The 2010 Game Developers Conference Europe Opens Call for Submissions

Europe's Premier Development Conference Soliciting Submissions to Present Lectures and Panel Sessions Now Through April 23

BERLIN, March 24, 2010 - UBM TechWeb Game Network, organizers of the industry-leading Game
Developers Conference(R) (GDC), have announced that submissions are now open
for the 2010 Game Developers Conference Europe. The event, taking place
Monday through Wednesday August 16-18, 2010 at the Cologne Congress Center
East in Cologne, Germany, will once again run alongside gamescom to present
the leading game industry event for developers, consumers, publishers and
trade professionals. The event is soliciting session proposals now through
Friday, April 23 via the official GDC Europe website:
www.GDCEurope.com.

Lectures and panel proposals are being solicited from the international
game developer community for all five of this year's conference tracks, which
include Business & Management, Game Design, Production, Technology, and
Visual Arts. To read more about the conference topics and the submission
guidelines please visit: gdceurope.com/conference/c4p/index.html.

By once again pairing GDC Europe with gamescom, Europe's leading consumer
and industry show, the conference can offer content to address the
development community at a central location in the heart of Europe and
command the critical mass of the European games sector. The event marks a
return for the successful conference, which in 2009, its first year, saw more
than 1,500 participants, including 130 international speakers, 40 exhibitors
and 240 media representatives. With the growing expansion of German and
European developers focused on online and browser-based games, GDC Europe
will focus one day of the event, August 17, to cover social networks and
online games, as well as key emerging markets in the region. In conjunction
with this new focus, GDC Europe will also provide a major platform for online
game companies to host press conferences on the second day of the event.

"Last year's show proved to be a raging success, with content and
sessions presented by some of Europe's most important industry figures," said
Frank Sliwka, Vice President of European Business Development and Event
Director of GDC Europe. "Once again we look to the expertise and talent of
the international game developer community to provide the amazing content
that makes GDC Europe the leading industry event in Europe."

For more information on GDC Europe visit: www.gdceurope.com.

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    MEDIA CONTACT:
                        Brian Rubin
                        fortyseven communications
                        +1-212-391-4707
                        brian@fortyseven.com

                        Susanne Tenzler-Heusler, Europe
                        +49(0)173-3786601
                        kontakt@brandvorwerk-pr.de

    GDC EUROPE CONTACT:
                        Frank Sliwka, VP European Business
                        Development
                        +49(0)171-1288898
                        frank.sliwka@ubm.com

                        Ben Veechai, North America
                        +1-415-947-6280
                        ben.veechai@ubm.com

Media, Brian Rubin of fortyseven communications, +1-212-391-4707 , brian at fortyseven.com; or Susanne Tenzler-Heusler, Europe, +49(0)173-3786601, kontakt at brandvorwerk-pr.de; or GDC Europe, Frank Sliwka, VP European Business, +49(0)171-1288898, frank.sliwka at ubm.com; or Ben Veechai, North America, +1-415-947-6280, ben.veechai at ubm.com, all for UBM TechWeb Game Network