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I’m pleased to announce that the group of 2009 IGDA scholars have started Game Developers Blog, an open blogging site for members of the industry to share their thoughts and expertise. Authors on the blog are award winning practicioners and scholars in the fields of game design, production, theory, management, and education (just to name a few). Industry professionals with an established track record of excellence are welcome to write for the blog; if interested email me for access at (dan at danrosenthal dot org).

Long time without an update!

In other news, I’ll be at GDC in San Francisco next week. Feel free to send me a message on twitter (@swatjester) to catch me!

Also, I’ll be receiving the IGDA’s GDC scholarship award on Tuesday night at GDC. If you’re an IGDA member, and you RSVP’d for the event you can catch me there.

I’ll be attending VGXPO in Philly next weekend, though I don’t have any speaking engagements planned. Also, I’ve recently written a two part exclusive preview of LotRO: The Mines of Moria over at Stratics, with over 80 exclusive screenshots. You can read the first part here.

Also, my comment on jurisdictional analysis and the harmful-effects doctrine in MMORPGs is almost finished, and the first completed draft should be done by Tuesday. Hopefully I’ll be seeing info on publishing by December or early January.

For day to day updates, catch me over at GamesLaw.

Interview with The Municipalist is now online as well as my NPR interview on Midday with Dan Rodricks. 

Some revamps to our network. I’m pleased to announce the creation of GamesLaw.net, my new project for analysis of the trends in video game law. Also, we’re finally going to do something with the wiki-lawyer.net domain, and officially move the Wikilaw blog onto its proper locations (wiki-lawyer.net for all Wiki related posts, GamesLaw.net for games related posts). This site will remain here but be getting a bit of an update and maybe a facelift.

Interviews with NBC and NPR now listed on the media page. Footage and transcripts to follow.

On June 21st from 1pm-2pm, I’ll be a guest on “Midday” on NPR in Baltimore, MD. Almost anyone in the Maryland area should be able to listen in. I’ll be taking call-in questions regarding Wikis and Wikimedia. More information as I get it.

Remember, if you have any questions, want to schedule me for an event or speaking engagement, or for consultancy, please send me an email.

Also, I’m looking to hire a web designer for a new site project that I have. If you are good at making web 2.0 style interfaces in css, let me know.

I’ll be doing a panel discussion on “Legal Issues in Contemporary Video Games” at Penny Arcade Expo (PAX 2008). My panel will be at the last day of the expo, Sunday, at 3pm. More info to come as I get it.

Also, I may be doing a lecture for the GEEX Show in Salt Lake City.  More details on that to come.

New section on the Media/Press page: Congressional Testimony. Check it out and listen to the linked audio recording of Dan’s email to Patrick Campbell read before the U.S. House of Representatives Veteran Affairs Committee!