Games and Grog, once a month

We received this note from GAMBIT this morning about their new podcast:
Today is the official release of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Research Video Podcast Series. http://gambit.mit.edu/ Founded in 2006, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab sets itself apart by emphasizing the creation of video game prototypes to demonstrate our research as [...]

 Post Mortem coordinator Scott Macmillan points out some recent highlights for the Boston-area indie game scene. A full third of the finalists for the Indie Game Challenge are from the area, Dejobaan’s AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity was named ModDB’s indie game of the year, and we just wrapped up the 2010 Global Game [...]

Dejobaan Games’ own AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard For Gravity was just chosen as a finalist in the Independent Game Festival’s Excellence in Design category. Congratulations to Ichiro and the Dejobaan crew, and best of luck in the finals!

Congrats to Harmonix, who are listed as #3 in the Boston Globe’s Top 10 Places to Work! (Also congrats to Post Mortem regular Ike Adams for the mug shot.)

Congratulations to Harmonix, for making #20 on Game Develoepr Magazine’s list of the top 50 developers worldwide! (You can see the full 50 in the table of contents of the full report.)

Matthew Myers, owner of 2EastMusic has just announced that his original music video “Yuri The Only One” will be part of Video Games Live, the first and most successful video game concert tour in the world. The piece will be integrated at all VGL concerts, and Myers will perform live with the orchestra at select [...]

Turbine just announced that they’ve received $40 million in funding. Congrats!

In case you haven’t heard, Rockstar Games recently acquired Mad Doc Software. You can read the official press release here. Congratulations to the hard-working devs at Mad Do–no, wait: the hard-working devs at Rockstar New England!

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 [...]

[ 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, [...]