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	<title>Vancity Allie - the blog of a Vancouver girl who lives and breathes the West Coast &#187; video game industry</title>
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		<title>LIVING IN THE BUBBLE</title>
		<link>http://www.vancityallie.com/2009/03/04/living-in-the-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems to me lately that we&#8217;re all living in a little bubble. In Vancouver. A Vancouver bubble. When is the economy really going to hit us? People have been talking about the bad economy, but how much has it really affected us? Yes &#8212; it&#8217;s true, real estate prices are dropping. But not that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CROSSROADS</title>
		<link>http://www.vancityallie.com/2009/02/02/crossroads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize I haven&#8217;t updated my blog in about a week, but I have a pretty good reason. Last Tuesday, January 27th, the video game studio I work for, Humanature Studios (Nexon Publishing North America), closed down and all employees were let go. Fortunately, I had known for a few weeks that this was going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POST IN WAITING</title>
		<link>http://www.vancityallie.com/2009/01/22/post-in-waiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gears of War]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It does seem like there&#8217;s a lot of waiting these days. I have some somewhat significant (bad and good) personal news to share, but it&#8217;s going to have to wait a bit. My photography portfolio book finally arrived and I&#8217;m so excited to see it. I can&#8217;t wait to get home to see how it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO GAME COMPANIES THE BEST TO WORK FOR IN BC?</title>
		<link>http://www.vancityallie.com/2008/12/01/video-game-companies-the-best-to-work-for-in-bc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The video game company I work for recently won a Best Company to Work for in BC 2008 award. The list, published by BC Business Magazine, celebrates the Top 20 companies in BC whose employees have rated them the highest. The list is broken into the 10 companies with more than 100 employees, and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO GAME LAYOFFS, FOREVER FAITHFUL CANUCKS, AND KAMAKURA JAPAN</title>
		<link>http://www.vancityallie.com/2008/11/07/video-game-layoffs-forever-faithful-canucks-and-kamakura-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel so much better today. As many people have been blogging about lately, there&#8217;s something about November that makes us feel down and maybe on edge. I&#8217;ve been thinking about a lot lately, and have had to come to terms (again) with who I am and the people I want to surround myself with. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAPPY HALLOWEEN! (AND THE NOT-SO-HAPPY VANCOUVER VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY)</title>
		<link>http://www.vancityallie.com/2008/10/31/happy-halloween-and-the-not-so-happy-vancouver-video-game-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Halloween for work, I decided to dress up as Trevor Linden, campaigning to be Mayor. Trevor Linden has always been my favourite Canucks player. Check my previous post on the Canucks, for a picture of when I met Trevor I have a great &#8220;Linden for Mayor&#8221; t-shirt that I was holding up all day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IF YOU WORK IN THE GAME INDUSTRY, YOU HAVE TO CHECK THIS OUT</title>
		<link>http://www.vancityallie.com/2008/10/06/if-you-work-in-the-game-industry-you-have-to-check-this-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vancityallie.com/2008/10/06/if-you-work-in-the-game-industry-you-have-to-check-this-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vancityallie.com/?p=82</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you work in the video game industry, or if you even love art or sketching, you absolutely have to check this out. ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo. ILoveSketch is an amazing piece of technology for tablets (like Wacom) created by some individuals at the University of Toronto that is designed to create an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VANCOUVER&#8217;S VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY AND THE SILVER LINING IN THINGS</title>
		<link>http://www.vancityallie.com/2008/09/25/vancouvers-video-game-industry-and-the-silver-lining-in-things/</link>
		<comments>http://www.vancityallie.com/2008/09/25/vancouvers-video-game-industry-and-the-silver-lining-in-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.vancityallie.com/?p=34</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to be living and working in Vancouver in the video game industry, consider yourself very lucky. Not only have you scored a sweet job that&#8217;s fun and challenging, but you&#8217;ve become part of the small business workforce in BC. Anyone moving to BC from other provinces will tell you how hard it [...]]]></description>
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