We’re stocking up on star speakers for our GamesBeat Summit 2018, which will take place at the beautiful Claremont Resort in Berkeley, California, on April 9 and April 10. Our conference is all about making games better and improving the business, and our latest speakers should help us realize this vision. Our speakers include Philip Rosedale, the CEO of virtual reality world High Fidelity and former head of Linden Lab, the creator the virtual world Second Life; Andrea Rene, host, video producer, and writer at What’s Good Games; and Aaron Loeb, the president of studios at FoxNext Games. You can get your tickets here at 30 percent off our rate using the code DEAN. Above: Philip Rosedale, CEO of High Fidelity. Image Credit: Creative Commons Rosedale will participate in a panel dubbed “The Leisure Economy,” which is about all of the ways that people are finding how to be paid to play games — such as esports athletes, game modders, and cosplayers. That panel also includes Gio Hunt, executive vice president at Blizzard Entertainment, and Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, one of the pioneers of virtual spaces and a cryptocurrency leader. Rosedale cofounded High Fidelity to make virtual reality spaces in 2013. He… Read full this story
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