BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Players Flock to Vancouver Gaming Summit


Sneak Peek's Michael Stevens reporting from Vancouver's Sheraton Wall Centre:


May 3rd and 4th, gamers, programmers and developers crowded Vancouver's downtown, Sheraton Wall Centre for the "Vancouver International Gaming Summit", focusing on the future of video gaming.

Key note speakers included Roy Armes of Electronic Arts, Canada (noted as top games publisher in BC), and Alexander Seropian from Wideload Games and Bungie Studios.

General theme of the Summit was to refine the global perspective on game development for new console technologies, with programmers, artists, game designers and producers the target audeince.

More than 150 game -related companies currently operate out of BC