BioWare Doctors headline Expo sessions

By Tom Phillips Published 2 September, 2011

Battlefield! Assassin's! id! Career Fair!

BioWare Doctors Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will headline Eurogamer Expo 2011's developer sessions with a keynote panel discussing upcoming MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The BioWare chiefs take the stage midday on Saturday.

Eurogamer can also now announce an array of other developer sessions, including an Assassin's Creed Revelations presentation by Ubisoft Montreal, at 1pm Saturday.

Tim Willits will return to the Expo with daily presentations celebrating 20 years of id Software, the developer behind Doom, Quake and Rage. Panels take place 4pm Thursday, midday Friday and 3pm Saturday.

Witcher 2 developers CD Projekt RED will present a walkthrough of 2012's Xbox 360 version and the new v2.0 update for PC on Sunday at 2pm, while ArenaNet will take the stage at 1pm Friday to show off more of forthcoming MMORPG Guild Wars 2.

Also confirmed? DICE exec Karl Magnus Troedsson will talk Battlefield 3 at 1pm Thursday, while Human Head Studios also returns with a Prey 2 panel 3pm Thursday and Friday.

For those looking to break into the games industry, this year's huge Career Fair is bigger and better than ever.

Friday's keynote panel will feature Miles Jacobson, director of Football Manager developer Sports Interactive, while Saturday's headline panel includes Paulina Bozek, BAFTA Award-winning creator of the SingStar franchise.

And for the Eurogamer faithful there's your annual chance to meet the Eurogamer team and ask us awkward questions we'll try our best to duck out of.

The complete Career Fair sessions listing lies below:

Friday

  • 1.30 - Careers in Games: Programming
  • 2.30 - Keynote Panel: "Games Careers and Education" with Miles Jacobson
  • 3.30 - Careers in Games: Design with Uncharted's Richard Lemarchand
  • 4.30 - Search for a Star: Finding the next games programming superstar!
  • 5.30 - Ask Eurogamer: Meet Team EG! Ask us questions!

Saturday

  • 1.30 - Careers in Games: Art & Animation
  • 2.30 - Keynote Panel: "Games Careers and Education" with Paulina Bozek
  • 3.30 - Meet the Games Recruiters: Careers advice from the frontline
  • 4.30 - Careers in Games: Production & QA

That's all in addition to the Ninja Gaiden 3, Uncharted 3, Dark Souls dev sessions plus OnLive and PlayStation Vita presentations already scheduled!

Eurogamer will be announcing even more developer sessions and games throughout the coming weeks.

Want in? Get tickets from eurogamerexpo.com.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 8 months ago

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  • Monkey_Chops #1 9 months ago

    I seriously doubt I'll have a chance to play any games at the Saturday Expo. All the Developer Sessions look great!

  • TeeHee #2 9 months ago

    > BioWare's Doctors headline Expo sessions

    Give it to us straight, doc. How far has the COD spread? they'll never recover will they...

  • lockload #3 9 months ago

    Looks like ill be going straight to the queue when i get there at 11!

  • Hindle #4 9 months ago

    Post deleted at 23:04:43 04-04-2012

  • TOOTR #5 9 months ago

    Very impressive lineups! Good work to the EG team beavering away on all this. Kudos!

  • Shikasama #6 9 months ago

    Ask them what it was like to work on the sequel to World of Warcraft

  • TruSmiles #7 9 months ago

    Will there be any career advice for actual Uni students or graduates? Last time I was there, it was all just really basic stuff, like "This is what a programmer does, this is what an animator might do when they grow up" etc.

  • gremly #8 9 months ago

    #6 Cant be a sequel. It looks fun :D

  • TheDifficult3rdAlbum #9 9 months ago

    @TruSmiles

    The Career Fair Sessions are aimed at a wide audience, whether it be experienced professionals who want specific advice, students just starting out or recent graduates looking for their first job.

    The Q&A format also means that rather than listening to prepared talks or presentations, you will be able to steer the debate by having the opportunity to ask your own questions and interact with those on stage directly.

    It would be great to see you there, especially if you want to get something specific out of the event.

  • reelbigkris #10 9 months ago

    Is the career fair only going to be on friday/ saturday? I'm only about on the thursday. Thanks

  • Daeltaja #11 8 months ago

    Damn, hadn't realized there were so many developer sessions.. Particularly interested on the career ones.. Definitely attending next year. Will be travelling from Dublin to attend!