CHAPEL HILL -- The stereotype of video game players as young, brainy loners -- usually male -- no longer applies, two directors of game design companies told an audience during a panel discussion at UNC on Wednesday.
Events
The Triangle is home to numerous businesses that are part of the billion-dollar mobile app industry.
Join us for an All-Star panel featuring some of the area's most successful mobile app developers and service providers.
Join us at the 2009 Internet Summit November 4-5th held in the Raleigh Convention Center in downtown Raleigh, NC for a panel discussion featuring local industry leaders on "Gaming and Immersive Learning. Featured panelists include:
SPARKcon, an annual festival in the capital city designed to celebrate the Triangle's creative spirit, is adding the region's growing videogame industry to the mix this year.
Call the new effort GamingSPARK - and it should be fun with games, as well as emerging technology on display.
Just as Megan Wood hoped, last weekend's gamingSPARK brought a lot of attention to the Triangle's emerging video game industry.
Wood tells The Skinny that some 400 people participated in the various game and accessory-related events as well as a live tournament featuring Cary-based Epic Games' multi-million seller "Gears of War 2."
Local students and video game developers will show off their latest projects for the first ever gamingSPARK. The list includes a broad range of categories including Serious, Casual, Mobile, and Student. These games will all take the spotlight September 18 at 5 p.m. at Urban Design Center located in downtown Raleigh on the corner of Fayetteville and Hargett Street.
In Raleigh on September 4, 2009 - 2 Bit Sho features work by artists from and inspired by the Triangle's game industry.
An event totally dedicated to locally created video games! This year's event will feature games created locally in the following categories Casual Games, Simulation/Serious Games, Mobile Games, and Student Games.
Join the North Carolina Symphony on Saturday, July 11 at 8:30pm at Koka Booth Amphitheatre for a performance featuring award-winning music from a catalogue of blockbuster video game titles, and outstanding graphics projected on large screens about the orchestra.
Icarus Studios will be hosting the Triangle assembly of the Global Game Jam (GGJ) this weekend in its state-of-the-art motion capture studio.