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	<description>An American Game Designer in Shanghai</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Best Art Direction&#8221; for Alice: Madness Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:34:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alice Sequel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45661741#45661741">MSNBC Tech</a> has awarded <a href="http://www.ea.com/alice">Alice: Madness Returns</a> a "Best Art Direction" award for 2011. Alice had some serious competition for the honor, going up against some of the year's biggest and most beautiful games.]]></description>
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		<title>BigHead BASH Gameplay Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BigHead BASH]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first official gameplay trailer from Spicy Horse's upcoming online action game, BigHead BASH! The game just went into Closed Beta, which you can sign up for at the BHB Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/bigheadbash" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/bigheadbash</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;BigHead BASH&#8221; Launching Soon!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/11/10/bighead-bash-launching-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[BigHead BASH]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BHB is an action oriented, social online game with virtual items. Set in a toy store, the game revolves around side-on multi-player shooting matches. Players purchase toys and weapons from the shop, fight them, collect them and swap them.]]></description>
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		<title>Skype Home &#8211; Clickoff!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/08/29/skype-home-clickoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're annoyed by Skype Home and looking for a way to get rid of it - I'd highly recommend ClickOff. And if the geniuses at Skype find a way around it - THEN it's uninstall time. 
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		<title>An End of Consoles</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/07/11/an-end-of-consoles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[big games]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/?p=1133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[...in the not too distant future our mobile devices become everything-devices, able to serve as workstations, play-stations, translators, phones and more.]]></description>
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		<title>Pitching to Angel Investors on TV</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/06/14/pitching-to-angel-investors-on-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 23:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just read on <a href="http://sgentrepreneurs.com/news-stop/2011/06/08/pitching-to-angels-on-tv-with-the-angels-gate/">sgEntrepreneurs</a> that our friends over at <a href="http://www.vickersfinancial.com/">Vickers Capital Group</a> are involved with a cool new TV program called "<a href="http://theangelsgate.com/">The Angel's Gate</a>". The premise is simple: Entrepreneurs are given a chance to pitch their dream to a group of Asia's most successful investors. ]]></description>
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		<title>Spicy Horse Gallops in a New Direction</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/05/16/spicy-horse-gallops-in-a-new-direction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/05/16/spicy-horse-gallops-in-a-new-direction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 03:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free to play]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian Nutt over at Gamasutra covered the <a href="http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/34638/American_McGees_Spicy_Horse_Gets_3M_Funding_Signs_PopCap_Deal.php">initial announcement</a> of Spicy Horse Games' new business and development direction. ]]></description>
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		<title>Outerlight and Indie Development</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2011/01/10/outerlight-and-indie-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 01:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bloody good time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[game development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading an excellent interview with independent game developer Outerlight&#8217;s co-founder, Chris Peck. It tells the exciting, then sad story of an indie development team struggling to keep their head above water while maintaining their creative core and staying true to the reasons they got into game development to begin with. An excerpt from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bigger Budgets != More Quality</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/12/01/bigger-budgets-more-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/12/01/bigger-budgets-more-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>American</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alice Sequel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read on gi.biz today of an interview with Romuald Capron, COO at Arkane Studios of his views on budgets and team size as they relate to the creation of quality games. He says of smaller teams and outsourcing, &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a good way to maintain reasonable budgets, and I think a lot of companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patience, Grasshoppers</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/10/25/patience-grasshoppers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americanmcgee.com/wordpress/2010/10/25/patience-grasshoppers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lilith70</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re going to be tweaking the theme here in a bit, and it may take a little while. Please refrain from fussing about broken links or weird spacing until we&#8217;re all done. Actually&#8230; refrain from doing it then, too.]]></description>
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