<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Games @ dee-ann.blog-city.com</title><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Games) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 dee-ann.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:33:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Games @ dee-ann.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Civilization Revolution: Game of the week brittle networking</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/civilization_revolution_game_of_the_week_brittle_networking.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/civilization_revolution_game_of_the_week_brittle_networking.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=civilization%5Frevolution%5Fgame%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fweek%5Fbrittle%5Fnetworking</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Civilization Revolution offers a feature they call &quot;Game of the week.&quot; Each week they pick a civilization for the players to be, and a map, and everyone plays the same game with their scores going up onto the great leaderboard in the sky. I]]></description><category>ps3</category><category>civilization</category><category>games</category><category>networking</category></item><item><title>Finding console games when you live in a small town</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/finding_console_games_when_you_live_in_a_small_town.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/finding_console_games_when_you_live_in_a_small_town.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:28:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=finding%5Fconsole%5Fgames%5Fwhen%5Fyou%5Flive%5Fin%5Fa%5Fsmall%5Ftown</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I used to avoid the Civilization games, because so many people I knew were completely obsessed with them and played constantly. However, the FreeCiv game in Linux finally sucked me in. After a few years of playing that on and off, I find myself repea]]></description><category>ps3</category><category>civilization</category><category>games</category></item><item><title>Games: Moving Desktop Adoption</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/games_moving_desktop_adoption.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/games_moving_desktop_adoption.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 09:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=games%5Fmoving%5Fdesktop%5Fadoption</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Vikas Gupta, CEO & President of Transgaming Technologies, makes an excellent case on why games need to be taken more seriously under Linux.]]></description><category>transgaming</category><category>cedega</category><category>linux article</category><category>linux</category><category>linux desktop</category><category>winex</category><category>linux games</category></item><item><title>I Rock</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/i_rock.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/i_rock.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Frock</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Have you ever ever finished something and thought it worked out so well that you truly rock?]]></description></item><item><title>New WIGI Conference Coming Up - San Francisco</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/new_wigi_conference_coming_up__san_francisco.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/new_wigi_conference_coming_up__san_francisco.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Fwigi%5Fconference%5Fcoming%5Fup%5F%5Fsan%5Ffrancisco</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Those of you who follow my blog might have read my notes from the 2005 WIGI conference in Seattle. This was an excellent and informative gathering for anyone who wants to get into games, not just women. The next one is on February 18 in San Francisco]]></description></item><item><title>Game Controllers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/game_controllers.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/game_controllers.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 05:27:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=game%5Fcontrollers</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you were going to purchase a game controller for use with Linux, what would it be?]]></description></item><item><title>WIGI Conference Notes TOC</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_toc.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_toc.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wigi%5Fconference%5Fnotes%5Ftoc</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For your convenience, I decided to make a quick page that points to each of the five part series on the Women in Games International conference I attended in 2005.]]></description></item><item><title>WIGI Conference Notes Part 5 - The Executive Perspective</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_5__the_executive_perspective.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_5__the_executive_perspective.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:40:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wigi%5Fconference%5Fnotes%5Fpart%5F5%5F%5Fthe%5Fexecutive%5Fperspective</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is in some ways a "higher level" talk in that these are high level executives sharing their thoughts and experiences. It was a nice way to end the day, kind of looking at the future and other aspects of the industry.]]></description></item><item><title>Attention Linux Gamers</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/attention_linux_gamers.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/attention_linux_gamers.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:41:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=attention%5Flinux%5Fgamers</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ryan Gordon, otherwise known as Icculus, has posted an announcement warning that from now on he's going to be targeting newish versions of glibc for his game ports.]]></description></item><item><title>WIGI Conference Notes Part 4 - The Ultimate Challenge, Balacing Work and Personal Life</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_4__the_ultimate_challenge_balacin.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_4__the_ultimate_challenge_balacin.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wigi%5Fconference%5Fnotes%5Fpart%5F4%5F%5Fthe%5Fultimate%5Fchallenge%5Fbalacin</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I mentioned before, the game industry has a higher employee turnover even than professional sports. This panel covered both the reasons for this and potential solutions.]]