NEWS Gibbs and Twist join LGC’s line-up of leaders GAME CEO to discuss next-gen retail at November event Early bird pricing for this year’s conference ends today
MARTYN GIBBS will deliver the opening keynote at next month’s London Games Conference.
The GAME CEO will join leaders from the likes of Twitter UK, PlayStation and Google to talk about the next-generation of specialist retail.
He will examine how the evolving digital content landscape is re-defining business strategy through deeper customer
knowledge, relationships and engagement.
Meanwhile, UKIE boss Jo Twist will deliver the event’s closing remarks on the place for London and the UK in global games development and publishing. London Games
Conference takes place on the eve of the new console
launches, on November 13th at One Wimpole Street in London.
London Games Conference is the only event to offer a comprehensive view of the entire games market.
“ by Christopher Dring
THE UK eSports scene is seriously lagging behind Europe, North America and Asia, says UK events organiser Gfinity.
The firm is one of the companies flying the flag for eSports in Britain, and its next event – G2 – kicks off this week (Saturday October 12th)at the London Film Museum in Covent Garden.
www.mcvuk.com
Today is the last day to secure an LGC ticket at the early bird rate of £199. Next week tickets will cost £269.
It is the only event to offer a comprehensive view of the entire games market, covering how to make and market a hit game, from inception through to launch and beyond.
To book your place go to www.londongamesconferen
ce.com, contact
Jennie.Lane@intentmedia.
co.uk, or call her on 01992 535 646.
In its five years, the focused four hour conference and following network event has attracted attendees and speakers from around the world. 300 will attend this year’s event, which features talks from 12 other influential games industry execs including analyst Michael Pachter, Sports Interactive’s Miles Jacobson, PlayStation’s Shahid Ahmad and Twitter UK chief Bruce Daisley. Event partners include Vicon, ARM, Testronic Labs and OPM. The final schedule and speaker line-up will be announced next week.
UK eSports ‘embarrassingly’ behind rest of world
“If we are being honest the status of eSports in the UK is not great,” said head of content and partner relations at Gfinity, Martin Wyatt.
“We are so far behind the rest of the EU, North America and Asia that unfortunately it has become slightly embarrassing. “That is not to say we do not have the players and the teams as we have talent in abundance. Hopefully we
The status of eSports in the UK is not great
“ Martin Wyatt, Gfinity
will be able to change that and with our first event G1 setting UK viewing records hopefully we are on the right path.
“Now with G2 and plans for 2014 being set we should be able to build on
our early success and progress the eSports infrastructure here in the UK.” The first Gfinity event took place on July 13th and 14th. It attracted 2.56m viewers over streaming services, and the firm’s website was accessed 660,000 across the period.
The next event, G2, is specifically targeted at Call of Dutyplayers with $70,000 up for grabs.
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