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Game On! Games and Brands sponsored by Nokia and JWT

Traditional games companies are embracing social media, social gaming market is set to hit over $1bn this year and brands are combining game mechanics and social media to drive campaigns. Join the discussion with experts from Wired, JWT London and Nokia.

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Date: 9 February 2011
Location: The Design Council, UK

GameHorizon 2011

The GameHorizon conference is Europe's leading event for international game executives. A two-day conference featuring the most creative, entertaining and inspirational speakers from the games and entertainment industry.

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Date: 28 June 2011
Location: The Sage Gateshead, UK

GameHorizon 2010 Speaker Videos Published with Peter Molyneux, Michael Acton Smith, Charles Cecil

GameHorizon Conference 2010 by Codeworks Connect

GameHorizon, one of the UK's leading conferences tackling the business of games has just published the videos from this year's conference. 

Speakers included Peter Molyneux on Monetising Innovation, Michael Acton Smith from Mind Candy explaining how Moshi Monsters reached 20 million users and Charles Cecil from Revolution looking at "The Games Industry v William Hogarth".

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Win Chelsea vs Fulham Football Tickets from Social Gaming Summit London 2010

Making Google Search A Social Game by Cambodia4kids.org Beth Kanter

Two new conferences arrive in London in November with the world of online gaming firmly in their sights. The Social Gaming Summit and Virtual Goods Summit take place on consecutive days at Chelsea Football Club in West London.

To set the scene with a little real-life game, we've got together with organisers Rising Media to run a competition to win two tickets to the Chelsea vs Fulham home game on Tue, 9th November.

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Virtual Goods Summit 2010

The Virtual Goods Summit focuses on the emerging market opportunity for virtual goods and economies. Once restricted to the world of online gaming, virtual goods and currencies are beginning to influence the development of social networks, community sites, and many other new and exciting markets.

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Date: 12 November 2010
Location: Chelsea Football Club, UK

Social Gaming Summit London 2010

The Social Gaming Summit is designed to provide insights into some of the emerging areas of social gaming as well as some of the fundamental concepts that are key to understanding social games and how they work. We'll cover everything from why social games work to what it takes to successfully develop and deploy a social game.

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Date: 11 November 2010
Location: Chelsea Football Club, UK

UKTI Tokyo Games Mission Application Deadline Extended to Friday

Tokyo Game Show 2007 Day 1 by VideogameVisionary.com

After lots of requests, we've managed to get The deadline for the UKTI mission to the Tokyo Games Show extended until this Friday, the 6th August.

The trip which includes industry briefings and round table sessions with experts from the Japanese games industry including leading games magazine publisher, Enterbrain also features a reception at the British Embassy.

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UKTI Announces Tokyo Games Show Mission

Tokyo Game Show 2008 by kanegen

Organised by UK Trade & Investment's Japan experts, the mission to the Tokyo Games Show (TGS)  will include expert briefings, company visits, British Embassy reception, networking events as well as the stand space, meeting room access and delegate access to the Tokyo Games Show.

The Tokyo Games Show is Japan’s main annual computer games convention, which last year saw 185,000 visitors and over 180 exhibitors (including 92 from overseas). TGS 2010 is expected to have more visitors this year with an even more international focus.

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T-1 GameHorizon Conference

Lots of Game & Watch by neofob

Following the very successful Thinking Digital event, Newcastle’s Codeworks next conference is focused on the Games Sector.

The GameHorizon Conference 29th to 30th June is billed as Europe's leading event for international game executives. A two-day conference featuring the most creative, entertaining and inspiring speakers from the games and entertainment industry.

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