The organizers of GDC Europe 2009 have confirmed a lecture from Microsoft Game Studios’ European creative director Peter Molyneux during the show which takes place August 17-19th.

Lionhead co-founder Molyneux will lecture on ’Choice: The Ultimate Game Mechanic’, showing "how choice can be a compelling game mechanic so long as player decisions have tangible effects on the game world."

Others scheduled to speak are:
Half-Life 2 art director Viktor Antonov - Creating Visual Identity for Games
Crytek’s Avni Yerli - Future of Game Graphics
GameForge CEO Klaas Kersting - Monetization Models
Remedy’s Matias Myllyrinne - Creating IP
CP’s Hilmar Petursson - EVE Online and the company’s new project.

One panel has just been anounced called Ask the decision Makers: Find out What Publishers Want and How to Get What You Want. The panel will feature senior excutives from many of the major publishers.

GDC Europe will be held in conjunction with the European GamesCom industry event for consumers, publishers, and trade professionals, and will take place August 17-19 at the Cologne Congress East Center in Germany.