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Gamelab 360º will Look into New Business Models and How Videogames Lead the Landing of Cultural Industries in the New Digital Economy
At this edition, Gamelab launches Gamelab 360º, a new track that has the support of the Dirección General de Política e Industrias Culturales del Ministerio de Cultura and the Instituto Catalán de Industrias Culturales (ICIC). The scope of this track …
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Would you like to find out how Daniel Kaplan has managed to get 8 million users to play “Minecraft”, the indie title that has broken all the rules?
Kaplan, responsible for business development at Mojang, will share the secrets of Minecraft’s success – the online indie title that launched in 2009 with a beta version and now boasts over eight million registered users. Today, Minecraft has more than …
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Siobhan Reddy and ‘LittleBigPlanet’ – User experience as an added value for educational games
Siobhan Reddy, director of the Media Molecule studio, creators of the innovative and successful “LittleBigPlanet” franchise, will share details of this highly acclaimed title with Gamelab 2011 attendees. In the videogame, players can generate items, stages and levels and this …
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Gamelab would like to thank all those who supported Shigeru Miyamoto’s candidacy to the Prince Of Asturias Award in Communications and Humanities
The jury for the Prince of Asturias Award in Communications and Humanities has announced their decision today, and the award goes to The Royal Society. As official promoters of the candidacy of Shigeru Miyamoto we would like to congratulate the …
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Hideo Kojima: Recipient of Honorary Award by the Academy of the Arts and Interactive Science
Hideo Kojima, one of the most influential creators in the videogame world, will be presented with the Honorary Award by the Academy of the Arts and Interactive Science at Gamelab 2011…
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Native Prime and Vadejuegos.com, new collaborators with Gamelab 2011
Native Prime, a multilingual game localization company, and Vadejuegos.com, an online magazine focused on videogames, are the latest collaborators to join the 7th edition of the Spanish Game Conference Gamelab 2011. Native Prime, which is comprised of a group of …
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Louis Castle and Zynga. Back to the Future of Videogames
The legendary founder of Westwood Studios (Command & Conquer) and key collaborator of Steven Spielberg in his incursion into videogames (Boom Blox), is back in the news after making the leap into social gaming as Vice President of Zynga (Farmville, …
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Bitoon Games bring its own vision about the present and future of digital content distribution and free2play market to Gamelab
Fernando Piquer, CEO at Bitoon Games, will come this year to Gamelab to talk about the digital content distribution in international markets, and the Free2Play and item selling business models. Based on his wide experience and on the recently release …
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Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto repeats the candidacy to the Prince of Asturias Award in Communications and Humanities
For the second consecutive year, Gamelab is proposing Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto as a candidate, being one of the most influential videogame creators in history. Mr. Miyamoto, creator of several Nintendo franchises such as Mario, Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda …
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The future of social gaming by Richard A. Bartle
Professor at Essex University, Richard A. Bartle will be one of the guests in Gamelab. In his intervention, the creator of MUD, the first virtual world, will speak about game-user interaction, how has it been, how will it be it’s …
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