Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Bigpoint is an online-game publisher, content provider for large media concerns and browser-based game developer. The company’s game portfolio has achieved the same high level of quality usually associated with CDs or consoles. More than 390 employees from over 35 different nations work together in Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany at the headquarters of the world’s largest browser-game portal. Visit: www.bigpoint.net
Crytek GmbH ("Crytek") is one of the world's leading independent development studios for interactive entertainment with its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and additional studios in Kiev (Ukraine), Budapest (Hungary), Sofia (Bulgaria), Seoul (South Korea) and Nottingham (UK). Crytek is dedicated to creating exceptionally high quality video games for the PC and next-generation consoles, powered by their proprietary cutting edge 3D-Game-Technology CryENGINE.
Visit: www.crytek.com
Epic Games develops cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology. Epic's "Gears of War" and "Gears of War 2" have sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. Epic's Unreal Engine 3 is the four-time winner and Hall of Fame inductee for Game Developer's Best Engine Front Line Award. Visit: www.epicgames.com
Gold Sponsors
Intel, the world's largest silicon innovator, creates products and technologies that change the way people live, work and play. Whether it is a mobile lifestyle or a new way to enjoy entertainment at home, Intel is helping people all over the world accomplish things they never before dreamed possible.
Visit: http://www.intel.com
Silver Sponsors
Infernal Engine is the most cross-platform, full-featured foundation for building video games. Created the industry veterans at Terminal Reality (founded in 1994), Infernal Engine was designed to solve today's game development challenges. Infernal is a unified system, providing superior rendering, physics, sound, networking, and AI in one package.
Visit: www.infernalengine.com
Scaleform's technology is used to quickly and easily implement 3D hardware-accelerated menus, HUDs, animated textures, full-screen and in-game videos, mini-games and full casual games using Adobe CS4 and Flash. Scaleform GFx, the #1 game UI solution, includes a complete Flash UI framework, memory and performance analyzers, and add-ons for Flash video and IME Asian chat. Visit: www.scaleform.com
Lanyard Sponsor
InnoGames is a developer and distributor of online games. As a rapidly growing company, they currently engage 70 employees in their Hamburg headquarters in northern Germany. There are now nearly 50 million users from more than 200 countries playing the InnoGames' like Tribal Wars, The West and Grepolis.
Visit: www.innogames.de
Staff Shirt Sponsor
Osborne Clarke is a leading European law firm with offices in the UK, Germany and the USA. Its pan-European capabilities are extended through the Osborne Clarke Alliance, a joint venture of law firms with offices across six other European countries. The firm’s specialties particularly include IP, IT, Technology and Interactive Entertainment Law. Visit: www.osborneclarke.com
Wireless-LAN Sponsor
Operating since 1994 NetCologne has quickly developed into one of Germany’s most successful regional providers of telecommunications solutions. The supply of service ranges from telephone services and mobile phone network through Internet, Cable TV and data services to complex corporate networks and tailored telecommunications solutions. Visit: www.netcologne.de
Bookstore Sponsor
BreakPoint Books will host the 2010 GDC Europe Bookstore and will have onsite a wide selection of
books on game programming, game design, and digital art. Books will be available for purchase. Visit: www.breakpointbooks.com
Hardware Partner
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2008 consolidated sales of US$96 billion. Employing approximately 164,600 people in 179 offices across 61 countries, the company consists of two business units: Digital Media & Communications and Device Solutions. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. Visit: www.samsung.de
Additional Sponsors
2pay.pro is one of the biggest payment aggregators for online project, that successfully performs on the market for 6 years. We offer: vast geographical coverage, payment systems for Europe and United States, simplicity of payment for the users, comfortable pay out for the partners, more that 1 million transactions annually, representative offices in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, USA and Europe, interface in Russian, English, German and French languages, and 100% fraud protection and coverage of all risks connected with illegal actions. Join us today: 2pay or not to pay! Visit: www.2pay.pro
Twofour54º is creating a centre of excellence dedicated to Arabic content creation in the media and entertainment sector, through world-class training from twofour54º tadreeb, state-of-the-art production facilities with twofour54º intaj and supporting Arab creative entrepreneurs with venture funding from twofour54º ibtikar.
We empower businesses across all media platforms - from production, gaming, digital, animation, broadcast and publishing - to seize the media opportunity the region has to offer. Visit: www.twofour54.com
It takes serious brainpower to produce next-generation games and Canada boasts both brainy game creators and governments that make smart investments to nurture innovation and cultivate partnerships.
Canadian companies are global leaders across the entire gaming value chain – from tools development to casual games and serious games, to both mobile games and gameware development.
Visit: www.investincanada.gc.ca/eng/
The Frogster group is a Berlin-based, listed publisher of online games. Frogster focuses on the marketing and operation of Massively Multiplayer Online Games – one of the strongest growing sectors in the entertainment industry. Highlights in our current portfolio are titles like 'Runes of Magic', 'Mythos'and 'TERA'.
Visit: www.frogster.de
Ganz & Stock is a classic personnel consulting firm, specializing in the games and entertainment industry.
We work with leading enterprises in this sector and fill highly-skilled and management positions in the areas of publishing and development.
Visit: www.ganz-stock.de
Headup Games is an independently financed publisher located near Cologne, Germany. The company targets primarily at male core gamers. In close cooperation with its partners Headup Games releases high quality PC titles while putting the contentment and gaming experience of the customers first.
Visit: www.headupgames.com
Streamline Studios is an independent developer and leading provider of integrated content for AAA video games. Along with creating its own IP such as HoopWorld, Streamline engineers art for full-service solutions for game developers worldwide.
Visit: www.streamline-studios.com
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