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New Speakers Announced

We are very pleased to announce we have some amazing additions to speaker lineup. We will be announcing more speakers and sessions over the coming months, so stay tuned for the complete list.

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John DeMarheriti

John DeMargheriti
Chief Executive Officer, BigWorld

After being heavily involved in the computer game development industry through his own games studios, not for profit organizations and associations for over 20 years, John saw an opportunity within the online game market for a definitive MMOG middleware solution. His studio shifted their focus into developing the multi award winning BigWorld Technology which he later [2002] spun out into a Middleware Company - BigWorld Pty Ltd.

Eric Goldman

Eric Goldman
Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law

Eric Goldman is an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the High Tech Law Institute at Santa Clara University School of Law. Before he became a full-time academic, he practiced Internet law for 8 years in the Silicon Valley. He teaches Cyberspace Law and Intellectual Property, and his research focuses on Internet and marketing law topics such as search engines, spam and user-generated content. He blogs on Internet law topics at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog.

Troy Hewitt

Troy Hewitt
Director, Community Relations, Flying Lab Software

Troy Hewitt has 7 years of game and game-related career experience, having begun his career as a News Manager and freelance writer for gaming news sites. He worked on The Matrix Online as the Community Manager before becoming the Live Events Lead, where he created live events within the game and managed a team of writers and 'digital actors' in the delivery of custom content to the players. As Director of Community Relations at Flying Lab Software, Troy serves as the first line of contact for fan relations, 3rd party sites, and convention presence as well as scheduling and oversight for all media requests related to staff interviews, article requests, and the creation and distribution of Pirates of the Burning Sea related media

Hermann Peterscheck

Hermann Peterscheck
Producer, NetDevil

Hermann Peterscheck was a programmer and eventual Project Lead on AutoAssault and is now a Producer at NetDevil. He has been an avid gamer all his life and has wanted to make games since his dad brought home a TI99-4A. Hermann has been with NetDevil since 2002.

Scott G. Warner

Scott G. Warner
Owner, Garvey Schubert Barer

Scott leads the intellectual property and technology group at GSB. He has worked with game companies for more than 15 years, covering all aspects of game development and distribution for game companies in the pc, console, casual, downloadable, and mmog space. During this period he has worked with game companies in the US, Canada, Germany, Australia, China, Korea and Taiwan on deals to develop and distribute games domestically and internationally through most major channels and publishers. Scott is a regular speaker at DigiPen and has been recognized as a "Super Lawyer" and one of Washington's Most Amazing Lawyers by Washington CEO Magazine in 2006.


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Industry Highlights

GameStrata Launches, Offers Online Gamer Statistics

GameStrata, a new game statistic tracking and social site, has just launched into a (semi-)public status. Players can use the free service to keep track of a range of quantifiable game performance details. We're not quite sure what to make of the service, since an Xbox Live Gamertag does nearly the same thing on a platform basis, albeit Xbox only. »

Article on Joystiq


Tiscali Users Suffer More Online Gaming Woes

Customers signed up to internet service provider (ISP) Tiscali are experiencing a range of problems playing games online. According to forum posts on European telecommunication firm Tiscali’s website, broadband customers are facing numerous problems when it comes to online gaming, ranging from lag-inducing drops in connection speed to a common inability to commence online gaming at all. The forum posts, which are mainly complaints and pleas for updates from the ISP, run for 41 pages. »

Article on NextGeneration


PlayStation 3's Virtual Environment Undergoes Look-and-Feel Alterations

Sony's forthcoming PlayStation Home platform has undergone key changes in the last few months as a result of feedback from users currently engaged in its beta test. The virtual world environment, first shown to the public in 2006, has had significant changes made to Home Square and the entrance points to other areas, as well as other places such as the Theatre. New screens of a recent build of Home, shown to the audience by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe's John Venables and Ron Festejo in a session at Imagina 08, demonstrated the new look of what will be every user's first view of the world. »

Full story on gamesindustry.biz


NetEase Rumored to Operate Starcraft Online in China

China's leading online game operator Netease.com is likely to make its first step on being licensed to operate overseas online games in the near future. Caijing Magazine reported that the first foreign online game to be operated by Netease, which used to rely on independent R&D, will be Starcraft Online, developed by US-based Blizzard, quoting an industry insider as saying. Netease CEO Ding Lei didn't confirm the market saying, adding that the company is observing many online games and has not signed any formal license contract. »

Story on Trading Markets


MIT's Jenkins on Social Responsibility in China's Gaming Culture

Henry Jenkins, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who is perhaps academia's leading fanboy, spent part of January in Shanghai and has been posting observations on his blog. Jenkins was attending the International Games and Learning Forum, organized by MIT and Beijing University. There, the focus was on "serious games," those that might potentially be used to promote learning. His most frequently repeated observation was that, while U.S. experts on game learning tend to focus on pedagogy in game play, the Chinese experts he heard from focused mostly on creating historically accurate spaces for games to take place in. »

Article on CNET


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