These Italian guards seem to take their job pretty seriously. I suppose watching over the Coppa del Mondo will do that to you. We are the same way with our customers’ information. We are working on a new casual online game soccer game launch with a partner and the issue of online privacy and kids once again came up. We make sure our entire team understands and appreciates the seriousness of privacy. When it comes to kids, it’s worth noting some additional points.

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We are really excited to announce that we will be handling the North American, South American and European live game operations for a great casual sports game called, “Goal or No Goal!” or “GONG!” for short. We signed this partnership a while ago but we have been keeping things under wraps until we had a better idea of the launch plans. Look for the game to go into closed beta in the next few weeks and hopefully commercially launch in the summer.

We are working with a great set of partners to bring this game to market including TOSE Software and Elephant Entertainment (now a division of THQ). The game was developed by TOSE Software’s Shanghai office. We couldn’t be more pleased with the development team’s enthusiasm and level of professionalism. Elephant Entertainment will be leading the publishing activities and they promise to make some noise about the game with those heavy elephant steps.

Be sure to check out www.gongonline.com to sign-up and watch for more announcements.

Taturnu Enu from Massively posed a question that comes up a lot inside game companies these days…should free/trial accounts get less support? This is a fun question to bring up at a team lunch. The gamer in you wants to say “hell no - if you’re game was developed correctly I wouldn’t need you’re help anyway” - while the wonderful capitalist side of you says “hell yes - i have to eat.”

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Andy just picked up a new batch of stickers. They look great.

Get one while they last. Limited edition. Stealthy. No URL…nothin. 100% Pure Sleepy.