Jenova's Blog - Down Beat

There's some great info in Jenova's blog piece about the Experimental Game Conference Entry, Downbeat.

http://interactive.usc.edu/members/jchen/archives/006495.html

Game Industry's 100 Most Influential Women.

In anticipation of this week's Women in Games Conference in Seattle, Next-Gen.Biz has produced a list and biographies of 100 women in the game industry who are making a difference... These women are impacting not only the industry trade of making and marketing games, but are also exploring games as social commentary, games as art, games as educational tools, games as a story-telling medium, and games as the leading form of entertainment in our world today. They include leaders and founders, academics and educators, consultants and vendors, authors and editorialists, marketers and pitch people, creatives and technologists.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3783&Itemid=2

Casual Games Association

The Casual Games Association is focused on providing educational resources and community support for the entire gaming industry for the purpose of bringing developers, publishers and distributors together to achieve our common goal of growing the industry.

There are tons of links and events listed at this site.


http://www.casualgamesassociation.org/

A portal site by Encore who both publishes games and distributes them, among other types of software.

http://www.encore.com/

Started by some young kids, this portal site has become a haven for a community of young gamer and film makers.

http://newgrounds.com/