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Hands on with Flower and The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom at WIRED NextFest

I met with Kellee Santiago of thatgamecompany and Paul Bellezza of the P.B. Winterbottom team at WIRED Magazine's NextFest here in Chicago on Friday.  Both Kellee and Paul come out of the USC's Interactive Media graduate program where they designed and made games. 

Kellee, along with Jenova Chen, made a critical darling, flow, that was released on the PlayStation Network earlier this year.  She was showing off a demo level of Flower, that game's follow up, which will also be released on PSN early next year.  Paul was showing off The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom, which may be released on a next generation platform in the future. 

Read on for some thoughts on both titles.  I'll save my thoughts on downloadable games for consoles in a future post.

Dawdle at IgniteNYC

I was at IgniteNYC, the pre-event for Web 2.0 Expo NY, and there was a great cupcake decorating contest.  I was hoping I would be a finalist with my awesome NES controller cupcake, but alas, I did not make it to the finals.  Here's the photoset from the event, in kickass Fotoviewr embeddable goodness:

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Dawdle at Midway: Watching Motion Capture for MK vs. DC and Hands-On Impressions of a Post-Leipzig Build of the Game

Dawdle's President and CEO, Sachin Agarwal, was invited to Midway on Friday, September 12, to watch the final motion capture session of Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and get some hands-on time with the latest build of the game.  In fact, the build was so recent that they compiled it when he walked into the room.  Read on for a full rundown. And here's the Flickr set with notes.

Dawdle will be at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008!

Catch us at Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 - our co-founder, Sachin Agarwal, will have a full conference pass, so make sure you see the guy with a SkinIt Dawdle skin on his white MacBook!  If you're lucky, he may drop you some hints on some pretty big new developments coming to Dawdle.  And if you're super lucky, he may buy you a Yuengling. 

That's a Hockey Stick

In response to Randy Smythe, we decided to put together a quick visual graph of how our listings have grown by leaps and bounds over the last few months.  We want to thank all the Dawdlers for making us explode since we added Get It Now and Sell It Now to Dawdle.  We love paying more for server capacity to catch up with our users!  :)

You can help us grow even more by signing up for our affiliate programs - we're now live on the Google Affiliate Network.  We have a live datafeed and dozens of creatives for your use.  You can even Create Your Own Links to any page on the Dawdle site.  We also still have the Dawdle affiliate program on ShareASale if you prefer them.  (We only use Chicago-based companies for our affiliate stuff; we're an Illinois company through-and-through.)  And if you have any questions, just grab us at Affiliate Summit Social Media 2008 in New York or contact us at affiliates@dawdle.com