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Org News & Site Updates
Committee >	IGDA Chair, Jen MacLean named a top 25 "hero" of 2008 for getting to grips with fair credits for developers <Jan-05>
Web >	Famous Last Words: Who owns IP that's NOT part of a game? <Jan-05>
Web >	Culture Clash: It's the Allegory, Stupid - Violence is just a proxy for progress <Dec-17>
Web >	December Newsletter: Board Nominations, GDC Action/Mentors, Game Jam... <Dec-16>
Org >	Call for Nominees: 2009 Board of Director Elections <Dec-11>
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>
( News Archive • Newsletter • )

Chapter Updates
Meeting >	Japan: SIG-BoardGame: 4th Board Game Rally, Feb. 7 at Akihabara
Meeting >	Japan: IGDA Kansai: Video Game Produce method of Namco Bandai, Jan 24 at Kyoto
Meeting >	Japan: SIG-GameTech: Discussion Script Language in Video Game with New Year beer meeting, Jan.17
Report >	Philadelphia: December Meeting Recap
Meeting >	Albuquerque: NM Media Industries MIX
Report >	Albuquerque: Holiday Mixer/Charity Game Night
Meeting >	South Florida: Mini-Seminar with Manny Fragelus
Report >	Montreal: The Seeds of Spore
Meeting >	Albany: December Chapter Meeting
Report >	San Francisco: November 2008, "Starting a Game Studio" at Dolby Labs
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Latest Members
The following folks just became (or renewed as) part of the IGDA's 14707 strong membership:
>	Carl Bateman (CarlBateman)
>	Ryan McCullah (rmccullah)
>	Michael Herring (khakionion)
>	An-Tim Nguyen (ThornedVenom)
>	Robin Baumgarten (RobinB)
>	Michael Kingery (MichaelKingery)
>	Roberto Dillon (rdillon)
>	Elisabeth Beinke (ebeinke)
>	Ryan Wiltshire (Dolfe_Steele)
>	Cheryl Johnson (caj_trixie)
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