Game Developers Conference San Francisco 2010

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GamesBeat@GDC Overview

GamesBeat, the conference for leading executives in the game industry will be presented at the 2010 Game Developers Conference on Wednesday March 10, 2010. Gain access to GamesBeat@GDC with a GDC All Access or Summits and Tutorials Pass.

The next GamesBeat@GDC will focus on the fate of the game platforms, where investors are putting their money in games, how big companies and brands are adapting to the growth of social and mobile gaming, new trends such as cloud-based gaming, games as a service, and the international scope of growth in games. Above all, we'll focus on the business models and strategies it takes to succeed in today's game industry.

GamesBeat@GDC will host executive-level speakers from a wide variety of companies, from the smallest startups to the biggest in the industry. We just witnessed a year of amazing changes for the game industry. Nearly a hundred game startups raised at least $600 million in venture capital in 2009. Revenues for traditional console games stalled in the U.S., but social gaming upstarts have created enormous successes on Facebook and other startups forged ahead on the iPhone. Now, lots of companies are seeking to enter those new markets, but they'll have to elbow other fast-growing upstarts out of the way.

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GamesBeat History

GamesBeat debuted in March 2009, and gained attention by focusing on the most disruptive technologies changing the industry. GamesBeat is produced by VentureBeat, the leading news site for executives wanting to understand the ramifications of today's technology developments.

Last year's successful event drew many of the industry's leaders as speakers and attracted nearly 500 top executives from throughout the games ecosystem: leading games companies, entrepreneurs, investors and press. The event also was sponsored by game industry leaders, Sony, Nvidia, Nokia Ngage, Outspark, MayField fund to name a few.

Last year's major speakers included baseball star Curt Schilling of 38 Studios, John Smedley of Sony Online Entertainment, and Seamus Blackley of Creative Artists Agency. Other speakers included Mark Pincus of Zynga, Sebastian DeHalleux of Playfish, Dennis Fong of Raptr, Lars Buttler of Trion World Entertainment, Susan Choe of Outspark, Gareth Davis of Facebook, Graham Hopper of Disney Interactive Studios, Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins, Jameson Hsu of Mochi Media, Susan Panico of Sony, Tim Chang of Norwest Venture Partners, Mitch Lasky of Benchmark Capital, and Janice Roberts of Mayfield Fund.

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Advisor

Dean Takahashi

Dean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.