Our previously announced speakers include:Ĭhris Heatherly, head of social and mobile at Disney Interactive. This year, we’ll have as many as 80 speakers and many well-known moderators over the course of two days. We’re screening our speakers for bold ideas, transparency, global strategies, creativity, and diversity. Our speakers show that gaming has become a global and diverse business with many intricacies and strategies. We’ll find out who’s leading and how they are winning. At GamesBeat 2015, we’ll dissect how these kings and queens are battling for gaming supremacy and growth.

It’s more complex than the fantasy world of Westeros in HBO’s Game of Thrones … and it’s happening right in front of us all.

Playing the competitive game, making alliances, prepping for new platforms like augmented and virtual reality, and surviving the incredibly fast change in gaming right now is more difficult than ever. In each of these powerful realms, companies are fighting to grow fast, to come out on top - and to cross boundaries to rule more than one empire. Gaming has many kingdoms: mobile, console, PC online, geographic, and more. In an interview at that time, Sweeney told me that business and technology were “intricately linked.”Ĭlearly, we’ll have no shortage of things to talk about.Īt our event, we’ll get him to address our theme: A Game of Thrones. Summit industry event in Las Vegas, Sweeney was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. That decision cost Microsoft more than a billion dollars, but Sweeney argued it was the right thing because it would enable game developers to create much more beautiful games.Īt the 2012 D.I.C.E. Sweeney was one of the key advisers to Microsoft in its decision to add more main memory to the Xbox 360. Both times, he was very influential in how the machines turned out. I interviewed him more than a decade ago for a book on the making of the Xbox and once again for a book on the making of the Xbox 360 game console. And Sweeney has been pretty consistent as an advocate for game developers. And earlier in the summer, Sweeney expressed his empathy for independent game developers, noting how he wants to see a world where gaming isn’t dominated by a handful of titles but instead has a healthy ecosystems with many different types of thriving games.Įpic is in a massive fight with rival Unity Technologies for the hearts and minds of game makers.

Sweeney is also quite passionate about making life easier for game developers, even as Epic’s Unreal game engine enables them to make more and more sophisticated graphics and physics effects in games.

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