Tomorrow, I depart for the annual Game Developers Conference. I believe this will be my eighth or ninth pilgrimage to the mecca of game development. It has been a crazy final week of prep and now I’m just looking forward to getting there, and getting it all over with ;)

Monday and Tuesday should be REALLY exciting at the IGDA’s Business Summit. Build up for the event has been strong, and private industry insider mailing lists have been on fire with discussions catalyzed by Jason Rubin’s recent DICE rant. It is going to be fun!

As always, the Choice Awards are a big highlight. I’m a bit nervous, as I’m doing the opening/welcome speech. Ack, I hate reading off teleprompters… Anyway, this is always a great event, that everyone enjoys. Last year was truly special, with the audience practically in tears when the family of the late Gunpei Yokoi accepted his posthumous Lifetime Achievement honor.

Other sessions I am looking forward to are:

OK, enough yammering, I need to iron some cloths and buy a new pair of Nike Air MAX runners!