Is GDC a viable way to get into the videogame industry today?
This is a great show because you get the full spectrum, all the way from an intern who wants to get into the business to top-level executives who might be at a giant party together or in the elevator together. That’s what really tickles me and I like to see. When you go to a conference like DICE, it’s all designers, producers, journalists and executives. I never know when somebody comes up to me if it’s an executive producer at a studio or a programmer who has a pet project at the Independent Games Festival. I think this show has accessibility to this industry that you don’t see anywhere else in entertainment, and I think it’s a great thing. What role do you see the Unreal Engine 3 technology playing in giving people a new avenue of getting into the games business? If you look at the mod support that we provide, people can make a mod with Unreal Tournament 3 on the PC and then share it with people on the PS3, which is a first for the industry. I get e-mails from people every day asking
