This past week, over 300 of the video game industry’s biggest and brightest names gathered together at the NY Games Conference to discuss (yup, you guessed it) games: where they’re at, where they’re headed, and everything in between. Located at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage on September 25-26, the conference left no stones unturned regarding today’s hottest game topics, and I was there to watch it all unfold.

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This past week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Ned Sherman of Digital Media Wire regarding this week’s upcoming NY Games Conference. I’m hitting the Big Apple soon to cover the event, but in the meantime, take a look at this industry pro’s insight. Ned had some intriguing news regarding what to expect from the conference, as well as the future of gaming in general.

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There are a slew of reasons we’re excited about going to the LA Games Conference next week, but one I hadn’t even considered was the possibility of playing games with celebrities. Ned Sherman, CEO and publisher of Digital Media Wire, which organizes and runs the conference, planted this dreamy seed in my mind on Monday when he told the story of Vin Diesel wandering into the 2006 event: “That was pretty wild, totally unplanned and unanticipated. We were hosting a gamers’ tournament and this event was being done at the Pacific Design center…so it was our first LA Games Conference event, and all of a sudden he just walks into the room and says, ‘I hear you guys are playing games out here, can I play?’ and he sat down and played games for an hour or two.”

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