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The Daily GameDev.net - (Found July 6, 2008 )

Happy birthday to my country! I watched John Adams last weekend, it was awesome, and I'm feeling the most patriotic I've ever felt ( &0038;gt; 0). That is not an emoticon. Sony released a huge update to the Playstation 3 &111;n Wednesday which would give the system an Xbox 360-like in-game cross media bar (which is smartly abbreviated as XMB); this update is monumentally numbered as 2.4.0. It was a cool update -- finally, Playstation 3 users could respond to messages that their friends sent...
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Dusmania 10 - Indy game developers meet the professionals! - (Found July 6, 2008 )

The date for Dusmania 10 has been set: during July 19-20, 2008 keen indy game developers will be able to meet professionals from the games industry in RodgauNieder-Roden, Germany.
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Weekend Reading: Tales from Journal Land - (Found July 6, 2008 )

We're a bit light &111;n the content this week but with the 4th of July around the corner, I've had to cut short the usual length of time this feature covers. Seeing as that tomorrow is a holiday for us in the US of A, here's your weekend wrap-up a day early. Enjoy the three-day weekend fellow Americans!
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Announcing June 2008 Karvonite CTP - (Found July 6, 2008 )

The June CTP 2008 version of Karvonite has been released. Karvonite is a FREE persistence framework for the .NET Platform including XNA and the compact framework that let you easily serializedeserialize objects. http:code.msdn.microsoft.comkarvonite
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The Daily GameDev.net - (Found July 6, 2008 )

This is the week of the United States' Independence Day so, in light of that, I'm presenting entertaining stories (even though the fourth isn't until Friday). The eleventh annual Independent Games Festival sent out its yearly call for submissions yesterday and it's, as usual, something that any independent game developer should be looking at for a game submission. Last year's grand prize winner was Crayon Physics Deluxe, with Audiosurf taking the audience award, and Synaesthete taking the best.
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GCAP08 - Call For Abstracts Closing Soon! - (Found July 6, 2008 )

Game Connect Asia Pacific abstract submissions close &111;n July 8th! Deadline for submission of abstracts: Tuesday 8 July 2008 Authors advised of abstract acceptance: Tuesday 19 August 2008 Get in quickly to avoid missing out &111;n your opportunity to present at GCAP 08! GCAP 08 is inviting abstract submissions from leading industry members of the games, IT, interactive entertainment, and film and sound industries. Should your abstract be accepted you will receive FREE conference...
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SWEngine (2D Game Engine) - (Found July 6, 2008 )

SWEngine is a powerful and free 2D Game Engine. It has simple and flexible API to easily develop 2D games. It uses OpenGL, Glew, GLSL, FMod, Box2D and DirectInput in it's framework. It also has a good API doc and lots of tutorials (nearly 40). You can access SWEngine and other SWWorkshop products at http:www.skywar.org
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The Daily GameDev.net - (Found July 6, 2008 )

Microsoft Games Studio Europe said that simultaneous releases of PC and Xbox 360 games in European countries would be akin to "shooting themselves in the foot." MGSE business development manager Peter Zetterberg says: "If we launch a game that is &111;n 360 and PC simultaneously, we basically shoot ourselves in the foot by allowing the German market to choose to play the PC version -- because they are more likely to buy that than spend their money &111;n the Xbox 360." This view makes sense for.
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=499875

PC remains Europe's favorite gaming platform - (Found July 6, 2008 )

In light of the &111;ngoing debate whether PC Gaming is dying, Dutch mainstream news site nu.nl examines a study by Forrester suggesting the PC is still the platform of choice for 60% of Europe's gamers.
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