With GameCity currently knocking the ball out of the park via its excellent GCNights series, and Eurogamer lining up another massive expo, it's already a great year for UK video game events. But a great year just got better. Channel 4 and media agency Pixel Lab have just announced the brilliantly named World of Love, a one day indie gaming conference to be held at the TV channels HQ in London on June 25.
The speaker list is basically a who's who of my favourite indie developers. Terry Cavanagh, the brilliant coder behind VVVVVV and Don't Look Back, will be there, as will hotly tipped new studio Hello Games, no doubt discussing its motorbike stunt game, Joe Danger. Then there's Simon Oliver, the clever chap responsible for early iPhone smash, Rolando (now running Hand Circus). And wonderfully, Stephen Lavelle, the experimental game design genious behind the likes of Atopeosis and Starfeld. Wow.
Tickets are £65 each and available here.
There's actually been a spate of interesting game event announcements this week.
If you're prepared to travel further afield there's the Nordic Game conference which takes place in Malmö, Sweden and Copenhagen, Denmark, from April 27-30 and is set to feature Guillaume de Fondaumiere, Co-CEO of Quantic Dream, Adrien Cho from Bioware and Jeppe Carlsen form indie studio Playdead, responsible for hugely promising monochrome XBLA puzzler, Limbo.
Slightly further afield there's the 3D Gaming Summit at the Hilton in Los Angeles on April 21-22. Dedicated almost entirely to stereoscopic 3D titles, speakers include Mark Rein of Epic Games, Jon Landau, Producer of Avatar and intriguingly Jesse Stern, Writer of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Does that mean Modern Warfare 3 is going 3D? That's, of course, assuming that there will be anyone left at Infinity Ward to make another game...
