Westwood College Hosting Gathering of Video Game Legends June 25

June 24, 2011

The third annual Gathering of Video Game Legends and the fifth annual 2D Game Development Awards will take place June 25 (tomorrow) at the Anaheim Campus of Westwood College (1551 S. Douglass Road, Anaheim, California). Every year the college brings together the interactive entertainment industry’s most accomplished video game professionals to share their experiences on getting started in the business. Attendees get to interact with these legends, play video games, attend workshops, enjoy keynote speeches and learn about a career in the video game industry.

This year's Gathering of Video Game Legends will feature Voldi Way, Tyrannical Overlord and founder of Way Forward; Tommy Tallarico, co-founder of Video Games Live; Tina Kowalewski, Director, External Development at Sony Computer Entertainment America; Noah Dudley, CCO of Realities Unlimited; Rusty Buchert, Executive Producer of WhiteMoon Dreams; Ru Weerasuriya, Vice-President of Creative Development and co-founder of Ready at Dawn Studios; Kevin Brown, Art Development Manager at Sony Computer Entertainment America; Justin Lloyd, Chief Evolutionary Officer and founder of Infinite Monkey Factory; John Say, founder of Say Design; John Cooney, Head of Game Development at Armor Games; Harvard Bonin, Senior Producer at Sony Computer Entertainment; Feargus Urquhart, CEO and co-founder of Obsidian Entertainment; David Perry, CEO of Gaikai, Inc.; Dave “Fargo” Kosak, game designer at Blizzard Entertainment (and former co-worker - ed.); Daniel McNeely, Team Member at Armor Games; Cecil Kim, Lead Concept Artist at Sony Computer Entertainment; Bill Roper, Game Designer and Host on Bullet Proof Radio; and Giovanni Luis, Manager, Technical Art Group, Sony Santa Monica.

The event takes place Saturday, June 25, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For more details, check out www.westwood.edu.

Thanks to Tommy Tallarico for the tip via Twitter.

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Sleaker: @PHX Corp, I can't take a person seriously that is less frightened at the possibility of privacy issues, and more scared about controller feedback technology05/25/2013 - 11:35am

PHX Corp: http://www.unwinnable.com/2013/05/24/trigger-warning/ Trigger Warning05/25/2013 - 6:37am

beemoh: Unless that pic of a Kinect taped to the underside of a phone is a joke05/25/2013 - 1:58am

beemoh: Kinect being used in prototype to stop people walking into people while texting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-2263173105/25/2013 - 1:57am

Cecil475: @hellfire7885 - Makes me want to support Nintendo even more.05/24/2013 - 4:49pm

hellfire7885: Man, EA seems to be determined to destroy the Wii U ,and the evidently are so arrogant as to believe not making games for it will do that.05/24/2013 - 4:45pm

DorthLous: Pwahahahha http://www.destructoid.com/wii-u-sales-drastically-spike-after-xbox-one-presentation-254449.phtml#LlG8HEYbQj2krql5.0105/24/2013 - 2:23pm

james_fudge: she gets no credit until she employs some common sense. - 2 credits for her.05/24/2013 - 11:22am

Andrew Eisen: To Stender's credit, she did unmoderate my most recent comment within a day's time. There's even a couple other replies. None from her though.05/24/2013 - 11:18am

james_fudge: apparently gamers are all 14 - 21 years-olds living in basements according to her way of thinking...05/24/2013 - 11:11am

ZippyDSMlee: EZK: 0_o thier video card chipset is at the very least 3 versions behind the top PC video card.......05/24/2013 - 7:38am

MechaTama31: "You just wouldn't understand how my parenting preferences are more important than everybody else's freedoms."05/24/2013 - 7:37am

DorthLous: I love how she plays the "I'm a parent, you're a gamer, you couldn't understand" card... I'm a parent and I find her position despicable...05/23/2013 - 4:16pm

E. Zachary Knight: She didn't address your questions because she doesn't have any answers.05/23/2013 - 3:38pm

Andrew Eisen: I replied to her comment. Maybe in a few weeks I'll get a reply.05/23/2013 - 3:24pm

Thomas Riordan: @Andrew Eisen To what bowling alley does she go that puts sexual images in the faces of 6 year olds?05/23/2013 - 3:17pm

Andrew Eisen: Well, it took a month but Linda Stender finally replied to me... and didn't address a single one of my questions. http://aswlindastender.com/2013/04/23/follow-up-video-games-and-their-effect-on-children/05/23/2013 - 3:13pm

Imautobot: Also, from a tech perspective the PS4 is apparently already winning. http://bgr.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-vs-playstation-4-specs/05/23/2013 - 3:12pm

Imautobot: Sony's PS4 motto should be "We play games." Microsoft's should be "We play games, when we're not rewinding your tapes."05/23/2013 - 3:11pm

Andrew Eisen: Oh look, Dying Light was just announced For Everything But Wii U. That's 73.05/23/2013 - 2:06pm

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