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Org News & Site Updates
Web >	The Games Game: Doing Instead of Dreaming <Dec-02>
Web >	Famous Last Words: NDAs - Bombs In the Boilerplate <Dec-01>
SIG >	Casual Games Quarterly - Fall 2008 Issue <Nov-28>
Event >	GDC 09 Student Scholarship Program Now Accepting Applications <Nov-24>
Web >	November Newsletter: Global Jam, GDC Scholarships, Leadership Recap <Nov-24>
Event >	Trip Summary: Montreal International Game Summit <Nov-21>
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>
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Chapter Updates
Report >	San Francisco: November 2008, "Starting a Game Studio" at Dolby Labs
Meeting >	Silicon Valley: Chapter Meeting/Social Dec 17th
Meeting >	Philadelphia: Next Philly IGDA Meeting is Scheduled for 12/3
Meeting >	Japan: Introduction of the evolutional AI system Montecalro method for Go, Nov. 28
Meeting >	Japan: JETOR seminar “How to use GDC as business side” Nov. 26 (Supported)
Meeting >	Japan: How negative connection between video game and violence, Dr Anderson speech (Supported), Nov. 15
Report >	Japan: 3rd board Game play workshop Nov. 1 (IGDA JP blog)
Report >	Japan: New Indy Game stream, Why did text Adventure “Higurashi” make new movement and strong fan community? Oct.31 (Article Endo’s blog)
Report >	Japan: Symposium “How to develop new business model of CGM” Oct.24 (Supported).
Report >	Japan: Sense of Wander Night 2008, All Game Movies released at Tokyo Game Show Oct.10
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Latest Members
The following folks just became (or renewed as) part of the IGDA's 14752 strong membership:
>	Morten Eistrøm Andersen (morteneistrom)
>	Timothy Davis (TimTheEnchanted)
>	Christopher Diorio (Nabisco2k5)
>	Mitu Khandaker (mitu)
>	Estefania Pickens (pickenem)
>	Joseph Hodgkiss (gamerwolf)
>	Eve Powell (Quistis)
>	Christian Schladetsch (cschladetsch)
>	Stan LePard (stanlepard)
>	Cheri White (cherisoca)
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