GamesIndustry International acquires GameHorizon conference

GamesIndustry International acquires GameHorizon conference

Tue 11 Sep 2012 9:00am GMT / 5:00am EDT / 2:00am PDT
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Conference and business network to return; details of 2013 showing in December

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GamesIndustry International has acquired executive conference and business network GameHorizon.

The event has been successfully running for the past five years and features top industry executives - 2012's line-up chaired by Charles Cecil featured sessions from Unity's David Helgason, Torsten Reil of NaturalMotion, CCP's David Reid and Eidos life president Ian Livingstone.

"GameHorizon has established a reputation for being one of the best venues for games industry executives to hear about the latest developments in the business and network with their peers. We're excited to be taking on the brand and look forward to announcing our plans for it soon," said Rupert Loman, MD of Eurogamer Network, which publishes GamesIndustry International.

More details on the future of the GameHorizon conference will be unveiled at a special networking event taking place in Newcastle on December 5, in association with Game Republic.

6 Comments

robert troughton
Managing Director

Pitbull Studio Limited

Excellent news! GameHorizon is a great conference - maybe with GI.biz behind it we can see more of the Southern developers attending :-) ... it's much more laid back than Develop Conf - more about the people, I reckon.

Posted:9 months ago

#1

Ben Furneaux
Lead Designer

Turbulenz Limited

How does one go about acquiring a conference? Did you kick down the doors and storm in armed with guns, legal documents and a biro?

Posted:9 months ago

#2

Rupert Loman
Founder & CEO

Gamer Network

Something like that!

Posted:9 months ago

#3

Lee Hutchinson
CEO

Double Eleven Limited

Nice one, I depend on gameshorizon as one of my studios parties :-) we generally average about 20 attendees.. Rupert, we've supported GH for the past 2 years so give me a shout when your ready to talk in more detail about the conf.

Posted:9 months ago

#4

Rupert Loman
Founder & CEO

Gamer Network

I certainly will, cheers Lee.

Posted:9 months ago

#5

Dr. Chee Ming Wong

Opus Artz Ltd

If GH is more relevant that e current crop of Develop lectures and talks, then I am sure the southern counties will turn up for sure.
However there is only so much mobile, social, casual talks/ postmortems, monetization one can physically handle and a good platform agnostic, back to basics look at making solid ames are surely a good formula for universal appeal

Posted:9 months ago

#6

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