Category Archives: Nordic Game 2008

A panel of analysts at the Nordic Game 2008 pulled no punches and labelled Microsoft’s attempts to break into the casual market as “disastrous”, Eurogamer reports.

David Cole from DFC Intelligence together with Nick Parker, who runs Parker Consulting, and an analyst from Screen Digest were all united in their condemnation of Microsoft predicting that 2008 will be a struggle for the Redmond firm.

“The trouble with Xbox 360 is it hasn’t managed to shake off this urban, irreverent adult male feel; so it hasn’t gained traction in the more casual gaming markets of mainland Europe such as France, Spain and Italy, where it’s stalled,” said Parker who rather tellingly used to work for Sony.

“And there are already rumours of Xbox 360 being delisted from certain retailers.”

Loads more diatribe from the experts through the link.

By Mike Bowden

Nordic Game’s announced that attendance for this year’s event was up 38% over last year’s to 1,200.

Delegates from more than 300 companies attended the show, which formed a platform to 110 speakers.

Press release after the link.

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In his Nordic Game keynote, Traveller’s Tales boss Jonathan Smith said that lack of proper titles for children led him to create the Lego Star Wars series, according to GI report.

“We believed that children were very badly served by the games they were being given,” he said.

“As parents at the time with children ourselves we knew that children were looking for things in games that they were rarely getting. We identified a market opportunity.”

Loads more quotes from the speech through the link.

Traveller’s Tales boss Jonathan Smith has kicked off this year’s Nordic Game by just telling attendees that the Lego Star Wars series has achieved sales of 18 million units to date.

Expect more from the Swedish show throughout the day.

The GamesIndustry.biz Network will debut at next week’s Nordic Game, the site’s announced.

The Scandinavian event will host the launch of the Network’s event section, where delegates will be able to make the most of the conference by connecting with other attendees online and arranging meetings with them at the event.

All speakers, press and delegates who have registered for full conference passes will be personally invited to take part in the Gamesindustry.biz Network community starting today. Attendees will be able to start online scheduling for meetings at the conference on Monday May 11.

Nordic Games runs from May 14-15, at the Malmö Convention Center in Malmö, Sweden.

Press release after the link.

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Siren and Silent Hill developer Keiichiro Toyama is to speak at Nordic Game 2008, the conference confirmed this morning, as will Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Ninja Theory.

The programme’s starting to look pretty good, in truth. Jet Set Radio Future guy Ryuuta Ueda, EVE Online boss Hilmar Pétursson and Age of Conan’s Jørgen Tharaldsen will also be making an appearance.

Nordic Game runs from May 14-15 this year, again at the Malmö Convention Center in Malmö, Sweden.

Press release after the link.

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Epic head Mark Rein is to speak in the business and production track at this year’s Nordic Game.

Rein will sit on a round-table discussion called Art of the Deal, which will focus on the publisher pitching process.

Othe panelists include MGS business development director Peter Zetterberg, Ross Erickson, VP acquisitions at Sierra Online, studio director Martyn Brown of Team 17, CEO Jeff Hilbert of DDM and Andy Boyes, product and business development director at Capcom.

Nordic Game 2008 takes place on 14-15 May 2008 at the Malmö Convention Center in Malmö, Sweden. Press release after the link.

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According to this, Traveller’s Tales boss Jonathan Smith will be headlining Nordic Game 2008 with a talk called “Putting the Pieces in Play”. We’re sure it’ll include all the Lego you can handle.

Rob Kay and Ryan Lesser from Harmonix are also going to be speaking, and will be bringing some “special guests”, apparently, presumably from the music world.

This year’s event takes place in Malmo, Sweden, as usual, from May 14-15

Both Edge and Next-Gen have been named as media sponsors of this year’s Nordic Game. The Future publications will join Eurogamer Network’s GamesIndustry.biz, now on its third year as a main media partner for the event, as show supporters.

Nordic Game is probably the greatest trade show in the world. It’s the most non-bullshit expo in games. And it’s in Sweden, which is always a good thing.

Nordic Game 2008 is being held on May 14-15 in Malmö. Hit the link for more details.

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