After a one year holiday, the french were partying in style again at Le Fresnoy, the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, in Tourcoing!

The second installment of the State Of The Art party was held from 23rd till 25th of January, and now you can ofcourse find the releases and official results in our party archive.

Okay, in Finland the start of a new party-year was made, and they did it in an alternative way with the 5th edition of The Alternative Party.

Slowly the releases are being uploaded and eventually they will all be available for download in our party archive.

While browsing the scene.org weblogs I found some interesting pages that linked to scene.org the past month:

• TT-Hardware (french)
• Hardware-Mag.de (german)
• Computer Base (german)
• PC INpact (french)
• Wxperience.de (german)

Looks like intros are the newest benchmarking hype, so 3dMark has some competition now :) Anyhow, good to see people outside the demoscene are enjoying these cool prods too

Today, a big step was made towards cooperation between demoscene portals: the introduction of SceneID. SceneID is a global userdatabase that is shared among websites! At the moment the only participants of this project are Pouet.net and Scene.org, but we hope this will grow in the future so we will have one SceneID shared with all demoscene portals. Many thanks go out to Melwyn for coming up with the idea and actually implementing it!

Note: If you already had a Pouet account, you will notice that this account has now been converted to a SceneID account, so if this is the case you can immediatly log in and use it.

Also this new year brings a cool new feature to the Scene.org site: a full discussion system which allows you to discuss the news items, polls and even files in the archive (look for the small [discuss] links)! The same system is also used in our new webforums, that can be used to get in touch with fellow sceners and exchange idea's and oppinions.

A happy new year to all of you from the entire Scene.org staff!

Congratulations to ACiD for releasing their 100th artpack today! 2004 really started of with a bit bang it seems: 455MB of cool electronic art! You can download the big zipfile or go to the acid directory and download the pack in separate rar files.

On a sadder note the website says that ACiD-100 will be the final artpack of the group.. .. I'll miss you guys, because the first thing I remember when I dialed my first BBS back in the good ole days was a bitching ACiD ansi logo which opened the door to the demoscene for me! The best of luck to you guys!

• Awards gala opening video (video edited or realtime rendered show of 2-5 minutes).
• Awards gala background videos (pre-edited video or realtime software for creating the backgrounds)
• 2d designer / artist participating in creating general Awards related content and the website.

• Chance to work with a motivated and talented team.
• A free entrance to Breakpoint 2004 party and the Scene.org Awards gala (and the after-party :).