></description></item><item><title>Article: &quot;Video game industry needs to be more creative, says veteran developer&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/article_video_game_industry_needs_to_be_more_creative_says_v.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/article_video_game_industry_needs_to_be_more_creative_says_v.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 03:05:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=article%5Fvideo%5Fgame%5Findustry%5Fneeds%5Fto%5Fbe%5Fmore%5Fcreative%5Fsays%5Fv</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This article touches on many of the points I've been mentioning in my series of notes from the WIGI conference:Video game industry needs to be more creative, says veteran developerI do think maybe the new, small side of the game market with mobile ga]]></description></item><item><title>WIGI Conference Notes Part 3 - An Array of Career Options</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_3__an_array_of_career_options.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_3__an_array_of_career_options.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wigi%5Fconference%5Fnotes%5Fpart%5F3%5F%5Fan%5Farray%5Fof%5Fcareer%5Foptions</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This seminar focused on the longer term, the types of things that people in the various career tracks should be good at and the type of work they do.]]></description></item><item><title>WIGI Conference Notes Part 2 - Breaking In: How to Acquire the Skills and Get that First Job</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_2__breaking_in_how_to_acquire_the.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_2__breaking_in_how_to_acquire_the.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wigi%5Fconference%5Fnotes%5Fpart%5F2%5F%5Fbreaking%5Fin%5Fhow%5Fto%5Facquire%5Fthe</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There are a number of ways to break down my notes here since they moved up and down the panel. Since you, dear reader, are likely interested in just one or maybe two particular types of work within the game industry, I'm going to break them down by t]]></description></item><item><title>WIGI Conference Notes Part 1 - Keynote on &quot;Inclusiveness&quot;</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_1__keynote_on_inclusiveness.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/wigi_conference_notes_part_1__keynote_on_inclusiveness.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=wigi%5Fconference%5Fnotes%5Fpart%5F1%5F%5Fkeynote%5Fon%5Finclusiveness</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So, on September 10, almost a month ago now, I went down to Microsoft's Redmond, WA campus to attend the Women in Games International summit. I took a lot of notes and this post is the first in a series I'll do here on my blog about what I learned.]]></description></item><item><title>Article: Gaming Open Source</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/article_gaming_open_source.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/article_gaming_open_source.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=article%5Fgaming%5Fopen%5Fsource</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I mentioned attending the WIGI conference in a previous entry, and have been waiting for the resulting article to go up before proceeding with my little series on breaking into games. It's now up, check out Gaming Open Source to take a look at where]]></description></item><item><title>Breaking Into the Game Industry</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/breaking_into_the_game_industry.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/breaking_into_the_game_industry.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=breaking%5Finto%5Fthe%5Fgame%5Findustry</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I attended a Women in Games International conference recently and ended up taking quite copious notes, way more than I could use for the article I was working on. I figure I'll do a series of posts here on my blog with the rest.]]></description></item><item><title>Quake III code open sourced under GPL</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/quake_iii_code_open_sourced_under_gpl.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/quake_iii_code_open_sourced_under_gpl.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=quake%5Fiii%5Fcode%5Fopen%5Fsourced%5Funder%5Fgpl</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Following in Id Software's tradition of releasing the source code to its older games under the GPL, the code to Quake III Arena and Quake III Team Arena is now available for download.]]></description></item><item><title>World of Warcraft to Doom III</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/world_of_warcraft_to_doom_iii.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/world_of_warcraft_to_doom_iii.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2005 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=world%5Fof%5Fwarcraft%5Fto%5Fdoom%5Fiii</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've still got Cedega running World of Warcraft rather nicely, and my husband's experiments have finally turned fruitful. Since he has a much newer ATI card than I do, it was worth his while to track down the new 2.6 ATI drivers. He had to do some se]]></description></item><item><title>Cedega and World of Warcraft - Addendum</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/cedega_and_world_of_warcraft__addendum.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/cedega_and_world_of_warcraft__addendum.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cedega%5Fand%5Fworld%5Fof%5Fwarcraft%5F%5Faddendum</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I've got WoW playing much better now! The crash every time I entered a building was the well-known &quot;mini map bug&quot; (the little local area map up in the corner has to change to the interior map when you enter the building, so if the map break]]></description></item><item><title>Cedega and World of Warcraft</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/cedega_and_world_of_warcraft.htm</guid><link>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/cedega_and_world_of_warcraft.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2005 07:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cedega%5Fand%5Fworld%5Fof%5Fwarcraft</comments><dc:creator>Dee-Ann LeBlanc</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When you're me and the spouse expresses interest in no longer dual booting, and instead running World of Warcraft under Cedega since it's supposed to be possible, you end up in one of those &quot;I guess I can take a break from my work and forgo slee]]></description></item></channel></rss>