Now... this is some morning email. SoE announced at GDC in San Francisco yesterday, that they are offering scholarships and paid internships to lure more females into Game Design.

Full information isn't out yet, but basically, students enrolled in accredited universities or trade schools and the Art Institute schools can apply for this scholarship and the internships.

Read short coverage of the announcement here

Yes, it's true. Hello Kitty Online has opened Sanrio Town for Closed Beta sign ups.

It's cute overload!

I may or may not have blogged here about this phenomenon before, as the first pilot programme was at the Safeco (Baseball) field here in Seattle. So it was a local phenomenon.

What they did was to allow fans with DS devices to download software that allowed them to get stats and player info, watch extra videos, order food and drinks and interact with each other during games. This "Nintendo Fan Network" will remain exclusive to Seattle through 2008, but Nintendo's winter marketing plan includes a slate of baseball, golf and monster-truck sponsorships and events that will put the DS to use.

This article in Advertising Age teases us about this program but doesn't tell us diddly about how this will be implemented, since the Fan network will remain exclusive to Safeco field.

Hello Gamers, we're no longer the nerdy guy/gal in the basement. Guinness World Records has released the Gamer's Edition of this popular book of records. It launches tomorrow - Feb 8th - in the UK and Feb 11th in the US.

Highest scores... longest play... it's all there. Most colorful avatar... hmm... is that you, Ophelea?

NVIDIA today announced that they've will acquire AGEIA Technologies, maker of the PhysX software & graphics accelerator card.

Whoo! The AGEIA PhysX card has been on my hardware wish list for a little while and this is pretty exciting news to me as I begin to speculate... PhysX module on future NVidia graphics cards?

/speculate...