Ichiro Otobe, chief strategist at Square Enix, will open the Serious Games Summit GDC with a keynote address Monday, March 5, at 9am. Otobe's talk, titled "Serious Games Squared," will detail the efforts, strategies, and risks that went into Square Enix's entry in the serious games sector. Otobe will also discuss the company's approach to reconcile commercial entertainment economics with the realities, challenges, and opportunities of the serious games industry. The session will also feature demos of prototype games and titles currently under development. View the session description here.

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The SGS GDC Advisory Board and the content team at CMP have now announced approximately 70% of the sessions for the upcoming Serious Games Summit conference. SGS GDC 2007 will take place Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 6 at the Moscone Convention Center North in San Francisco. Read on to see a short list of highlighted sessions and to find the link to the over 30 approved sessions.

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ABC News Now: Ahead of the Curve program featured two segments talking about Serious Games in the lead up to the recent Serious Games Summit D.C.

Jamil Moledina, GDC's Conference Director, and Jerry Heneghan, CEO of Virtual Heroes, were featured as were two recent Serious Games, one focused on Mars and one in the medical field.

Click here to see the video and hear the latest trends in serious games.

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