The NLGD Foundation is a European cross-disciplinary platform, the European hub to synergy, vision and inspiration in the games industry. The main goal of the NLGD Foundation is to stimulate the Dutch games industry and to position this industry internationally. In order to accomplish this, the NLGD Foundation offers room to all disciplines within the games industry that work either directly or indirectly with serious- or entertainment games.

Seit Montag läuft auf der Games Developer Conference in San Francisco der IGF-Award, ein Festival für "Independent Games". Die Kandidaten für die Preise stehen nun fest und können im Bereich "Audience Award" per Abstimmung mit-entschieden werden. http://www.igf.com/audience.php

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What is DreamHack?
DreamHack is the world's largest LAN-party, demoparty and computer festival! Last winter we checked in 10,638 people!!
DreamHack is focused on everything you can do with computers: a lot of gaming and communication. Programming, designing, music composing and whatever you can imagine! We organize a lot of large game tournaments.
DreamHack is filled with activities and surprises.