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Well despite all the gaffes Mitt Romney may be right in knowing how to work with venture capital and incubate businesses to create more jobs.
Thats ALMOST believable.
Zynga's Brian Reynolds Joins Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' Board of Directors
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The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS), the professional video games organization advancing the artistic values of the interactive entertainment community, and Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), the world's leading social game developer, today announced that Brian Reynolds, chief game designer, Zynga, has been appointed to the AIAS' Board of Directors effective immediately.
A twenty-one-year industry veteran, Brian Reynolds is recognized as one of the industry's most talented and productive game designers. Honored by PC Gamer magazine as one of twenty-five "Game Gods" and one of IGN's "Top 100 Game Creators of All Time," Reynolds played a key role founding three successful videogame studios: Firaxis, Big Huge Games, and Zynga East. At Zynga, Brian led FrontierVille to 35 million players and now helps game teams across the company innovate on social gameplay.
"Zynga has been leading the charge for delivering quality social gaming to an ever expanding demographic," said Martin Rae, president, Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. "And they have been at the forefront of one of the major shifts in our industry. Brian's work at Zynga has helped redefine how people enjoy and interact with the medium of gaming, and we are proud to have his experience and deep insight on the Board as gaming further becomes a part of everyone's everyday life."
"I'm incredibly excited to be joining the Academy Board," said Brian Reynolds, Zynga's Chief Game Designer. "Their awards program has always been a gold standard of recognition and career advancement for game makers and I'm honored to have a chance to help advance it. Likewise, the D.I.C.E. Summit blows me away every year with the quality and caliber of developers they bring together. I believe this opportunity is an important step in the continuing assimilation of social games into the broader game community."
"Brian brings wonderful insight, creativity, and passion to the Board of Directors," said Mike Capps, president, Epic Games, and member of the Academy's Board of Directors. "During his twenty-one years in games, Brian has created exceptional console, downloadable, and social games – all while staunchly supporting the advancement of our dynamic industry. Welcome, Brian!"
Reynolds' videogames have sold over 6 million copies worldwide, and he has masterminded the design of several smash hits including Civilization II®, Alpha Centauri®, and Rise of Nations®, as well as Catan® for Xbox360 Live Arcade. Highly regarded for his mastery of the art of programming, Reynolds' dual specialty gives him the substantial advantage of being able to bring his own visions to life - and he has built a reputation for finely tuned gameplay. As Chief Game Designer for Zynga, Brian now applies these talents to the rapidly growing world of social games, and with his cohorts at Zynga East in Maryland, is hard at work on creating newgames.In June 2006, Brian was also elected Chair of the International Game Developers Association the non-profit professional society dedicated to advancing the careers of game developers worldwide, and he continues to serve the organization in an advisory role. Brian is particularly interested in finding ways to get developers a better deal on intellectual property rights, credit and recognition, awards programs, and general quality of life - leading him to focus his volunteer work in those areas. Brian's other volunteer work has included judging the International Game Festival, the Game Developers Choice Awards, and the AIAS Interactive Awards.
The AIAS Board of Directors is the governing body of the 22,000 plus member Academy and is composed of 16 industry leaders representing Blizzard Entertainment, Capcom, EA, Google, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, as well as representatives from the independent development community like Day 1 Studios, Epic Games, and Insomniac Games.
For a complete list of the AIAS' Board of Directors, please visit www.interactive.org.
About the Academy of Interactive Arts & SciencesThe Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) was founded in 1996 as a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote, advance and recognize common interests and outstanding achievements in the interactive arts and sciences. The Academy conducts its annual awards show, the Interactive Achievement Awards, to promote and acknowledge exceptional accomplishments in the field. To further enhance awareness of the Academy's vision, the organization created the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit in 2002, a once yearly conference dedicated to exploring approaches to the creative process and artistic expression as they uniquely apply to the development of interactive entertainment. With more than 22,000 members, including Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Ubisoft, THQ, Day One Studios, Epic Games and Insomniac Games, The Academy celebrates and honors the creativity of video games worldwide. More information can be found at http://www.interactive.org and http://www.dicesummit.org. Follow the AIAS on Facebook and Twitter.
