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| First Speakers Announced for GCDC 2007 The GC Developers Conference (GCDC) has announced the first speakers for this year's program, with Julian Eggebrecht of Factor 5 confirmed as the opening keynote. GCDC is Europe's most important platform for developers and takes place at the Leipziger Messe August 20-22, 2007. Julian Eggebrecht (USA), Factor 5's president and lead director/producer, made his last appearance as a speaker at GCDC in 2005. Currently, Julian is working on several next-generation titles, including the PlayStation 3 exclusive Lair. His work includes the Turrican line of games and the multi-million selling Star Wars: Rogue Squadron series. At least year's GCDC, Peter Molyneux (United Kingdom), President of Lionhead studios, gave exciting insights into the developing process of next-gen-games. This year he has planned to give a retrospective on the classical games from Lionhead Studios. The international speaker line-up includes: - Jason Manley, Massive Black (USA); - Christopher Schmitz, 10Tacle Studios (Germany); - Jennifer MacLean, Comcast Interactive Media (USA); - Dr. Michael Wimmer, The University of Vienna (Austria); - Alexander Fernandez, Streamline Studios (The Netherlands); - Cindy Armstrong, Webzen (USA); - Amir Taaki, Crystalspace (Finland); - Jeff Strain, ArenaNet (USA); - Vlad Ihora, Telia Sonora (Sweden); - Barbara Lippe, Avaloop (The Netherlands); - Pamela Kato The GamerX (USA); - Uwe Nikl, Level 3 (United Kingdom); - Matt Firor, Ultra Mega Games (USA); - Konstantin Ewald, Osborne Clark (Germany). GCDC will announce additional speakers and keynotes in the coming weeks. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Game News :: home page |