Sat, Jul 31, 2010 | 20:08 BST

Jason West and Vince Zampella to speak at QuakeCon

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Bethesda’s just revealed that ex-Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella are to speak at QuakeCon this year.

Announced rather cryptically, Bethesda’s Pete Hines and Nick Breckon revealed the news via Facebook and Twitter, respectively.

This will be the first speaking engagement for the Respawn Entertainment founders since the massive Infinity Ward blow-up with Activision, and their sacking from the studio.

Maybe Respawn’s first game will be announced. Maybe. Patcher reckons it’s a space-shooter. Maybe.

QuakeCon 2010 takes place August 12-15 at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

Hines went on to confirm Todd Howard, Harvey Smith, Emil Pagliarulo, Chris Rhinehart, Matt Carofano, John Carmack, Tim Willits and Richard Garriott as speakers for the event.

Sounds like it won’t be one to miss.

Here’s the full schedule:

Thursday August 12

12:30 PM – Cortez Room - “The World of Design” panel

Joel Burgess – Bethesda Game Studios
Matt Hooper – id Software
Neil Alphonso – Splash Damage
Todd Alderman – Respawn Entertainment

2:30 PM – Grand Ballroom - “QuakeCon Kick Off”

Todd Hollenshead welcomes QuakeCon attendees
John Carmack - Annual Keynote

5:30 PM – Grand Ballroom - “Rocket Talk”

John Carmack and Richard Garriott share their passion for rockets and space travel in this special QuakeCon presentation

Friday August 13:

11:00 AM – Grand Ballroom - “Building Blockbusters” panel

Jason West – Respawn Entertainment
Tim Willits – id Software
Todd Howard – Bethesda Game Studios
Vince Zampella – Respawn Entertainment

1:00 PM – Cortez Room - “Building Immersive Worlds and Stories” panel

Chris Rhinehart – Human Head
Emil Pagliarulo – Bethesda Game Studios
Harvey Smith – Arkane Studios
Raphael Colantonio – Arkane Studios

2:00 PM – Grand Ballroom - “Special RAGE Presentation”

Tim Willits – id Software
Matt Hooper – id Software

4:00 PM – Cortez Room - “Let There Be Sound” panel

Chris Sweetman – Splash Damage
Christian Antkow – id Software
Mark Lampert – Bethesda Game Studios
Zack Quarles – id Software

5:00 PM – Cortez Room - “The Art of the Game” panel

Matt Carofano – Bethesda Game Studios
Olivier Leonardi – Splash Damage
Stephan Martine – id Software
Viktor Antonov – Arkane Studios

Saturday August 14:

11:00am – Grand Ballroom - “Special Brink Presentation”

Paul Wedgwood, CEO of Splash Damage and Game Director of Brink will be on hand to share a presentation of the game with QuakeCon attendees.

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16 comments

Johnny Cullen
30/07/10, 9:54 pm

That’s going to be a properly mental session.

LOLshock94
30/07/10, 9:55 pm

hopefully they talk about a game which pubeless kids wont like

Crysis
30/07/10, 10:00 pm

Wonder what they have planned.. better not be another conspiracy like what happened with ActiVision, that dominated the gaming news for an annoying month, i doubt it’ll be another modern warfcare styled game, not with MoH & Battlefield under the same publisher already, i could imagine maybe a space/future themed FPS

LOLshock94
30/07/10, 10:05 pm

yeah i remember when COD came out and there were rumours that they were working on a game which was based in the future

Stephany Nunneley
30/07/10, 10:06 pm

Watch it be a fantasy RPG and blow everyone’s effing minds.

Crysis
30/07/10, 10:08 pm

well, they’ve worked on fps for the past 10 or so years, making that kinda jump would blow everyones’ effing minds

Patrick Garratt
30/07/10, 10:10 pm

Facebook game. Based on a wacky gremlin.

LOLshock94
30/07/10, 10:13 pm

i lol,d

Patrick Garratt
30/07/10, 10:16 pm

Added in a bunch more name Hines just confirmed there. Sounds like it’s going to be a good show.

#10

Crysis
30/07/10, 10:16 pm

Fcaebook should bring some popular flash games to it, i’ve tried pllaying an text based game on there, quite frankly i have 0 imagination so it seemed pointless to me, but there’s quite literally millions of flash games & thousands of good ones to choose from which would make a much better choice than mafiawars & farmville & *yawns, just thinking of them tires me.
BTW, love that part about Patcher
he’s the kinda guy where if he saw an elephant in the room, he would say “there maybe an elephant in the room”