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Aug 18, 2018
3 min

The Stacks: Boston Stacks Up at the WIG Demo Night!

The Boston Stack Joins Women in Games to Support Local Developers! Women in Games is a meetup group based in the Boston area dedicated to supporting women in the gaming industry. Their regular monthly meetings are a great place to learn about the local game developers, network with some leaders in the industry, and have a little fun while you’re doing it! As the name suggests, the purpose of the group is to focus on women in games, but it is not now nor has it never been a wo

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The Stacks: Boston Stacks Up at the WIG Demo Night!

Jul 3, 2018
3 min

The Stacks: Boston Stacks Up at Facebook Tech Tales

Facebook Cambridge Office Holds First Vetworking Tech Tales Night Over the past year, Facebook’s office in Cambridge has been striving to employ more veterans in their Engineering department. Stack-Up has been following this effort in the Greater Boston area since their Technical Sourcer Sarah first contacted the Boston Stack last June about their first Vetworking event. Since then, Facebook has grown the little get-together/networking event into something so large, it merite

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The Stacks: Boston Stacks Up at Facebook Tech Tales

Feb 4, 2018
1 min

The Stacks — Boston Stacks Up at the Balance Patch Cafe

Last weekend, the Boston Stack decided to try something new for a monthly event. With the opening of the Boston area’s first video game cafe, Co-Lead Hyperion organized a get-together for the Stack to get to know the managers, and to have a little gaming fun! Right across the street from the Babcock Street Green Line stop, the Balance Patch Cafe has over 50 desktops with access to hundreds of single and multiplayer titles from Pacman to PUBG. The cafe also has two VR sets, a

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The Stacks — Boston Stacks Up at the Balance Patch Cafe

Aug 2, 2017
1 min

The Stacks – Boston Stacks Up With Rock Band VR Devs!

Steve went into great detail about what the switch to VR would mean for Rock Band’s gameplay. In the older titles, the player follows musical cues through a series of lines shaped like the neck of a guitar. Hit the associated buttons at the proper time, and the player earns points. Miss the right “notes,” and the performance suffers. This format works well enough when the player’s vision is focused on one angle, but what happens when the player can turn their entire head arou

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The Stacks – Boston Stacks Up With Rock Band VR Devs!

Nov 18, 2016
1 min

the stacks a film night with the queens stack

The Queens Stack never ceases to amaze with the fantastic ideas they have for Stack gatherings. They always bring something interesting and unique to the Stacks! This time it was a film night featuring some in-depth discussion. Read on below to check in with the first-hand account! On November 4th, the Queens Stack Leaders opened their home for a screening of European animated films. The screening was curated by Eliska Decka, a Czech student of animated film. She is pursuing

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the stacks a film night with the queens stack

Dec 22, 2015
2 min

pittsburgh stacks a busy weekend

Operation Santa 2015 Pittsburgh, PA- DECEMBER 19th, 2015 The Pittsburgh Stack had an eventful weekend kicking it off with the Bridges Kids Club Operation Santa Military Christmas Carnival on Saturday. This was a family fun event sponsored by the Heroes Support Network and run by the Bridges Kids Club, an all-volunteer group of over 100 children ages 4-19 in the local Pittsburgh community. The event was open to Service Members from all branches of the Military and their famil

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pittsburgh stacks a busy weekend