Each workday morning I will be bringing you the latest events, articles and releases in the independent and mod development communities, as well as any mainstream news that seems pertinent.

Industry Articles:

• Gaming Addiction: Clearing The Air, Moving Forward - Writer and researcher Neils Clark looks at whether game design can influence healthy play, and what his MMO analysis has to say on the phenomenon.
  
• Sharing the Design - GameCareerGuide.com posted this article about how to begin working as a professional game designer; in particular, how taking ownership of key pieces of design early on can help newcomers learn the business efficiently.
• Jupiter One's Colwell Talks Music-Game Convergence - Gamasutra sat down with the band Jupiter One and discussed the increasing convergence of the music and video game industry.
  

Developer Events

• Epic Announces New 'Make Something Unreal' Mod Contest - Epic Games, Inc., the award-winning developer of multimillion-selling games and the world's leading game engine, Unreal Engine 3, today announced plans to follow up the original "$1 Million Make Something Unreal Contest" with an all new competition to include esteemed sponsor, Intel Corporation. Winnings exceed $1 million in value, and consist of one coveted Unreal Engine 3 license as a grand prize and other cash awards and prizes, including Intel® Software Development Products and Velocity Micro PCs based on the Intel® Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform with two Intel® Core™2 Extreme quad-core processors.
  

Game Releases

• Half-Life 2 Evolution v0.2 (Mod for Half-Life 2)
• No Logo Mod (Mod for C&C3: Kane's Wrath)
  

Tool Releases

• VTFEdit v1.2.5 (Texture Editor)
• Torque X 2.0 Academic License (Game Engine)
  

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