Sims creator to keynote ScreenBurn festival

Posted Feb 1, 2007 at 5:01AM by Karl B. Listed in: Nintendo DS, PC Gaming Tags: BioWare, NCsoft, Raph Koster, Texas, Warren Spector, Will Wright
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Will Wright - Image 1The Sims creator Will Wright is slated to deliver a keynote speech at the ScreenBurn festival according to GamesIndustry.biz. He will be joining other notable figures and companies taking part in the event, including NCsoft, Sony Online Entertainment, Areae's Raph Koster, Warren Spector, Midway, Atari, MTV and BioWare.

The ScreenBurn festival is a gaming event recently added to the SXSW Interactive Festival. The event will also feature the ScreenBurn Arcade, 20 different panel discussions on gaming, tournaments and new technologies and games available to the public for the first time.

"We introduced ScreenBurn to the SXSW Interactive line-up in 2006, and received an overwhelmingly positive response," offered event director Hugh Forrest. "Building on that success, we added more gaming-related programming in 2007, plus will launch the two-day ScreenBurn Arcade."

SXSW Interactive takes place in Austin, Texas, March 9-18, with ScreenBurn scheduled for March 10-13.

Via Games Industry

 
 
 

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