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The LA Games Conference, held in Hollywood, was a great event. I had 10 key takeaways from the show. If you want to learn more, click through to see the video.

1. The strong financial performance of the game industry continues despite the bad economy
2. The rise of free to play - see FreeRealms.com as an example
3. The power of virtual currency, goods, commerce to monetize play and turn communities into economies (Got to wonder when will Facebook and Myspace figure this out?)
4. Apple doubled the mobile games market almost overnight
5. Phones will become one of the interfaces for games
6. Mobile applications are emerging as a new ad unit
7. The mobile game/iPhone application market is creating a huge merchandising problem
8. Integration of games/real world - See Nolan Bushnell
9. Rise of electronic Distribution - Steam
10. Emergence of cloud based distribution - Onlive

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1. The strong financial performance of the game industry continues despite the bad economy
2. The rise of free to play – see FreeRealms.com as an example
3. The power of virtual currency, goods, commerce to monetize play and turn communities into economies (Got to wonder when will Facebook and Myspace figure this out?)
4. Apple doubled the mobile games market almost overnight
5. Phones will become one of the interfaces for games
6. Mobile applications are emerging as a new ad unit
7. The mobile game/iPhone application market is creating a huge merchandising problem
8. Integration of games/real world – See Nolan Bushnell
9. Rise of electronic Distribution – Steam
10. Emergence of cloud based distribution – Onlive

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