Game Developers Conference gains additional speakers

The CMP Game Group, organiser and host of the annual Game Developers Conference, has revealed fresh details regarding the guest speakers at the 2006 event, to be held in San Jose in March.

A number of renowned and much respected figures from around the world will be joining the existing line-up of industry luminaries, which currently includes gaming legends Peter Molyneux and Will Wright.

Discussing the challenges of "Taking Games Beyond Consoles" will be Square-Enix president Yoichi Wada, making a rare appearance in the West. Ultima creator Richard Garriott will be providing some "Lessons From The World of MMOs" and Tim Sweeney from Epic Games will deliver a talk on "Building a Flexible Game Engine".

Additional speakers include Wideload's Alex Seropian on "Creating Stubbs The Zombie with the Wideload Model". Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Phantagram's Sangyoun Lee will present "Living 99 Nights: An Xbox 360 Post-mortem".

The five day event, featuring seminar and conference tracks, networking events and round-table discussions, will take place from the 20th-24th March at the San Jose Civic Auditorium.

The event will draw to a close to the sound of a new concert, celebrating classic and current videogame music and accompanied for the event by the Symphony Silicon Valley orchestra. The concert marks the first of a new wave of performances from composers Tommy Tallarico and Jack Wall, tickets and information for which will be available shortly.

For a full programme of events, speakers list and conference booking details, interested parties should visit the GDC website.