NYCGI Meet N' Drink: February 2012

A brief and informative look at the current state of traditional gaming (gambling) in New York.

Friendly reminder! This weekend the earth will be "Jamming", what will you be doing?

New York City based Happymonitor Games Studio recently announced their debut iOS game, Islands of Diamonds expected next month in the App Store.

Arkadium recently announced it has signed a strategic partnership to develop casual and social games on multiple platforms to be launched by Microsoft Studios. 

A U.S.-born game designer has been sentenced to death in Iran over charges that the CIA paid him to create games to sway public opinions on U.S. policies.

Avalanche Studios has announced the successful recruitment of dozens of new staff for its recently launched New York studio.

Happy New Year to all! Come kick off 2012 by heading out to Brooklyn and toasting some pints with other local NYC Devs!

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New York University has announced that the NYU Game Center will offer a new Masters of Fine Arts degree beginning in Fall 2012.  MFA students will explore games as a creative art form as they design and develop games within a context of rigorous scholarly study in the two-year program at the NYU Game Center.

There's a new social game developer in NYC and it's making quite a splash with its debut game WeTopia. Focused on charitable efforts Sojo Studios hopes to combine that good feeling you get when playing games with doing actual good in the real world.

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