Mar. 3 - The Italian pavilion at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the most important professional event in the world dedicated to the production of video games in progress, will be inaugurated tomorrow. The event runs until March 6, at the Moscone Convention Center. It is the first time that an Italian delegation, united under the brand Games in Italy, takes part in the GDC with its own pavilion. The Californian city welcomes 12 development studios, giving them the opportunity to showcase their work to more than 24.000 industry operators from around the world. The participating companies are Digital Tales, Foofa Studios, Forge Reply, Imagimotion, Just Funny Games, MixedBag, Studio Evil e Vae Victis e le start up innovative Bad Seed, Balzo, Mangatar and Tiny Bull Studios. The initiative was made possible thanks to the economic contribution and cooperation of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade Agency. (Red)

GAMING
The gaming market is one of the sectors of the entertainment industry that experienced the greatest growth in recent years, with a turnover that now stands at around $70 billion globally. Italy is the fourth largest market in Europe in terms of consumption, but still doesn’t appear in the list of leading video games producers. Game development in Italy is currently undergoing a period of great creativity: there are over 100 companies throughout the country, most of which were founded in the last 3 years. These are young entrepreneurs (over 30% are under 30 years), with a predominantly technical and scientific training and a strong international vocation: 98% of Italian developers distribute their products to Europe, 91% to North America, followed by South America (71%) and Asia / Pacific (65%).