About Zynga Inc.Zynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is the world's largest social game developer with more than 227 million monthly active users playing its games, which include CityVille, FarmVille, Words With Friends, Scramble With Friends, CastleVille, Hidden Chronicles, Zynga Poker, Empires & Allies, Indiana Jones™ Adventure World, The Pioneer Trail, Mafia Wars and Cafe World. Zynga's games are available on a number of global platforms, including Facebook, Google+, Tencent, Apple iOS and Google Android. Through Zynga.org, Zynga players have raised more than $10 million for world social causes. Zynga is headquartered in San Francisco.
All the stuff on the Periphery, try the core of the economy would be closer to accurate.
O Reilly not describing gingrichs issues with Romney well.
BILLY MAC, BOBBIE SUE, AND BILLY JOE,
billy mac never does quite catch up with those 2 in the song.
I can relate to Billy Mac haha.
And yes we know that London is cleaning up from the V2 frontal attack so to speak.
It is possible for Gingrich to accelerate from a second place status, and then come on stronger and stronger with a cadence of winning otherwise known as "God Speed".
Theres a Rythym to what the public accepts as constructive.
It shows great values of liberty to be plagiarized without being asked. just saying.
Well Florida doesn't inspire me politically, not surprised, Dade County WHO ? Broward county What ?, Miami where ? lol.
Thanks to the areas of Florida that were not bamboozled.
Yup the song for politicians:
Newt Gingrichs daughter ( Jackie Cushman ) gave a very heartfelt explanation for following and supporting her father. ( MSNBC )
Very sincere, intelligent, warm, and trusting.
Thats the stuff that makes us BELIEVE, thanks for that.
Pearls and maroon colors works well from us cranberry types in Massachusetts haha.
Republicans need a plan to deal with Florida foreclosures, but Obama does not ? Hello ? Mcfly ?
CNBC producers promoting the crud out of Romney, 4 more years if Newt doesnt make it.
Herman Cain makes a heck of alot more sense than the old fart SUNUNU
selling that motor oil maple syrup in the Massachusetts escape
state called New Hampshire, hehe.
Are not opinions fun ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Sununu
Father was a film distributor of palistinian decent, interesting
PHD 1966 MIT Mechanical Engineering. Hmmm also interesting.
maybe not such an old fart but wrong about the NEWT, he he.
Style over substance, this is the way to solve problems.
4 more years
Yeah so if I read this correctly the competition in the prez race is designed to:
1. Make candidates stronger by focusing on whats important and getting the message across
2. Show the public is fed up with cheating and callous behavior towards jobs, life, health and such
3. Vet out through controversy all of the materials to better get to know the candidates track records and how they will create positive change as president
4. Some of it is just to say HEY I may not be Joe Megabucks lottery winner CEO but my contributions are not chopped liver cause we know how much the public liked our "shtuff".
5. More openness prevents situations that are wrong and nasty like that in Syria and wrongheaded nations.
6. None of this is designed to create more tensions in the world for that is the opposite of most peoples world peace and prosperity protocol.
I cant pull any jokes off with this bunch either,
Yeah guys Mandy is right look up joke in the encyclopedia.
And yes if we are holding off on savings interest rates for these "stories" I dont believe it is worth it.
And Go Patriots
Ya know when we see how many folks are making money on baloney, guys like Michael Jordan who cannot fake his game become that much more outstanding.
Hats off to the real players.
If it is true that Samsung has a more dominant position in the smartphone hardware of the phones than that could bring about change the most effectively.
Not trying to leave apple shareholders high and dry but a realistic rate of return may be more helpful.
An open system to compete with Google and Apple if it is spearheaded
by the phone companies, since they may not be making money on the
smartphone revolution would possibly be devastating to what
smartphones are today, its probably not going to happen overnight
though.
