multiplayer video games into the analog realm. The show runs through February 6, and will move south to Seattle May 6-9.
Did you know that Burlington, Vermont's Firehouse Center is running an
exhibition on video games in contemporary art? It's called Game (Life), and it's running through February 13.
The UK's
Women In Games Conference is next month at Bradford College, March 25-26.
Early registrants for GDC can get
free Google Nexus One phones. Also, Side Meir will be giving the
keynote at GDC this year, on"The Psychology Of Game Design."
Spencer Halpin's documentary on videogame violence,
Moral Kombat, is available free online via video site Babelgum.
The
Game-Based Learning Conference is coming up on March 29-30 in London.
Comment by Roger Travis on February 4, 2010 at 10:12am 
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