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     1. A Dutch Human Technology bachelor student is doing a research about the games industry and her target group for his training period at
Team6 Games, so you can help him by paying him a visit and filling this
survey.
     2. The French Minister of Culture and Communication,
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres knighted
Ubisoft’s
Michel Ancel, video game creator of
Rayman,
Beyond Good & Evil and
Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie along with director and general manager of
Nintendo EAD,
Shigeru Miyamoto and author
Frederick Raynal as knights of arts and literature for their outstanding achievement in video games at a ceremony in France. France’s Order of Arts and Letters recognizes eminent artists and writers who have contributed significantly to furthering the arts in France and throughout the world. This is the first time that video game developers are honored this distinction.
     3.
Nokia, the Platinum sponsor of GDC Mobile,
announcedGregg Sauter, Director of Games Publishing, Nokia, will make a mobile games platform speech at the GDC Mobile sponsored lunch keynote session on Monday 20th March at 1.00pm, at the Fairmont Hotel, Main Ballroom – The Regency 1 & 2, San José, California. Titled ‘The Next Generation of Mobile Gaming’, the 20 minute presentation will reveal how Nokia’s next generation and SNAP Mobile gaming platforms will provide market defining solutions to the key issues and challenges faced by developers, operators and publishers today.
     4. On September 5,
Classic Media will
release the complete, uncut, Japanese original,
Gojira (Godzilla), on DVD for the first time ever in the US. From legendary Japanese filmmaker Ishiro Honda, Gojira quickly became a monster classic. Gojira will only be available as part of a special DVD 2-pack that also includes the re-edited US version, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, starring Raymond Burr. Both versions have been digitally remastered in HD. The Gojira/Godzilla: King of the Monsters DVD 2-pack stomps onto retail shelves late summer for $21.98 SRP.
     5. The official
PureSim Baseball 2006 is located
here.
     6.
GarageGames announced a
partnership with premiere scientific book publisher
A K Peters. Together, the two companies will produce and distribute books for game developers worldwide. The first book that will be published under this partnership is The Game Programmer's Guide to Torque, a primer on how to make games using GarageGames' proprietary Torque Game Engine.
     7.
Bango and
July Systems have
signed a partnership by which July Systems' retailing solutions combined with Bango's browse and buy payment technology will allow content providers to create sophisticated mobile 'stores' that they can market and promote directly to mobile users on any mobile network, anywhere in the world.
     8. Gameswelt.de posted a
Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars preview.
     9.
VoodooPC introduced the Voodoo OMEN Quad SLI Personal Computer, featuring four NVIDIA GeForce graphics processing units (GPUs), a dual-core AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor, and Voodoo’s F5 Liquid Cooling System with Silent Phase radial fans.
     10.
Nival Interactive, Inc. announced it has established its global headquarters in the United States and recruited an executive management team comprised of American video game industry professionals, including
Kevin Bachus, co-creator of
Microsoft’s Xbox, as chief executive officer.