| 11/2011 | SPSU's first CGDD graduate featured in the SPSU Magazine | |
| 10/7-9/2011 | SPSU presents to high school college and career fair and hosts suite party at SIEGE 2011 | |
| 8/9/2011 | The Atlanta Journal Constitution covers the CGDD program at SPSU with the article "Get your game on with degree in computer game design" | |
| 8/3/2011 | SPSU Welcomes AAMI group and hosts presentation | |
| 6/2011 | SPSU represented at the NSF Inspire-CT workshop in Daytona Beach, FL | |
| 2/1/2011 | SPSU is awarded an Honorable Mention in the final round of the Unity Great Education Givaway | |
| 1/31/2011 | SPSU's game jam event is featured on DEFCON:AWESOME and Marietta Patch. | |
| 1/28-30/2011 | SPSU hosts the first state-wide game jam in Georgia as part of the Global Game Jam 2011. With 124 officially-registered participants, the Georgia SPSU site was the 2nd largest in the US and the 8th largest in the world. You can see a video of the jam on youtube. |
| 10/18/2010 | SPSU's CGDD Program was one of only 20 first-round finalist in the Unity Great Education Giveaway and will submit a round-two proposal on incorporating Unity and the Google Nexus One technologies into our CGDD program | |
| 10/3/2010 | Team Hornets wins the Game Design Improv competition at SIEGE 2010; team members were Billy Olden, Will Moore, Carter Maddux, and Nick Mowry | |
| 10/1-3/2010 | SPSU well represented at SIEGE 2010, hosting an academic table, high school talks, and a suite party | |
| 9/2010 | Gaming in Georgia, SPSU and the CGDD degree are highlighted in EDGE magazine | |
| 9/10-12/2010 | SPSU hosts the second Georgia Fall Game Jam sponsored by 3DVIA, NVIDIA, and Chick-fil-A | |
| 9/2010 | SPSU's Center for Applied Gaming and Media Arts (CAGMA) selected to develop a virtual engineering strength of materials lab by the NSF. News featured in the SPSU's Hornet's Nest newspaper. | |
| 8/2010 | The Game Lab at SPSU expands into a new location and doubles in size. | |
| 8/18/2010 | SPSU CGDD3103 approach to game scripting featured in the IGDA Perspectives Newsletter | |
| 5/2/2010 | Games-for-learning STEM project is featured at the Marietta Schools AquaTech night at the Georgia Aquarium | |
| 4/24/2010 | SPSU's Game Lab hosts Girl Scouts in celebration of Earth Day - Ecological Games room | |
| 4/6/2010 | SPSU hosts colloquium on Game Engines by Dr. Jeff Chastine | |
| 3/2/2010 | SPSU's CGDD degree program highlighted in the March "Dean & Provost" magazine (page 6) by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. | |
| 3/2010 | SPSU represented at GDC and the GDC Expo Hall as part of the GGDA booth | |
| 3/24/2010 | Game lab hosts gaming/lan party for the SPSU ACM student chapter | |
| 3/8/2010 | SPSU's CGDD billboard makes Kotaku news | |
| 2/26/2010 | SPSU's game lab hosts 40 AVID students from McCleskey Middle School for environmental games for learning | |
| 2/17/2010 | SPSU's ACM student chapter hosts iPhone development talk by Greg Crisp | |
| 1/29-31/2010 | SPSU is a host site for the Global Game Jam | |
| 1/2010 | SPSU offers the first CGDD3103 (Application Extension and Scripting) and CGDD4003 (Digital Media and Interaction) courses |
| 12/20/2009 | SPSU's Game Design and Development degree mentioned in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's article on gaming in Georgia | |
| 12/18/2009 | SPSU mentioned in article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle concerning EA's possible opening in GA | |
| 12/10/2009 | SPSU ACM "Will It Blend" Party featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the MDJ Online | |
| 11/24/2009 | SPSU's collaboration with MCAA and TechMatters featured in the Marietta Daily Journal | |
| 10/15/2009 | SPSU's Game Hive welcomes MCAA students for a Game Field Trip | |
| 10/2-4/2009 | SPSU attends and recruits at the SIEGE 2009 conference and hosts a Suite Party to demo student games on Saturday night thanks to the Georgia Department of Economic Development | |
| 9/18-20/2009 | SPSU hosts the Georgia Fall Game Jam 2009 in coordination with Art Institute of Atlanta | |
| 8/2009 | SPSU to offer first CGDD course - CGDD2002, Fundamentals of Game Design | |
| 6/25/2009 | SPSU hosts visiting group from the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in game play and customization visit. | |
| 6/2009 | SPSU is a participant in the GGDA Academic Awareness Initiative at the GAPTA conference | |
| 5/28/2009 | Oceanography Simulation Workshop held between MCAA, TechMatters, and SPSU (with other regional visitors) | |
| 5/18/2009 | The Atlanta Business Chronicle features SPSU's new CGDD degree. | |
| 5/13/2009 | Articles concerning the Oceanography partnership and the new CGDD degree run in the Marietta Daily Journal and the Atlanta Journal and Constitution newspapers. | |
| 5/12/2009 | Board of Regents formally approves SPSU to offer the Bachelor of Science in Computer Game Design and Development. | |
| 3/3/2009 | Oceanography Simulation STEM game development project funded. | |
| 1/30/2009 |
SPSU participates in and is a host venue for the first annual Global Game Jam. |
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| 1/7/2009 | First XBox360 and XNA-focused Programming and Problem Solving 2 (CSE1302) course to be offered at SPSU. |
| 11/21/2008 | SPSU Game Lab hosts field-trip and visitors from Hillgrove High School (Cobb County) | |
| 10/27/2008 | SPSU premiers Game Lab promotional video | |
| 10/24/2008 | SPSU Game Lab hosts AVID students from McClesky Middle School | |
| 10/22/2008 | SPSU Game Lab hosts Gaming Social and Oceanography Ice-breaker with Marietta Center for Advanced Academics (MCAA) | |
| 10/3/2008 |
SPSU attends and recruits at the 2008 Southern Interactive Entertainment & Game Expo. |
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| 10/2/2008 |
The student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) hosts a talk entitled "Neo-Shamans: Computing as Indistinguishable from Magic" by Dr. Preston. |
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| 9/21/2008 |
Game initiatives and the upcoming Game Design and Development curriculum at SPSU are featured in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution newspaper. |
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| 9/2008 |
The Marietta Daily Journal features gaming activities at SPSU. |
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| 9/9/2008 |
The School of Computing and Software Engineering officially opened the game lab on SPSU campus. |
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| 8/29/2008 |
Preston and Karam named to the Technical Advisory Board for Walton High School's Computer Science Team and help with their planned game development focused CS class. |
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| 8/18/2008 |
The first XBox360 and XNA-focused Programming and Problem Solving 1 (CSE1301) course is offered at SPSU. Due to increased demand, two sections of this course are offered by Morrison and Preston. |