CHAPEL HILL -- The stereotype of video game players as young, brainy loners -- usually male -- no longer applies, two directors of game design companies told an audience during a panel discussion at UNC on Wednesday.

RALEIGH, N.C., Feb. 15, 2010 - The Triangle Game Initiative (TGI), a non-profit trade association for the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. interactive entertainment industry, has announced a partnership with C.H.A.T. (Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology), a digital arts and humanities festival scheduled for February 16-20, 2010 on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The festival will explore the ways digital technologies are transforming the practices of the arts and humanities, including how we learn, think, know, teach and express ourselves both as individuals and as communities.

North Carolina schools have a lot to offer according to a recent ranking of the Best Values in Public and Private Schools done by Kiplinger.com.

Conference Looks for Video Game Industry Experts to Drive Immersive Learning Exchange

RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 6, 2009 - The Triangle Game Conference (TGC) has announced its call for submissions to present panel, lecture and roundtable sessions at TGC 2010. The call for submissions begins today, November 6, 2009, and will close Friday, December 18, 2010.

TGC 2010 Registration Now Available at TriangleGameConference.com

RALEIGH, N.C., January 5, 2010 - The Triangle Game Conference (TGC) has announced registration is now available at www.TriangleGameConference.com for TGC 2010, the second annual summit for developers and professionals in the interactive entertainment and serious games industries. TGC returns this year on April 7-8, 2010, with more speakers, topics and more than twice as much space at the Raleigh Convention Center and Marriott City Center in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Triangle is home to numerous businesses that are part of the billion-dollar mobile app industry.

Join us for an All-Star panel featuring some of the area's most successful mobile app developers and service providers.

On Monday I attended an education technology conference-a few hundred people reviewing very simple education tools. On Wednesday I attended a military learning technology conference (I/ITSEC)-16,000 people experiencing sophisticated and realistic simulations of flying a fighter, piloting a battleship, and patrolling a village. US education and defense budgets are roughly the same size, but the Department of Defense spends 15 times as much on research and development and in a much more focused way. The DOD is a much better and more efficient learning system than the distributed K-12 'system.'

In hit TV crime drama show "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation," and its two spin-offs, the criminologists use the latest technology to solve grisly murders and other crimes.

Soon, real criminal investigation teams will be using videogame technology to help forensic scientists collaborate virtually to re-create what happened at the scene of the crime.

Organizers Collaborate to Fuel Video Game Industry Growth in North Carolina.

The Triangle Game Initiative (TGI), a non-profit trade association for the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. interactive entertainment industry and organizer of the Triangle Game Conference, has aligned with the Carolina Games Summit to serve as a conference partner, offering mutual support in conference activities and in advancing the North Carolina video game industry and community.

Starting Friday, November 27, gamers from Raleigh, NC will host a 1,000 song internet marathon from the "Rock Band" video game series to benefit Child's Play, a charity which donates toys, games, and books to children's hospitals worldwide.

Conference Looks for Video Game Industry Experts to Drive Immersive Learning Exchange

Favorite local bands will help celebrate development company's first release for the iPhone with a free concert. The software company has committed itself to using their success as a way to pull the local community together and to help those in need.

Join us at the 2009 Internet Summit November 4-5th held in the Raleigh Convention Center in downtown Raleigh, NC for a panel discussion featuring local industry leaders on "Gaming and Immersive Learning. Featured panelists include:

SPARKcon, an annual festival in the capital city designed to celebrate the Triangle's creative spirit, is adding the region's growing videogame industry to the mix this year.

Call the new effort GamingSPARK - and it should be fun with games, as well as emerging technology on display.

Just as Megan Wood hoped, last weekend's gamingSPARK brought a lot of attention to the Triangle's emerging video game industry.

Wood tells The Skinny that some 400 people participated in the various game and accessory-related events as well as a live tournament featuring Cary-based Epic Games' multi-million seller "Gears of War 2."