The growing Seattle, Wash. conference will be hosting numerous sessions hosted by figures from companies such as Turbine, Trion World Network, Neowiz, NCsoft, NetDevil, Big Fish Games, ArenaNet and other firms.

Sessions will focus on relationships between East and West online game development, targeting the mass market, payment structures, online console game development, and other subjects.

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