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."

Wood conceived gamingSPARK as an addition to the annual SPARKcon festival and lined up speakers as well as sponsors. The business development manager at Durham-based Themis Group, which publishes the gaming web site "The Escapist," magazine is so pleased that she hopes to put on another event in 2010.

"Overall, we felt the event was a great success and received very positive feedback from the antedees, participants, and volunteers," Wood explained. "We are extremely grateful to The Escapist, GameFrog, Alpha Marketing, Integrated Audio Video, Triangle Game Initiative, and SPARKcon.

Video game development is one of the most important elements of the creative community residing in the Triangle, and we were extremely pleased to have GamingSPARK take its rightful place in SPARKcon."

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