European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

April 9, 2009 -

The European Parliament will convene a video game conference next week, reports Edge Online.

The gathering will promote the economic and cultural benefits of the game business. Dutch MEP Jules Maaten (left), who is coordinating the event, said:

Europe has to encourage the further development of creative sectors like the games industry. Everybody would gain from such additional focus: the developers, the economy, but also the consumer and I’m advocating an EU programme for the stimulation of the European games industry.

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Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by nightwng2000 on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 10:53.

Would LOVE to see Germany's response to this, considering their recent desires to BAN various media products. I don't see Australia among the list of states of the Union, so at least there's one less problem for them to deal with.

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Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by Azhrarn on Fri, 04/10/2009 - 03:53.

While Australia is technically a part of the Brittish Commonwealth, they have very little to do with Europe, which is on the wrong side of the planet for them.
Austria is a different matter ofcourse.

Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by MartyB on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 14:41.

Since when is Australia in Europe?

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Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by Praetorian on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 10:38.

?yay? Hopefully this won't be one of those meetings about having more meetings.

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Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by Chaplain99 on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 10:05.

...yay? Great for business?

Is this more like E3, or just a business-related conference?

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Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by DarkSaber on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 10:28.

It's an EU conference, expect boredom and lots of people abusing expense accounts.

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Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by JustChris on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 13:29.

Heh, I pictured it as business and political-mided people trying to grasp the technical understanding of the creation of games. "Today we are going to discuss what polygon count means and why is it so important..."

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Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by killatia on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 10:07.

From the sounds of it its business-related, though i won't be surprised if some nut job comes in screaming "voilent games shall kill us all."

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Re: European Parliament to Hold Video Game Conference

Submitted by lordlundar on Thu, 04/09/2009 - 19:14.

So Vas and most of the German political body aren't invited to the point they have to crash the conference?

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