Casual Connect Europe Show Announced

Everyone visiting PPG should probably know that we are big casual gamers, if not, just check out some of the reviews for just about every system we have categories for. They are fun, interesting and are a big seller right now for companies. Well, this next piece of news is right up our alley, and according to our stats, quite a few of our readers love casual games too.
The Casual Connect Europe 2010 has been announced and it will feature some big name speakers, list below.

• Nils-Holger Henning, CCO Bigpoint
• Rex Ng, CEO & Chairman, 6waves
• Randy Breen, CEO, Social Gaming Network
• David Rohrl, Executive Producer, Playdom
• John Vechey, Founder, PopCap Games
• Ben Titera, GM, RealNetworks
• Kai Bolik, CEO and Co-Founder, GameDuell
• Vincent Carrella, Director of Licensing, Shockwave.com (Nickelodeon)
• Helen Copnall, Microsoft
• Thorsten Kolisch, Managing Director, INTENIUM
• Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services
• Patrick Mork, VP, GetJar
• Robert Unsworth, VP, Digital Chocolate
• Barry O’Neill, President, Namco Bandai Networks

Casual Connect is a convention for gaming companies to get together to address concerns, trends and strategies in this genre of gaming. Some of the topics that will be covered include:

• Successful Social Game Developers You’ve Never Heard Of and The Future of Social Games
• Mobile distribution models, app stores and cross-platform publishing
• The year’s successful core casual titles
• Art production and designing virality in games
• Putting virtual economies to work in your games
• Distribution and Diversification Strategies

Casual Connect Europe 2010, which started in 2006, will be held at the Congress Center Hamburg for 3 days starting February 10th and going till the 12th. CCE is hosted by the Casual Games Association who will be bringing the convention to Seattle (July 20-22, 2010) and Kyiv (October 20-22, 2010).

For more information, please visit the Casual Connect Europe website