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August 2007

Chapter Meeting - Tuesday, August 28th at 7pm

Submitted by TronsterHartley on Thu, 2007/08/16 - 15:53

Tuesday, August 28th, the Baltimore chapter of the IGDA will be having our next meeting. This will be a "summer house cleaning" and social time. If you have an item you would like to tack onto the agenda, please contact Jonathan Hamel, our chapter president.

Once again we will be meeting at the Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge in Cockeysville starting at 7pm:

Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge
9926 York Rd
Cockeysville, MD 21030
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This meeting is open to everyone, but attendees are encouraged to sign up as IGDA members.

New Studio in Hunt Valley

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2007/08/03 - 14:43

Let's all welcome ZeniMax Online to our growing community of studios in Hunt Valley.

Being a booster for the Hunt Valley area, I have to re-post, verbatim, a part of Matt Firor's recent interview about the new studio:

Name three great things about Hunt Valley, MD

First and foremost is location. It's close to Baltimore and Washington, yet is in an easily-affordable area close to Maryland horse country and rural Pennsylvania. You can hike in Loch Raven Reservoir in the afternoon and drive downtown to see a show at the trendy 8×10 club in Federal Hill, Baltimore in the evening. Second is the game development and sci-fi/fantasy history of the area. Microprose was founded in Hunt Valley and many of the studios in the area are offshoots from that major early industry player. The Balticon Science Fiction and Fantasy convention is an annual rite for many Baltimore-area game developers, which has been held in Hunt Valley for years - the first Balticon was way back in 1967. Third, it’s the future home of ZeniMax Online Studios!

You can read the whole interview here.