The IVDC and GDN are proud to announce that Gamers Daily News is a new official Media Partner of the Italian Videogame Developers Conference 2010. GDN was founded in 2006 with the goal of becoming the site most responsible for the independent games industry and today welcomes more than 90,000 users each month, from over 200 countries around the world. The reason for this great success is that Gamers Daily News provides news updated in real time not only about the big names of the videogames industry, but also about developers from small and independent studios. The website publishes daily reviews, previews and interviews relating to videogame hardware and genres of the moment.

The Italian Videogame Developers Conference is the first and only conference in Italy for the videogames industy, and is the official annual summit of the IVD (Italian Videogame Developers association). Now in its 3rd year, the IVDC has become the main platform for an increasingly confident Italian games industry to present itself nationally and internationally.

Held on 3rd and 4th of December 2010, the IVDC will take place in the conference hall of the internationally respected LUISS University in Rome. The official langauge of the conference will be English, with translation into Italian optional. This two-day event is totally free to attend.

Rome is a city of beauty, culture, history and inspiration; a place where ideas become physical, a place where imagination comes to life. So where better to hold the 3rd year of the increasingly influential and inspiring Italian Videogame Developers Conference than in Rome.

Held at the lavish LUISS Guido Carla University, one of Europe’s most prestigious bastions of education, IVDC 2010 promises to surprise, educate, excite and inspire its national and international audiences.

The conference is designed for everyone with a passion for videogames; from the aspiring student, to successful studios and international publishers. The IVDC, the first and main annual Italian conference on videogames, has established itself as the premier showcase and voice of the Italian videogames industry to the world.

From its establishment in 2008 to this year, the IVDC has been proud to provide platforms for the leading figures in the global videogames industry. Speakers at this year’s IVDC include

Peter Molyneux, head of Lionhead, Phil Harrison, former CEO of Atari and Director of Sony Worldwide Studios and Avil Yerli of Crytek amongst speakers from leading Italian studios and publishers, all of whom are ready to inspire their audiences and be inspired in return.

AIOMI, the Italian Association for the Interactive Multimedia - Movement for the Videogame Culture, was born to promote, diffuse and preserve the videogame culture, intended as a form of art, human cultural expression and excellence product of the industry. The Videogame is effectively part of the collective imagination, and AIOMI fights to make it recognized, respected, studied and understood. AIOMI will therefore help any initiative to valorize the Videogame and promote its culture through any form and means. In the same way, the Association will intervene every time videogames will be object of disinformation.