| LA Recording Musicians Attempt to Form New Guild
A group of recording musicians in Los Angeles is holding meetings and inviting recording musicians to join a new organization called the "Professional Musicians Guild" (PMG). Industry sources describe the venture as an attempt by a group of recording musicians in Los Angeles to create a new guild to cover video game scoring and offer contracts more beneficial to musicians than those offered by the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), the largest union representing musicians in North America. According to the membership application, the initial membership fee in the PMG is $100, and the agreement authorizes the PMG to "act as my collective bargaining representative with full power to execute collective bargaining agreements with employers governing terms and conditions of employment."A source close to the American Federation of Musicians told Film Music Magazine that the PMG represents an attempt by a group of Los Angeles recording musicians to decertify the AFM union's current jurisdiction over video game scoring agreements, apparently because the group of recording musicians disagrees with the current AFM contracts covering video game scoring.The formation of the PMG is only the latest in a long-running acrimonious relationship between recording musicians in Los Angeles and the AFM, however the formation of the PMG and the apparent attempt to decertify the AFM's jurisdiction over video game scoring represent a significant escalation of the conflict.
GameAccount Pulls off New Card Trick For 2007
Skills game site GameAccount.com has announced that it will host the 2007 Online Rummy World Championship.
The card game that acted as a practice ground for legendary WSOP Champion Stu Ungar and was made famous by screen legend James Bond in the movie Goldfinger is set for a revival. The game, that has been dubbed 'Thinking Man's Poker', is reportedly so easy to learn that it can be mastered in just 90 seconds.
GameAccount.com is the first global site to meet the needs of both amateur and professional gin players, having hosted over 100 million hands of gin rummy for stakes ranging from 1 to 1,000 per game. Every month, millions of pounds change hands between members of this growing community of keen gin players.
The 2007 tournament will take place this summer, with the prize fund being announced over the next few weeks.
GBA Attends Zoey 101
THQ has announced that today they shipped Zoey 101 for the Game Boy Advance all across North America. The game is based on the popular live-action television series of the same name on Nickelodeon. Players will be able to interact with everyone from the show while playing the game. The game will follow the storyline of Seasons one and two where players take the role of Zoey Brooks who is starting a new school-year at Pacific Coast Academy, a former all-boys school. Its up to Zoey to get the boys and girls to get along, and finish the year with the best bash the school has ever had. Through the game, you get to play an assortment of mini-games made up of different sports, scooter races, dance-offs, and more. Depending on how you play the game will effect the outcome as well with multiple endings available to provide plenty of hours of replay.
Xploder Launches Cheat Saves for Nintendo Wii
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Fox's humiliating new game show, Are You Smarter Than a 5 th Grader?
At the end of Tuesday's episode of American Idol, host Ryan Seacrest introduced a special guest from the studio audience—Jeff Foxworthy, presenter of Fox's new game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (Thursdays, 9 p.m. ET). Foxworthy confirmed that his contestants would indeed compete against a group of elementary-school students, and Seacrest elicited a representative question: How many sides does a trapezoid have? Seacrest, eager as usual to play the bimbo, affected an expression of glazed perplexity and redirected the question to Randy. The camera snatched a glimpse of the judges' table: Simon pitched forward and glistened as if admiring the new show's obvious breadth of demographic appeal. Paula had a hand at her temple and languidly flapped its fingers as she impatiently gazed into the near distance; the day's obligations fulfilled, she would not be troubling herself to envisage a trapezoid or to recollect what a side might be.
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