In 1977, kids were listening to Rush, smoking cigarettes and a few of the lucky ones had even gotten to second base with the girls, all of which left Bioshock creator Ken Levine wondering “where am I at this point?” Well last week thousands knew exactly where he was as we gathered for his opening keynote speech at PAX 08 offering us a peek at his inner-nerd and a few lessons on coming to terms with our own.
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The Game Developers Conference holds its next event in San Francisco next March, but will miss one of its best.  The event organizers have announced that after 5 years working on the Game Developer Conference and Game Developer Events,  Jamil Moledina is leaving in pursuit of other interests.

The announcement states Meggan Scavio will pick-up the reins as Event Director.  She looks to continue and enhance the GDC’s relationship with the developer community which sounds promising as she is an 8-year veteran.
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The folks organizing 2008’s Austin Game Developers Conference (Austin GDC) have put out a friendly reminder to possible attendees that early registration for the event ends today, July 31st.

This time around they’ll be be hosting keynote speeches from Bruce Sterling and co-creator of Club-Penguin Lane Merrifield.

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Notes on Game Dev writer Nic Berry sits down with David “Knuckles Dawson” Dreger, a Microsoft MVP for Xbox and game journalist at Rooster Teeth, home of Red vs. Blue. And just what does it take to make a career out of blog writing about video games? Apparently perfect MCAT scores.

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