Wake Technical Community College will host its fourth annual DGXPO on Friday June 20 and Saturday June 21, 2008. Video game industry veterans Steve Reid and Brenda Brathwaite will give the keynote addresses.
Reid is the studio manager and one of the original founders of Red Storm. Red Storm is best known for creating Tom Clancy games and helping establish the genre of squad-based tactical shooters. The studio's most recent work is Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for Xbox 360. Reid collaborates with local and national colleges as an advisor on digital art curriculum.
Brathwaite is a 26-year veteran of the video game industry and has worked on 22 internationally known titles. She was recently featured in “The Gamasutra 20: The Most Vital Women Working In Games”. Her works include Def Jam: Icon, Playboy: The Mansion, Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes, the award-winning Wizardry series and the award-winning Jagged Alliance series of video games.
Wake Tech is located at 9101 Fayetteville Road, Raleigh, NC. The event hosts over 30 digital game industry speakers. Saturday includes many free, fun activities. For more information, please visit http://www.dgxpo.com/ or email jane@dgxpo.com.