Not everything is going internet on everything:
Cant speak for everyone but shopping for pillows and comforters I believe most people would like to try, feel, touch, look at the product and know they can walk out of the store with it instead of shipping it and wondering what you are getting.
Amazon is good but not good enough to close all the box stores, there may be some consolidation however since the internet was only an infant when the box store concept was designed.
What can you say about a public on crack ? LOL
Zuckerbergs comments for the week is: this is and always will be a free service for customers, NOW HURRY UP WITH THAT IPO..
Ha Ha, Not his idea.
The facebook and advertising business is a cesspool folks but we will humor it. Same hype that google had about search advertising.
See business models for dating services and porno almost identical ( and strip bar models )
CNBC, Contrived National Bogus Coverup ( tongue and cheek of course )
The Dot Bomb crash was sort of orchestrated in a way to remove the HIGH PEs that were becoming dangerous to new money in the markets.
Tax code speech means we have nothing else to say or offer from this viewpoint.
Dole said that Gingrich came up with an idea every 2 minutes,
What he didn't say was that all ideas were used to complete fulfillment of the economy and taxes and prosperity
Newt is right Romney is dishonest, should be obvious but maybe he is attracting the dishonest republican crowd which potentially could be quite large.
Dole, now there is a guy that we trust.... or .... NOT
Jeb Bush, Does NOT like Gingrich..... Someone told him to take that position and he doesn't have the faintest idea as to why...
The Polls ( probably controlled by the left ) all want Romney,
if this keeps up in all primaries the point will be mute and the republican party all but gone. easy enough at that point. 4 more years.
MCD weekly upchannel all of 2011, havent found news to suggest otherwise so the dip is likely to stay above 94.60
Tadaaa problems solved.
Someone tell Rachel Maddow ( the best communicator on TV ) not to worry about the Gay or Kenya issue. Silliness obviously.
The designers are upset about plagiarism thats it, thats all.
My fortune cookies says you can achieve great things in life if you just don't care about who gets credit.
( no credit means zero dollars though, hard to accept that ).
Netflix is up 16% this week is good for the downtrodden
The National Bank of Greece is up 28%
Ron Paul believes free trade will show people the way to a democracy or a better government without it being forced.
And Ron Paul was great when he said you know these subjects really dont interest me all that much.
Rick Santorum was great by saying can we avoid the petty squabbles about money and past record. too much tit for tat.
Debate Synopsis:
Romney said not to go to every state and promise billions of dollars of things.
Gingrich said well its important to know what the state wants to accomplish and what it needs to get there.
Romney said Gingrich called the Spanish Language the language of the Ghetto, in an advertisement that was officially endorsed
Gingrich said ( in so many words ) that every language will have some difficulty if they cannot accept English as the language of government
Romney said that he is proud of being successful but in the past several debates was somewhat apologetic, check the record on plagiarism its a big deal to some of us.
Gingrich said he balanced the budgets and America thrived during his tenure and when he helped the Reagan era. ( proven ).
Gingrich did in fact convert the Senate to a republican dominated facility during the tenure of a hugely successful democrat Bill Clinton.
The last major success of the economy was in the 90s and that was Gingrichs tenure.
Romney only lasted one term as governor, and has avoided that record.
Gingrich talked about the importance of space exploration for the confidence and success of American people, Romney said that if he and other businesses were presented with the plan to explore either mars or the moon he would fire the person asking. Even though Gingrich said he though private sources would be even better than Nasa and private sources would not ask businessmen for the money.
Gingrich talked about proposals to help the state of florida and Jacksonville and Romney presented not a one except that he would help people get jobs to afford houses ( too generic and not specific enough, likely just an empty promise ).
Gingrich said he is running so that in 50 years his grandchildren can be proud of the direction of the country, Romney said he has many grandchildren ( sounded like ownership which was not attractive )
Gingrich avoided eye contact to avoid intimidation, Romney used eye contact and his height to lord over Gingrich which may have hurt his ability to speak freely.
Good this debate is better quality, nice one CNN