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The 2013 D.I.C.E. Summit kicks off today, starting with the opening keynote from the unlikely duo of Valve's Gabe Newell and Hollywood's J.J. Abrams later this morning. And then it explodes with a constant stream of talks from all the cool kids in game development today, leading up to the grand finale, the 16th D.I.C.E. Awards show, which will be hosted by Chris Hardwick. They were kind enough to let me sit in and listen this week. I want to get them all drunk and have them tell me about the Xbox 7000 or whatever it is. As for who is here, want me to namedrop? Randy Pitchford from Gearbox? Or how about David Cage? Jenova Chen from thatgamecompany is also here, as is Warren Spector, though the latter isn't taking interviews. I already mentioned Gaben, but I will again as he is this year's Hall of Fame Inductee. It's like they kicked out all of the bros here at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and replaced them with game pros. No bros -- pros. See the full list of guests below. J.J. Abrams, writer, director and producer, and opening keynote headliner Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve Corporation, 2013 AIAS Hall of Fame inductee, and opening keynote headliner Dan Connors, CEO and co-founder of Telltale Games Glen Schofield, co-founder and studio head of Sledgehammer Games David Cage, CEO of Quantic Dream Randy Pitchford, co-founder, owner and president of Gearbox Software Phil Larsen, CMO of Halfbrick Games David Edery, CEO of Spry Fox Julian Farrior, CEO of Backflip Studios Amir Rao, studio director for Supergiant Games Xavier Poix, managing director of Ubisoft France Jenova Chen, creative director and co-founder of thatgamecompany Jesse Schell, CEO of Shell Games and distinguished professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University Victor Kislyi, CEO and founder of Wargaming.net Dr. Ray Muzyka, CEO and founder of Threshold Impact Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian Entertainment Kiki Wolfkill, executive producer at Microsoft Game Studios/343 Industries Frank O’Connor, franchise development director at Microsoft Game Studios/343 Industries Warren Spector, veteran electronic game designer/producer Julie Uhrman, founder and CEO of OUYA Mark Stern, president Original Content at Syfy Nick Beliaeff, vice president of production at Trion Worlds, Inc. Matt Lee Johnston, video game designer and producer Raj Talluri, senior vice president of product management of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, Inc. David Ting, general manager of eSports at IGN Pro League (IPL) Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
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8:00 PM on 05.13.2013 Mass Effect spin-offs? BioWare talks potential leadsContinuing its chat with various representatives of BioWare about Mass Effect, OXM has shifted the conversation to that of spin-offs. With Shepard's trilogy over with, who might the developers want to step up as the driving f...
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