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GameHorizon feedback #gh09

July 9, 2009

My impressions I thought I should write up my thoughts re my recent attendence at GameHorizon: It seems pretty clear that the Computer Games industry is a major success story Apparently making more money than film & music [although all I can find on Google are rather dodgy get-rich-quick schemes which refer to this…!] What [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #8: ‘Round Up’ & Closing Comments

June 24, 2009

‘Round Up’ – Ian Livingstone Closing Comments – Carri Cunliffe GameHorizon #8: ‘Round Up’ & Closing Comments Technorati Tags: virtual worlds,metaverse,north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license.

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GameHorizon live-blog #7: ‘Marking your self-published IP’; ‘Games driving other Interactive Content’;‘Heavy Rain’

June 24, 2009

Panel Discussion: ‘Game Exposure – The naked truth about marketing your self published IP’ Sponsored in partnership by BAFTA and Northern Film + Media. Chaired by Charles Cecil, MD of Revolution Software with Martyn Brown (Development Director, Team 17), Mark Morris (Managing Director, Introversion), Paul Farley (Managing Director, Tag Games). ‘How games can be used [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #6: ‘Future of Digital Distribution’; ‘Future Technologies’; ‘PlayStation Home’

June 24, 2009

‘Separating Fact from Fiction: the Future of Digital Distribution’ Roger Walkden, CEO, AWOMO ‘Future Technologies’ Steve Clayton, Microsoft ‘Development Opportunities in PlayStation Home’ Peter Edward, Director, PlayStation Home Platform Group UPDATE – I’m publishing the first bit of this session as a bulleted list, as the CIL service was offline to begin with… ‘Separating Fact [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #4: ‘Survival of the fittest’; & ‘next Evolution in casual MMOPGs’

June 23, 2009

Panel discussion: ‘Survival of the fittest’ Chaired by Jamil Moledina (Outreach Director, EA Partners, Electronic Arts) with Darren Jobling (Business Development Director, Eutechnyx), Mark Rein (Vice President, Epic Games), Conor Sheridan (FX Dealer Manager, Custom House), Robert Bond (Head of IP, Technology and Commercial, Speechly Bircham), Alex Carter-Silk (Partner, IP, Technology and Commercial, Speechly Bircham) [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #3: ‘Games are entering a new dimension’; & ’8 To be Great’

June 23, 2009

Games are entering a new dimension; 3D Stereoscopic Gaming on the console’ Andrew Oliver, CTO and Co-founder, Blitz Games Studios ’8 To be Great – The 8 traits that lead to great success’ Richard St John, Success Analyst & Author of 8 To Be Great   GameHorizon live-blog #3: ‘Games are entering a new dimension’; [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #2: The best things in life are free

June 23, 2009

‘The best things in life are free’ Rick Gibson, Games Investor: How freemium is transforming the world of online games Panel discussion: ‘The best things in life are free’ Chaired by Rick Gibson (Games Investor) with David Jones (Creative Director and CEO,Realtime Worlds), Sarah Bryan (Director of Production, Jolt), Paul Mayze (CEO, Mounmental Games), Simon [...]

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GameHorizon live-blog #1: Welcome; Introduction; & Session 1 on persistent online games

June 23, 2009

Welcome to GameHorizon Conference Carri Cunliffe, Conference Director Introduction Ian Livingstone – Host and Life President of Eidos Session 1: ‘Building a persistent online game, and everything that goes with it’ David Jones, CEO and Creative Director, Realtime Worlds. GameHorizon: Building a persistent online game, and everything that goes with it Technorati Tags: metaverse,technology,north east [...]

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SCL at GameHorizon conference

June 22, 2009

If you’re looking for the live-blog sessions I’m doing at the GameHorizon conference, use the info in these boxes to tune in on whichever session is live (or passed). More info to be had on live-blogging etc. via this post. Technorati Tags: virtual worlds,metaverse,north east england,technology,interesting,ideas,gateshead,gamehorizon,games,business This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution [...]

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